Moderate rain falling on Port-au-Prince soaking homeless people in their primitive shelters. Many of these are made with bedsheets. Some are made of cardboard. Thousands have no shelter at all and sleep on the ground or streets, that have been closed to traffic. Huge outbreak of colds, flu……pneumonia can follow. Expecting increase in TB....
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BY FRANCES ROBLES frobles@MiamiHerald.com FOND PARISIEN, Haiti — In the turmoil that followed Haiti’s earthquake, Eugette Thimo waited with a broken foot for five days in a hospital yard littered with the dead. The delay to see a doctor eventually cost her an infection, four surgeries and half her right leg. “When I leave...
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By:Howard Fineman The gods of politics have an ironic sense of justice. They can force a president to confront more complex versions of the very problems we thought we had solved by electing him. As you judge, so shall you be judged: sometimes there is an almost mathematical precision to it. Just ask President...
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The support package totaling 326 million euros ($447 million) included cancellation of 56 million euros of debt, 100 million euros of fresh funds to be provided over two years and 65 million euros to be channeled through the European Union. “I have come to tell Haiti’s people that they are not alone … France...
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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — The fugitive former legal adviser to a group of Americans detained in Haiti on child kidnapping charges said he has been indicted in the U.S. in an immigrant smuggling case. U.S. Marshals say they are hunting for Jorge Puello, who was already being pursued by authorities in the Dominican...
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A teen who was close to graduating from high school lost her father and both of her legs in the Haiti quake. For her and thousands like her, an already difficult life has become much bleaker. By Mitchell Landsberg~Reporting from Gonaives, Haiti – She is 19 years old, with an angelic face and big,...
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The Coast Guard said 88 Haitian nationals who were rescued from a sinking freighter were returned to Haiti BY SERGIO R. BUSTOS sbustos@MiamiHerald.com Another large group of Haitian nationals was repatriated to Haiti after Coast Guard officials said they were rescued from a sinking 50-foot sail freighter discovered about 45 miles north of the...
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Though Mexico’s government botched its initial response to the 1985 earthquakes, it found the right formula to build and repair tens of thousands of homes. BY DAVID OVALLE dovalle@MiamiHerald.com MEXICO CITY — The devastating 1985 earthquakes delivered Felipe Lembrino a mixed blessing: one year living in a squalid makeshift camp for the displaced, but...
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More than a month after his crushed left leg was amputated just above the knee, Gedeon Ralph Mary, 23, still cries. Not from the physical pain, which has long since subsided, but the agonizing thoughts of the outcast existence amputees so often face in Haiti. “Look at it!” says Mary, who survived a pancaked...
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CHICAGO (Reuters) – AMR Corp’s American Airlines on Tuesday said it would resume service to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Friday, its first flight to the nation since a devastating earthquake last month. Additionally, AMR’s American Eagle will begin new service into Haiti from Puerto Rico starting March 12. U.S. carriers suspended operations in Haiti following...
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