Category: Earthquake/CHOLERA
Articles and image gallery from the 2010 earthquakes in Haiti
Angry demonstrators demand Sarkozy to pay up and return Aristide to Haiti
Demonstrators show photos in support of ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide on Feb. 17, 2010 Supporter of Jean-Bertrand Aristide calls for his return to help in…
American Airlines resumes commercial flights to Haiti
Miami Herald Staff Report American Airlines on Friday morning resumed commercial flights to Haiti as the first major carrier to restart paid flights into the…
AP IMPACT: Haiti flight logs detail early chaos
By MARTHA MENDOZA The Associated Press Thursday, February 18, 2010; 4:32 PM — Washcloths arrived before water, and senators before surgeons. In the first chaotic…
FLASH-FLASH-FLASH Feb 18, 2010: Preval steals another $90,000,000
Venezuela’s Chavez forgives $90,000,000 in earlier petroleum deal. This money was supposed to be used for the Gonaives restoration. Preval kept this fund release secret….
Haiti’s earthquake camps turning into shanty towns
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — First there was an empty field. Then came rows of makeshift tents. Now those camps are turning into shanty towns — with…
FLASH – FLASH – FLASH 7:08 P.M. 17th FEBRUARY 2010
Moderate rain falling on Port-au-Prince soaking homeless people in their primitive shelters. Many of these are made with bedsheets. Some are made of cardboard. Thousands…
Lack of doctors, rehab threaten Haitians’ recovery
BY FRANCES ROBLES frobles@MiamiHerald.com FOND PARISIEN, Haiti — In the turmoil that followed Haiti’s earthquake, Eugette Thimo waited with a broken foot for five days…
Why Hurricane Katrina Looms Over Obama’s Relief Efforts in Haiti
By:Howard Fineman The gods of politics have an ironic sense of justice. They can force a president to confront more complex versions of the very…
Sarkozy visits Haiti, unveils major aid package
The support package totaling 326 million euros ($447 million) included cancellation of 56 million euros of debt, 100 million euros of fresh funds to be…
Ex-adviser to detained Americans charged in US-Added COMMENTARY by Haitian-Truth
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — The fugitive former legal adviser to a group of Americans detained in Haiti on child kidnapping charges said he has…
Amputations push Haitians closer to the edge
A teen who was close to graduating from high school lost her father and both of her legs in the Haiti quake. For her and…
88 Haitians rescued at sea repatriated
The Coast Guard said 88 Haitian nationals who were rescued from a sinking freighter were returned to Haiti BY SERGIO R. BUSTOS sbustos@MiamiHerald.com Another large…
Mexico’s earthquake recovery could be a model for Haiti
Though Mexico’s government botched its initial response to the 1985 earthquakes, it found the right formula to build and repair tens of thousands of homes….
Haiti: What to Do with a Nation of Amputees
More than a month after his crushed left leg was amputated just above the knee, Gedeon Ralph Mary, 23, still cries. Not from the physical…
American Airlines to resume service to Haiti
CHICAGO (Reuters) – AMR Corp’s American Airlines on Tuesday said it would resume service to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Friday, its first flight to the nation…
Harper tours Canada’s relief operation in Haiti Prime Minister visits Jacmel, where Canada’s DART team operates medical clinic
JACMEL-Prime Minister Stephen Harper today got a primer from Canadian troops on what they’re doing in earthquake-shattered Haiti. What he saw in the small city…
New Estimates of Haiti Quake Damage Sharply Higher
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The devastating earthquake that hit Haiti last month may have caused billions of dollars more in damage than initially estimated, according to…
Handling Tuberculosis in Haiti
Tim King Salem-News.com There are roughly 30,000 new cases of tuberculosis each year in Haiti. (PORT-AU-PRINCE / SALEM) – Haiti has the highest tuberculosis (TB)…
French leader’s Haiti visit revives bitter legacy
By MICHELLE FAUL (AP) – 6 hours ago PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Nicolas Sarkozy’s visit Wednesday, the first ever by a French president, is reviving bitter…
Fears of another quake become new Haiti boogeyman
By PAISLEY DODDS (AP) – 1 hour ago PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Hundreds of houses that survived Haiti’s killer quake still stand empty even as quake…