Elections

Le Premier ministre désigné Laurent Lamothe représente le président de la République au 6e sommet des Amériques qui se déroule à Carthagène en Colombie. Le Président Michel Martelly, a annulé, sur recommandation de ses médecins, a-t-on appris de sources proches du Palais national. Le Premier ministre désigné Laurent Lamothe représente le président de la...
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NOTE DE PRESSE “Quand la Politique Dominicaine traverse nos frontières” Dans des articles à sensation, la presse Dominicaine fait état d’un complot que j’aurais fomenté contre le Président Michel Joseph Martelly. Quelle farce ! En effet j’ai participé activement aux cotés de notre ami mutuel Wyclef Jean,  à l’élection du Président Martelly, et je...
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USA TODAY-CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is skipping the Summit of the Americas for medical reasons as cancer treatment increasingly forces him out of the international spotlight Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro announced the decision on Saturday from Colombia, where he was attending the summit in Chavez’s place. He told state...
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Latin American leaders at the Summit of the Americas, in their attempt to curb regional drug violence, are expected to call for legalizing marijuana and other drugs, a move Obama opposes. LA Times: By Christi Parsons and Brian Bennett, Los Angeles TimesApril 13, 2012, 4:45 p.m. CARTAGENA, Colombia — President Obama will highlight trade...
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Thursday, 12 April 2012 20:40 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) – Senators put personal interests ahead of those of the nation, declared Evans Paul, a leader of the United Democratic Convention (KID) and former Mayor of Port-au-Prince. Mr. Paul was reacting to the favorable vote in the upper house to ratify Laurent Lamothe to lead the...
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Port-au-Prince, le 23 décembre 2011Monsieur Michel Joseph MartellyPrésident de la RépubliquePalais National Monsieur le Président,La Commission d’Etat d’Organisation de la composante militaire de la Force Publique créée par Arrêté en date du 21 novembre 2011 vous présente ses respects et a l’honneur de soumettre  à votre attention, conformément aux termes de son mandat principal,...
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) – Mexican President Felipe Calderón will make April 12 a working visit to Haiti to strengthen bilateral cooperation, said Friday the Haitian chancery in a statement. The Latin American leader will include a head-to-head with his Haitian counterpart, Michel Martelly. In preparation for this trip, a delegation of Mexican cooperation composed...
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — With less than six months left until Election Day, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has hardly hit the campaign trail. Instead, he has been consumed with his fight against cancer, repeatedly traveling to Cuba for treatment and publicly vowing to defeat his illness. While cancer would end the presidential ambitions of...
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P. J. Goico…Pepe Goico. File. Pepe Goico denies plot Santo Domingo.- Senior officials of the Haiti and Dominican governments denounced in Santo Domingo Thursday that the head of ex president Hipólito Mejía’s security detail Pedro Julio Goico (Pepe Goico) and a Haitian identified as Pierre Kanzki have hatched an alleged plot to overthrow Haiti...
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Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, who has yet to confirm his attendance at the Summit of the Americas this coming weekend, faces a slippage of regional influence as he undergoes radiation therapy for cancer. A recurrence of cancer first detected in 2011 has kept Chavez in Havana for days at a time for the radiation...
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