BY JACQUELINE CHARLES jcharles@MiamiHerald.com PORT-AU-PRINCE — Along the hardened edges of a sprawling public plaza-turned survivors camp, children run through cascading water, women wash clothes and Elusner Marcellus, 31, is thinking about making it through another day. The last thing on his mind are elections. “A people who is hungry, who is living in...
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Port-au-Prince, Haiti Thousands of protesters, today demonstrated in front of the remains of Haiti’s Presidential palace, calling for the resignation of President Rene Preval. Riot police had to rush in to the spot to contain the protesters and fired shots in the air. The protesters hit back by throwing stones at the police, who...
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JONATHAN M. KATZ Associated Press Writer 12:18 PM PDT, May 10, 2010 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Acrid smoke filled the air outside the ruins of Haiti’s national palace Monday as police fired tear gas to control a crowd of 11,000 people calling for the resignation of President Rene Preval in the largest political protest...
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CMC Sunday, May 09, 2010 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – President René Préval says he plans to do everything in his power to ensure that general elections are held in the earthquake-ravaged, French-speaking Caribbean country before he demits office next year. The constitutional deadline for the elections is February 7, 2011, but the massive earthquake on...
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By Lois Romano Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, May 10, 2010; A15 Long before an earthquake killed 230,000 people and left 1 million homeless in Haiti, Cheryl D. Mills was riveted on our Caribbean neighbor and the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. As Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton‘s counselor and chief of...
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