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Musician Martelly Elected Haiti's Next President; Now What?
By Emily Troutman - AOL NewsMusician Michel Martelly was overwhelmingly elected the next president of Haiti, according to preliminary results announced today. Martelly received 67 percent of the votes to his opponent Mirlande Manigat's 32 percent. This percentage closely mirrored the results Martelly's campaign announced earlier in the week, based on its own analysis of the tally sheets. Final results will be announced April 16. Ramon Espinosa, AP Michel Martelly poses for a photo with supporters at a campaign rally in Gonaives, Haiti, on March 11. According to electoral officials on Monday, preliminary ...
Haiti's Election Will Be Over When This Man Says It's Over
By Emily Troutman - AOL NewsOn Tuesday, Haiti's electoral council issued the 91st communique of the election season: It was a note to advise the public that results will be delayed again. Few were surprised. Haiti's elections were first scheduled for Feb. 28, 2010. After the earthquake, new elections were organized for November. Like the "recovery," the elections have moved at a glacial pace. "I'm telling you, they don't give the results, this country is going to burn down," a Port-au-Prince voter named Serge said. Haiti's been besieged by decades of dictatorship, coups and opportunism. No one would begrudge the ...
Haiti Chooses New Leader, Hoping This One Delivers
By not in system - AOL NewsPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Haitians scarred by decades of poverty, political corruption and natural disasters cast ballots Sunday for president in hopes a new leader could do what others have not: Replace homes and schools in the earthquake-devastated capital, improve education and create some optimism for the future. Voters chose between Michel "Sweet Micky" Martelly, a popular musician who has never held public office, and Mirlande Manigat, a former first lady and senator and longtime fixture on the political scene. Voters formed what for the most part were orderly lines throughout the ...
Mariah Carey 'Embarrassed' Over Concert Performed for Gadhafis
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK -- Mariah Carey says she was unaware that she was booked to perform a concert linked to Gadhafi's clan -- and she's embarrassed "to have participated in this mess." Carey is among a handful of entertainers who were paid handsome fees to give exclusive private concerts. It was later revealed the people behind those concerts were the family of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, whose country is in an open revolt against him and who faces an investigation for possible war crimes. This week, Nelly Furtado announced she is giving the $1 million fee she was paid in 2007 to charity; Beyonce ...
Monsters and Dragons: Carnival Celebration Rises From Haiti's Ruins [Photos]
By Emily Troutman - AOL NewsJACMEL, Haiti -- Inside the broken walls of private gardens, under tents and tarps, a quiet army is poised to take the stage. The city will celebrate Carnival tonight, and artists have been working for weeks to get ready. Hundreds of papier-mache creatures wait for their debut in the streets. A half-dozen enormous crickets lay on their sides. Pharaohs and presidents are upside-down on the rubble. Diabolical masks, with faces as big as cars, sleep peacefully. In a shady town square, a dragon, 45 feet long, is covered under sheets. Jacmel is the heart of Haiti's weeks-long Carnival ...
As Haitian Men Protest, Women, Children Seek Quiet Refuge
By Emily Troutman - AOL NewsPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Haitian President Rene Preval declined to step down from office today, originally the end of his term, after the Senate previously passed a bill that allows him to extend his stay for three more months. That meant more protesting, especially around the palace, where 50,000 people are in a shantytown of shacks and the president remains wildly unpopular. In front of the palace, a few dozen angry protesters demanded his exit, threw rocks and overturned trash bins to create barricades. Today's was a dangerous but meager crowd, notable mostly for who wasn't there. Tear ...
Opinion: In Haiti, the Truth Is Often Prostituted
By Emily Troutman - AOL News(Follow Emily Troutman on Twitter for the latest updates from Haiti) PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- As Haiti's ex-President Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier turned out the lights in his room at the Hotel Karibe, Corline, an attractive 21-year-old woman, was working at the corner, a few minutes up the road. That's one version. In reality, Corline is more of a prostitute than a "working girl." Just as Duvalier is more of a visiting dictator than an "ex-president." But revisionism is part of history's game to fudge the facts, and this week in Haiti, more than ever before, mottled shades of gray are ...
A Journalist in Haiti: Year of Collecting Pain
By Emily Troutman - AOL News(Freelance journalist Emily Troutman wrote her first story on Haiti for AOL News on Jan. 16, 2010. She has reported and photographed more than 55 stories since then. Follow her on Twitter.) People in Haiti are always telling me their earthquake stories. I am prepared, but still a little surprised, when the moment arrives. The stories seem too personal. The personal is public now. We stand in hallways as they tell me. We sit at the beach. We are climbing the stairs or maybe I am just about to get out of the car. It is almost never what I would consider an appropriate time or place. Then ...
Bill Clinton's Lasting Legacy May Be Haiti's Earthquake Recovery Effort
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyBill Clinton's love for Haiti began in Arkansas. In 1975, he and wife Hillary traveled to the Caribbean nation for a delayed honeymoon. When he became president nearly two decades later, Haiti was on his early agenda, with the goal of ending the violent military dictatorship there and restoring its elected president. After Clinton left the White House, his work continued in Haiti through his Clinton Global Initiative and the United Nations. When the devastating 7.0 earthquake struck the country a year ago, on Jan. 12, Clinton traveled to the country six days later with supplies. The ...
Haiti a Year Later: Lots of 'Solutions,' Little Shelter
By Emily Troutman - AOL NewsPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- If people in L.A. all have a screenplay in their pockets, in Haiti, everyone's got a blueprint -- geodesic domes, Styrofoam cinder blocks, shipping container shacks. In the year since the earthquake, Haiti has become an architectural Eden, where no one has "plans" or "designs" -- just "solutions." There are 800,000 homeless people here, 180,000 houses damaged and $5.7 billion pledged. All two hours from Miami. American entrepreneurs appeared in Haiti just days, and sometimes, hours after the earthquake. But they weren't the only ones. Charities that never before set ...
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