BY ANDRES VIGLUCCI AND SCOTT HIAASEN aviglucci@MiamiHerald.com Speaking to an American audience on C-SPAN, the Haitian ambassador to the United States sketched an optimistic future for Port-au-Prince — a smaller, well-built city to replace the teeming, chaotic and shoddily built sprawl of almost three million people that was virtually wiped away by the Jan....
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BY DAVID OVALLE dovalle@MiamiHerald.com PORT-AU-PRINCE — Airport lawn-care man Basaney Simon lost his right leg in last week’s earthquake. He fears it will cost him his job. “I don’t know if they will have me back with one leg,” he said as he lay nursing his bandaged leg at a makeshift University of Miami...
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By Mitchell Landsberg and Tracy Wilkinson Reporting from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti – The earthquake destroyed just about everything Georges Marceau owned, even his shoes. For 10 days, the 38-year-old engineer couldn’t even withdraw money to buy food: All of the banks in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, had been closed since the Jan. 12 quake. So on...
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By Tracy Wilkinson January 24, 2010 Reporting from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti – At Port-au-Prince’s main art museum, it looked as if a cruel giant had taken bites out of the walls and ceiling of the cavernous exhibition hall. Large wooden panels where paintings once hung had toppled. A bronze bust of DeWitt Peters, a California...
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By Greg Quinn Jan. 24 (Bloomberg) — Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said today that the country is “calm” and that reports of major violence in the Caribbean nation are not true. “There is a lot of talk about violence, it’s not true in Haiti,” Bellerive said in Ottawa at a meeting with Canadian...
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In the news from Haiti over the past two weeks, images of a grieving Bill Clinton have been almost as constant as the pictures of the earthquake victims themselves. Everywhere you look, the former president seems to appear—expressing his sorrow and pledging to make his foundation the cornerstone of a vast rebuilding effort. When...
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The Associated Press Sunday, January 24, 2010; 9:56 AM HAVANA — Fidel Castro is questioning why the U.S. and other countries sent soldiers to quake-ravaged Haiti, saying military presence hindered international cooperation. The former Cuban president writes that “without anyone knowing how or why,” Washington dispatched troops “to occupy Haitian territory,” and other nations...
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The confirmed death toll from Haiti’s devastating earthquake has risen above 150,000 in the Port-au-Prince area alone, a government minister has said. Communications minister Marie-Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue said the count was based on bodies collected in and around the capital by state company CNE. Many more remain uncounted under rubble in the capital and...
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