PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The man’s body was face down, his white dress shirt shining like wax in the sun, as he was unearthed in the ruins of a central Port-au-Prince restaurant a year after the earthquake. That bodies are still being found in rubble is a sign of how far Haiti has to go […]
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Haiti’s Leading Candidate Speaks Against Council
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Supporters of one of her competitors in Haiti’s presidential election set barricades on fire and threw rubble at cars when initial results put him third. The No. 2 finisher urged his partisans to mobilize and his staff warned they could start a war. But during the turmoil since the preliminary vote […]
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Rains Cause Floods in Haiti; Officials Say 12 Dead
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Steady rains flooded portions of the Haitian capital over the weekend, turning streets into rivers and leaving at least 12 people dead, civil protection officials said this week. Storms falling on the mountains that ring the capital sent cascades into the pitch-black downtown, where trucks left boat-like wakes as they forded […]