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TheBlaze.com UPDATE: The Administration has just responded to the disappearing stories. Read it here. Have you heard that Malia Obama, the president’s daughter, is reportedly spending her spring break in Oaxaca, Mexico? Allegedly, she’s jetting off with some of her classmates and 25 Secret Service agents to a country that the State Department has...
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By Kim Ives: “With the permission that the President has just given me, I can inform you that President Martelly is not American, he is Haitian.” Thus spoke U.S. Ambassador to Haiti Kenneth Merten at Haiti’s National Palace during a Mar. 8 press conference which was supposed to lay to rest persistent charges that...
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has returned home after having surgery for cancer in Cuba. Mr Chavez, 57, had been in Cuba for three weeks for treatment for a recurrence of the cancer he first had treated last year. He has said he is recovering well but will need radiotherapy. His renewed illness has caused...
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By NPR People: Adam Davidson Why are some nations rich and others poor? In a new book called Why Nations Fail, a pair of economists argue that a lot comes down to politics. To research the book, the authors scoured the world for populations and geographic areas that are identical in all respects save...
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Thursday, 15 March 2012 15:17 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) – “If senators put an end to the inquiry into the nationality of head of state without providing a report, they risk losing their credibility in the eyes of the Haitian people,” said former First Lady Mirlande Manigat. The former presidential candidate, Mirlande Hyppolite Manigat...
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Bernama.comPORT AU PRINCE, March 16 (BERNAMA-NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — The first rains of the rainy season have hit Haiti where about 500,000 victims of the quake of Jan 2010 are still living in fragile canvas tents. Several neighborhoods were flooded and some houses were damaged, as a number of canals overflowed, according to a report...
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The Washinton Times: The U.S. ambassador to Haiti has been drawn into a controversy over whether President Michel Martelly, a former pop singer in Miami, is a U.S. citizen and ineligible to hold the office he won last year. Ambassador Kenneth H. Merten insists that Mr. Martelly is not an American citizen and does...
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Bank robber Willie Sutton said he targeted banks because “that’s where the money is.” While most would disapprove of his ethics, few would argue with his logic. Why, then, do we keep hearing about thieves targeting Haiti? In today’s Wall Street Journal, Mary Anastasia O’Grady informs us of the latest allegations of stealing from...
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Tuesday, 13 March 2012 13:36 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) – Senator Nènèl Cassy (Nippes/Inite), a member of the special commission conducting the investigation on nationality, described Monday as “an important step” to seek a diplomatic “formalization” of the recent statement by U.S. Ambassador Kenneth Merten who denied that the Haitian leader would hold US citizenship....
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BBC: Two United Nations peacekeepers from Pakistan have been sentenced to a year in prison and sacked from the army for raping a 14-year-old boy in Haiti. The soldiers were found guilty by a Pakistani military tribunal in Haiti and will serve their terms back home. The attack in Gonaives in January was not...
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