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Stores Close Early as Haiti Awaits Final Results of Presidential Election
By not in system - AOL NewsPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Banks and stores closed early and people rushed to get home in the capital Wednesday as Haitians feared unrest with the expected announcement of final results from the disputed presidential election. The provisional electoral commission was scheduled to announce which two of the three front-running candidates from the November ballot would get spots in a March runoff. Preliminary results showing government-backed candidate Jude Celestin edging out popular singer Michel "Sweet Micky" Martelly set off often violent protests in December. Those figures were released late ...
Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier Detained: 5 Facts About Haiti's Ex-Dictator
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsFormer Haitian dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier was detained at a Port-au-Prince hotel by the Haitian National Police today, but it's not clear what charges he is facing. Duvalier has been living in exile in France since 1986, when he fled Haiti after a mass uprising. International human rights organizations, citing abuses that took place during his dictatorship, have called for his arrest. In a startling development, Duvalier returned to Haiti on Sunday. He offered no explanation for the sudden visit, but he held meetings with friends and associates, including relatives of Lt. Gen. ...
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 ...
Sean Penn on 1st Anniversary of Quake: 'Haiti Cannot Wait Any Longer'
By Peter W. Fulham - Politics DailyA prominent group of humanitarian activists gathered on Monday at The Brookings Institution, the Washington think tank, for a discussion on recovery efforts in Haiti one year after a devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake decimated the small island nation and its capital city, Port-au-Prince. The speakers addressed many of Haiti's most pressing crises, which now include a deadly epidemic of cholera, routine sexual violence against women and girls living in refugee camps, and a national infrastructure that remains largely in shambles. Sean Penn, the Academy Award-winning actor who runs a ...
Essay: Haiti Needs More Than Sarah Palin's Determined Grin
By Emily Troutman - AOL News
Emily Troutman has been reporting on Haiti for AOL News since January. You can follow her updates on Twitter. CABARET, Haiti (Dec. 12) -- Sarah Palin, the erstwhile politician and potential candidate for U.S. president, was off limits to the media, except Fox News' Greta Van Susteren, for most of her visit to Haiti this weekend. But Palin finally spoke briefly at a news conference today. "Haiti has been a country that has suffered in the past and is going to continue to suffer until some fundamental changes are being made here," said Palin, who was accompanying the Rev. Franklin Graham, ...
As Haiti Waits for Calm, US Senator Urges Freezing Aid
By Emily Troutman - AOL News
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Dec. 10) -- Reporting on chaos is often about the wait, as much as the action. In Haiti, waiting for things to be set on fire, waiting for United Nations troops to react, waiting for the police to pass by with their guns. Waiting for statements from officials. This afternoon, U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy, who chairs a Senate Appropriations Committee subcommittee on foreign aid, urged President Barack Obama to freeze funds to Haiti's central government, as well as suspend all U.S. travel visas for senior government officials. "Those in power there are trying to subvert the ...
Haiti: 2 Candidates Advance in Presidential Race
By not in system - AOL NewsPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Dec. 7) -- Government-backed candidate Jude Celestin and former first lady Mirlande Manigat will advance to a second-round of presidential voting in Haiti, electoral officials announced Tuesday as furious protests broke out in the capital. The matter might not be settled in the race to lead a country wracked by a cholera epidemic and still recovering from a devastating Jan. 12 earthquake. The preliminary results from the Nov. 28 election, which has been plagued by allegations of fraud, have popular carnival singer Michel "Sweet Micky" Martelly trailing Celestin by ...
Haiti Cholera Riots Lessen, 3rd Protester Killed
By not in system - AOL NewsPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Nov. 17) -- Anti-U.N. rioting fueled by cholera fears scaled down in northern Haiti on Wednesday, but a third demonstrator was killed in clashes and small-scale demonstrations took to the streets of the capital. Florida health officials, meanwhile, confirmed a case of cholera in a woman who had visited Haiti, though they said the disease is unlikely to spread in the United States. In Cap-Haitien, where the rioting began Monday, a U.N. armored vehicle ran into a trench that protesters had dug in the street, witnesses and U.N. police spokesman Andre Leclerc said. ...
Haiti's Cholera Death Toll Passes 900
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Nov. 15) -- More than 900 people have now died in Haiti's cholera outbreak, the government announced, confirming health workers' worst fears as the disease begins to sweep through the country's capital, crammed with earthquake survivors. Haiti's health ministry said Sunday that 917 people have died from cholera country-wide, and 14,642 people have been hospitalized, the BBC reported. That is up from 724 deaths and 11,125 hospitalizations reported a few days before, according to The New York Times. The fear is that those numbers could skyrocket now that the bacterial infection has ...
Cholera Confirmed in Haiti's Capital
By not in system - AOL NewsPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Nov. 9) -- A cholera epidemic has spread into Haiti's capital, imperiling nearly 3 million people living in Port-au-Prince, nearly half of them in unsanitary tent camps for the homeless from the Jan. 12 earthquake. Health authorities told The Associated Press on Monday that tests confirmed a 3-year-old boy from a quake refugee tent camp who hadn't been out of the city had caught the disease. More than 100 other suspected cholera cases among city residents also were being tested. The outbreak has already killed at least 544 people in Haiti, Health Ministry Executive ...
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