By Associated Press, Updated: Tuesday, February 21, 3:31 PM MIAMI — Federal prosecutors in Miami say a once-powerful Haitian drug lord should get half off his 27-year prison sentence because he provided key assistance to prosecutors in a dozen other cases. Prosecutor Lynn Kirkpatrick said Tuesday that 48-year-old Beaudoin “Jacques” Ketant helped convict high-ranking, corrupt Haitian law enforcement...
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BBC: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said that he will have to have further surgery after doctors found a lesion during medical tests in Cuba. The 57-year-old had two operations in Havana last year to remove a cancerous tumour from his pelvis, and had said he was completely recovered. He said the lesion was...
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Hoping to stave off a political crisis in Haiti, the country’s leaders and foreign diplomats have been working to get the country’s executive and legislative branches to resolve their differences. By Jacqueline Charles jcharles@MiamiHerald.com Foreign diplomats, influential business leaders and top Haitian politicians have been scrambling this week to prevent a political confrontation that...
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By William Booth, PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — International aid worker Emmett Fitzgerald has to get 20,000 very poor people squatting in front of the National Palace to pack up their tarps and tin, their plastic buckets and soiled mats — to empty the most notorious camp in Haiti and go home. The hard part: What...
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(AP) PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The U.S. Agency for International Development is hoping to build a small market in Haiti to offset a charcoal industry that has led to widespread deforestation in the Caribbean nation. USAID says it has awarded a contract for $7.2 million to Chemonics International Inc. to work on a three-year project...
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