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Frustrations await Bush, Clinton visit to Haiti-Added COMMENTARY (history lesson too) By Haitian-Truth

March 21, 2010
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Frustrations await Bush, Clinton visit to Haiti-Added COMMENTARY (history lesson too) By Haitian-Truth

By JONATHAN M. KATZ The Associated Press Sunday, March 21, 2010; 10:15 PM PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — One restored a Haitian president to power; the other flew him back out again. Former U.S. presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush are visiting Haiti on Monday, reminding the country of its tumultuous recent past just as...
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With cheap food imports, Haiti can’t feed itself-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

March 21, 2010
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With cheap food imports, Haiti can’t feed itself-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

By JONATHAN M. KATZ The Associated Press Saturday, March 20, 2010 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The earthquake not only smashed markets, collapsed warehouses and left more than 2.5 million people without enough to eat. It may also have shaken up the way the developing world gets food. Decades of inexpensive imports – especially rice from...
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UN: 2 killed in quake collapse in northern Haiti

March 21, 2010
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UN: 2 killed in quake collapse in northern Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A U.N. spokesman says a small earthquake in northern Haiti has collapsed an apartment building and killed two people. Residents say the tremor struck Haiti’s second-largest city of Cap-Haitien early Sunday. U.N. spokesman Louicius Eugene says five people were pulled out of the rubble but two died. The other three were...
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International Donors’ Conference Towards a New Future for Haiti

March 21, 2010
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Office of the Spokesman Washington, DC March 16, 2010 The United States, in cooperation with the Government of Haiti, will join the United Nations in co-hosting a ministerial-level International Donors Conference Towards a New Future for Haiti on March 31, 2010 in New York at UN Headquarters. After the outpouring of global support for...
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