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Haiti’s elite sees business opportunities emerging from reconstruction- With Added COMMENTARY From Haitian-Truth

By Juan Forero Washington Post Foreign service Monday, February 15, 2010 PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — Last month’s earthquake battered Reginald Boulos’s small empire, destroying one of…

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U.S. brags Haiti response is a ‘model’ while more than a million remain homeless in Haiti

Over a month after the earthquake, hundreds of thousands of Haitians are still living in “sheet cities,” their only shelter made of bedsheets tied to…

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Why did so many people die in Haiti’s quake?

By Lucy Rodgers BBC News The devastating earthquakes that hit China on 12 May 2008, Italy on 6 April 2009 and Haiti one month ago…

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Leogane: Haiti’s ‘neglected’ quake-hit town

By Christian Fraser BBC News, Leogane, Haiti The mountain of rock that dominates the main square in Leogane was once a cathedral. It surrounds an…

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Adoption `lawyer’ tied to child sex case in El Salvador

BY PATRICIA MAZZEI, MICHAEL SALLAH AND GERARDO REYES pmazzei@MiamiHerald.com SANTO DOMINGO — The man providing legal advice to American church workers charged with trying to…

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US reduces troop numbers in Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE — The US military has reduced its number of troops in Haiti to 13,000 from a post-quake high of some 20,000 because the need…

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Detained Americans seek distance from adviser

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A man who provided legal assistance to 10 jailed U.S. missionaries and who may be wanted for human trafficking in El Salvador…

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Race to the Rainy Season in Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE–(ENEWSPF)– One month after the catastrophic quake that leveled most of Port-au-Prince, CARE and other aid agencies are in a race against time to get…

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Haiti Faces Major Food Crisis as Planting Season Nears, UN Says

February 12, 2010, 03:50 PM EST By Bill Varner Feb. 12 (Bloomberg) — Haiti faces a major food crisis due to a lack of support…

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Education Was Also Leveled by Quake in Haiti

By MARC LACEY Published: February 13, 2010 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Christina Julme was scribbling notes in the back of a linguistics class at the State…

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A Haitian-Free Rebuilding Plan?

A Haitian-Free Rebuilding Plan? For OpEdNews: Stanley Lucas – Writer Over the past 25 years, rampant political violence and an almost totally corrupt business and…