By Alex Lantier WSWS Saturday, Feb 20, 2010 French President Nicolas Sarkozy traveled for a one-day visit to Haiti on February 17, amid rising popular opposition to the Western-backed Préval government and international tensions over how to rebuild the country. The US military occupied Haiti after the devastating January 12 earthquake that killed over...
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By DAVID LUHNOW And IANTHE JEANNE DUGAN PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti— Heavy rains pelted Haiti’s capital this week ahead of the rainy season, giving the hundreds of thousands of people left homeless by last month’s earthquake a sense of the misery ahead. Health-care experts say conditions in the crowded tent communities that sprang up after the...
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French President Sarkozy visited Haiti to offer $400,000,000 towards Haiti’s reconstruction. In return for this offer …. concrete help for the Haitian people, Preval planned a massive demonstration, in front of the National Palace, as Sarkozy toured the site with Preval. He hoped to embarrass the French president and anger him at what was...
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Feb 20 2010 Wales Online The Haitian government will seize land to build temporary camps for earthquake victims in a controversial new move, prime minister Jean-Max Bellerive said. The decision is potentially explosive in a country where a small elite owns most of the land in and around the capital Port-au-Prince. That elite, a...
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