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Why Haiti deserves visitors
Long before I arrive in Haiti I get a sense of what the name itself conjures up. There are no direct flights from the UK, so I’ve flown in via the Dominican Republic, Haiti’s conjoined twin on the...
View ArticleU.S. needs strict Haitian pledge of accountability
Historically, United States has underut democratic efforts in HaitiCongress lobbies Obama for policies that allow clean elections thereBY MARK WEISBROTTribune News ServiceWhen an earthquake struck...
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Vodou is elusive and endangered, but it remains the soul of Haitian people
Far from B-movie cliches, vodou is spiritual system and a way of life but even in Haiti, where it became an official religion, it faces prejudice and hostilitySaturday 7 November 2015 13.30 GMT Last...
View ArticleGrandchamps Welcomes You to Haiti, via Bedford-Stuyvesant
In a photograph on the wall of Grandchamps, a Haitian restaurant near the eastern edge of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, a woman in a sundress and long earrings carries a plate of seemingly...
View ArticleMaking A Family: South Windsor Teacher Adopts Haitian Siblings Including...
SOUTH WINDSOR — At the orphanage in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where South Windsor junior Daniel Eddy and his sisters Edeline and Shelove lived, the electricity came and went. On Barbara Eddy's final night...
View ArticleHaiti: US interference wins elections
By Kevin Moran and Azadeh Shahshahani Haiti’s sham election on Aug. 9, 2015 was characterized by extremely low voter turnout, with just 18 percent of registered voters going to the polls. Additionally,...
View ArticleHaiti’s election: Hardly a victory for democracy
By Lauren CarasikHaiti’s Oct. 25 election was largely free of the violence and chaos that marred the Aug. 9 first-round vote for legislative seats. Many international observers and the U.S. State...
View ArticleThe Real Deal: How the U.S. broke Haiti
There is very little debate that the United States of America is the military and economic juggernaut of the world. In order to achieve that status, the U.S. has had to exploit many smaller nations....
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AP PHOTOS: Cockfighting Is Popular Pastime in Poor Haiti
Cockfighting lives on in Haiti, where weekly fights draw crowds of men, hungry for the drama and the promise of a big payout.The centuries-old sport, pitting two roosters against each other in a fight...
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Social Entrepreneurs Risk Lives For Charcoal In Haiti
Devin ThorpeCONTRIBUTORTo tell the story of the social venture Carbon Roots, we have to go back to the Haiti earthquake.Lyle Sorensen is an orthopedic surgeon who came to Haiti to volunteer for a month...
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U.S. Political Intervention in Haiti Has Caused Instability and Aid Efforts...
Mark Weisbrot Co-director, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington, D.C.When a devastating earthquake struck Haiti in January 2010, killing more than 200,000 people, former President Bill...
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COMING HOME: HAITI EXPLORES HAITIAN HIP-HOP: “THEY’RE NOT DOING IT FOR THE...
Hip-hop is the number-one exported culture in the United States," DJ EFN claims. "It can connect us and bring down any barriers in between.""It's like Anthony Bourdain for hip-hop."As a vet of the 305...
View ArticleBookish Nonprofit Founder Guides Team To Save Young Heart Patients In Haiti
This is the fifth and final post in a series from Haiti.Owen Robinson made that connection with Haiti that so many I met here have when he was working for the Clinton Foundation in 2010. He got...
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Arts program connects kids to Haitian roots
Tradisyon Lakou Lakay was founded in March 2001Founders Weiselande César and Myriame Pierre teach the beauty of Haitian cultureProgram rooted in the arts at the Little Haiti Cultural CenterBY JEFFREY...
View ArticleSecond annual Swim for Haiti a success
Nov. 15 — To the Editor:The second annual Swim for Haiti was a huge success at the Portsmouth Indoor Pool on Sunday, Nov. 8. Contributions came for the Seacoast area business people, LAPSS clients,...
View ArticleHAITI JEWISH LEGAY PROJECT
■ THE CENTER Organizations of Holocaust Survivors in Israel (COHSI) – an umbrella for 54 Holocaust survivor organizations, which is headed by former diplomat and former Knesset member Colette Avital –...
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Haitian Holdout Le Soleil Keeps the 60s Dream Alive
Robert Sietsema reviews Manhattan’s last remaining Haitian café.by Robert Sietsema, November 17, 2015owadays, if you went looking for a Haitian restaurant you’d probably try Flatbush, Canarsie, or...
View ArticleOU SONT-ILS LES VRAIS AMIS D'HAITI?
OU SONT-ILS LES VRAIS AMIS D’HAITI ?Chaque fois que j’ai l’occasion de consulter les médias à la recherche de nouvelles pouvant témoigner d’une certaine pertinence de la chose haïtienne, je tombe...
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Sean Penn says his work in Haiti inspired by IsraAID
By Abigail Leichman DECEMBER 1, 2015, 4:29 PMSean Penn in Haiti. Photo: courtesyOn his first visit to Israel, American actor and humanitarian activist Sean Penn declared that the work of his nonprofit...
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#GivingTuesday: In Haiti, your gift saves lives AND families
In the foothills of Haiti where we live, the plaintive eyes of hungry children bore through us, their hands upturned, begging for food.This country of more than 10 million, located in the verdant...
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