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France urged to repay billions of dollars to Haiti for independence ‘ransom’
Coalition of civil society groups says Paris should return harsh reparations imposed on Caribbean state two hundred years ago
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Plundered and corrupted for 200 years, Haiti was doomed to end in anarchy | Kenan Malik
Successive foreign governments plunged it into unpayable debt and left its citizens in penury
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WikiLeaks Haiti: Let Them Live on $3 a Day
Contractors for Fruit of the Loom, Hanes and Levi’s worked in close concert with the US Embassy when they aggressively moved to block a minimum wage increase for Haitian assembly zone workers, the lowest-paid in the hemisphere, according to secret State Department cables.
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Haiti's Shadow Sanitation System
Russell Leon works under the cover of darkness as part of a small crew sworn to secrecy. He is a bayakou, a manual laborer who empties the cesspools that collect deep bogs of human waste under Haiti’s back-yard latrines. In a country with no working sewers and roads that are often too ramshackle for tanker trucks, he is the sanitation infrastructure, charged with climbing down into concrete or earthen holes and scooping out the ordure with a plastic bucket.
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The footballer who disappeared
One of the biggest shocks in World Cup history happened in 1950, when the US beat England, thanks to a goal scored by Haitian Joe Gaetjens. After Gaetjens returned to Haiti a hero, he later disappeared and was killed, possibly by the president himself.
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Mosquito-borne virus spreads rapidly in Haiti
A mosquito-borne virus that was detected for the first time in Haiti last week has quickly spread throughout the Caribbean nation, a health official said Tuesday. Some 1,529 cases of the chikungunya virus have been confirmed, said Ronald Singer, a spokesman for Haiti's health ministry. The bulk of the cases, about 900 of them, were found in the west department, where the capital of Port-au-Prince is located. Another 300 cases were confirmed in northwestern Haiti.
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The Rise and Fall of Haitian Drug Lord Jacques Ketant
It was supposed to be easy. Edouard Rene Joseph was a combat vet, Desert Storm, so he had trimmed the situation down to simple mission objectives: Get into the country, pick up the kids, leave the country. One day, tops. No big deal.
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A Major New Port in Haiti
Port Lafito, the brainchild of the GB Group, port, is the country’s first Panamax Port. It was inaugurated in a ceremony last Thursday.
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Why Can't Anyone Get Haiti's Cholera Outbreak Under Control?
An epidemic broke out in 2010—and even after years of working to curb the spread of the disease, it's still killing people. Five years on, cholera has killed nearly 9,000 Haitians. More than 730,000 people have been infected. It is the worst outbreak of the disease, globally, in modern history. Hundreds of emergency and development workers have been working alongside the Haitian government for five years, trying to rid the country of cholera...
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Why can’t we stop cholera in Haiti?
An outbreak of cholera in Haiti that began in 2010 is still killing people. Why have attempts to get it under control failed? Rose George reports.
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Confidential Documents: Red Cross Itself May Not Know How Millions Donated for Haiti Were Spent
The documents also raise questions about the accuracy of the Red Cross’ count of how many Haitians it helped, concluding the figures on one project were “fairly meaningless.” By Justin Elliott and Laura Sullivan.
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Disorder rife as Haitians vote in long-delayed elections
Haitians were electing legislators to parliament on Sunday after a years-long wait, but the vote was plagued with delays, disorder and occasional fistfights and rock-throwing.
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Deana Lawson & Henry Taylor on How to Represent Strangers
Our dialogues have been mutually inspiring and have informed my focus and my photographs in subtle ways. What comes out of Henry’s mouth in conversation is completely unpredictable, and it is our meandering exchanges that keep the friendship alive and fresh. The text below is an excerpt from a recent phone conversation we had between New York and LA.
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Priestly spirit
Max Beauvoir, biochemist and high priest of Haitian voodoo, died on September 12th, aged 79.
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In Search Of The Red Cross' $500 Million In Haiti Relief
An investigation by NPR and ProPublica finds a string of poorly managed projects, questionable spending and dubious claims of success, according to a review of the charity's internal documents.
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Report: Red Cross Spent 25 Percent Of Haiti Donations On Internal Expenses
A congressional inquiry finds that the American Red Cross stonewalled lawmakers as they sought to understand the charity's finances, and that it sent significantly less money to Haiti than claimed.
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UN admits role in Haiti's deadly cholera outbreak
The UN has finally acknowledged it played a role in an outbreak of cholera in Haiti in 2010 that has since killed about 10,000 people in the country. Scientific studies have shown that Nepalese UN troops were the source of the disease - but the UN repeatedly denied responsibility until now. An internal report seen by the New York Times is said to have led to the shift. But the UN still says it is protected by diplomatic immunity from claims for compensation from victims' families.
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Hurricane History of Matthew's Targets: Haiti, Eastern Cuba and Jamaica
Very dangerous Category 4 Hurricane Matthew is strengthening as it churns northwards towards Haiti, Jamaica, and eastern Cuba, and is poised to deliver a historic pounding Monday and Tuesday to these unfortunate nations. Haiti will take the brunt of Matthew’s heavy rains, and will suffer the most from the storm.
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In the Path of Hurricane Matthew
People walk on the road as rain falls during Hurricane Matthew in Les Cayes.
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Usain Bolt donates 10 million to Haiti
Usain Bolt has donated a reported 10 million dollars to help rebuild Haiti after the island was hit by Hurricane Matthew this week.
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