By Susan Kinzie Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, January 16, 2010 By Friday morning, just days after the earthquake hit, Wyclef Jean’s Yele Haiti Foundation had raised more than $1.5 million. Undoubtedly, Jean’s celebrity helped draw in donors: He’s an internationally known musician from Haiti who won a Grammy with the Fugees and went...
Read more »
BY MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY Joseph P. Kennedy II took time out last month from his oil dealings with Hugo Chávez to respond to a column I wrote about another of his ventures. This one involved a 1999 contract between Fusion Telecommunications, where Mr. Kennedy was on the board, and the state-owned telecom monopoly Haiti...
Read more »
By Alan Gomez and Oren Dorell, USA TODAY The many nations helping Haiti recover from the devastating earthquake that struck there have set up their own military compounds and fly their flags at the entrances. France’s tricolor, Britain’s Union Jack and even Croatia‘s coat of arms flap in the breeze. But the country whose...
Read more »