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Haiti urged to arrest visiting ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

BBC: Human rights groups have urged the Haitian government to arrest and prosecute former President Jean-Claude Duvalier for abuses committed during his 1971-86 leadership. Mr…

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Retour surprise de “Bébé Doc” à Haïti

L’ancien dictateur Jean-Claude Duvalier, surnommé “Bébé Doc”, a fait un retour surprise dimanche en Haïti, 25 ans après avoir été renversé par la population d’un…

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Jean-Claude Duvalier est en Haïti, premières reactions L’ancien président à vie Jean-Claude Duvalier, chassé du pouvoir par une révolte populaire le 7 février 1986, est arrivé dimanche en Haïti, ont constaté les journalistes à l’aéroport Toussaint Louverture de Port-au-Prince.

lenouvelliste.com Haïti: “L’avion a atterri. Il occupe les places 3A et 3B” à bord d’un vol de la compagnie Air France, a indiqué à l’AFP…

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Jean-Claude Duvalier, “Baby Doc”, en Haïti

L’ancien président “à vie” haïtien Jean-Claude Duvalier, surnommé “Baby Doc”, chassé du pouvoir par une révolte populaire en 1986, est arrivé dimanche en Haïti, a…

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Jean-Claude Duvalier, un ex-président héréditaire

Jean-Claude Duvalier, un ex-président héréditaire à vie Le Matin: L’ancien président  à vie haïtien Jean- Claude Duvalier, surnommé  Baby Doc , avait pris le pouvoir…

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Who Let ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier Back into Haiti?-Preceeded By COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

COMMENTARY:HAITIAN-TRUTH.ORG This TIME article is the sort of garbage that prevents anyone from gaining a balanced perspective of what is and what isn’t, in Haiti. …

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‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier returns to tense Haiti-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

It’s unclear why the reviled ex-dictator has come back to the country, mired in political turmoil and humanitarian crisis, after nearly 25 years. He says,…

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‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier returns to Haiti: I ‘came to help’ country -Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

BY JACQUELINE CHARLES jcharles@miamiherald.com PORT-AU-PRINCE — In a move that stunned Haitians here and abroad, former dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier unexpectedly returned to his…

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Cell firm walks the investment walk Digicel became Haiti’s top employer by providing the phone service it didn’t have

By RENE BRUEMMER, Montreal Gazette PORT-AU-PRINCE – When cellular phone company Digicel entered the Haitian market in 2006, many felt they were doomed to fail….

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DENIS O’BRIEN: Getting Haiti back on its feet Philanthropy leads rehabilitation efforts

BY AL EDWARDS Friday, January 14, 2011: In 2010 Denis O’Brien, chairman of the Caribbean’s leading mobile telephone service provider Digicel promised to restore the…

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MOTIVATION??? Duvalier returns but what else is in the mill as Preval starts a new game??

January 17, 2011 The old Haitian proverb – “Behind the mountain is another mountain”… might be applicable here. What were Preval’s motives in giving Jean-Claude…

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A MOVE TOWARDS FRESH ELECTION PROMOTED

January 14, 2011 DRP Haiti Representatives of the international community are beginning to show a willingness to discard the November 28, 2010 elections and start…

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The architect, the celebrity minder and me… symbols of hell that is Haiti

By Edward Stourton In Jean-Paul Sartre’s play Huis Clos, or No Exit, a small group of strangers find themselves locked up together in a room;…

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Haiti Still Buried Under the Rubble of Dueling NGOs: OXFAM Report

Both OXFAM and the Disaster Accountability Project released reports this week that not only enhance the already-serious criticism of the relationship between the Haitian government…

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Only Half of Funds Donated to Haiti Have Been Used- ADDED COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

Saturday, January 15, 2011 By Dennis B. Roddy, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Michael Henninger/Post-Gazette A man walks by a collapsed structure Monday on the route to the…

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Fear, confusion as Haiti tent camp shuts-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

By Sebastian Smith, AFP PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Officials in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince sparked fear, confusion — and some hope — when they began closing…

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FREE-AND-FAIR ELECTIONS COULD SEE A SOLUTION TO HAITI’S 200 YEAR PROBLEM:. BAKER AS PRESIDENT, CEANT AS PRIME MINISTER…OR CEANT AS PRESIDENT AND BAKER AS PRIME MINISTER WOULD WORK MAGIC

January 12, 2011 The elections, had they been run honestly, would have seen a result that would have diluted a societal problem that has afflicted…

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Continental Airlines will fly direct to Haiti

By Joseph R. Perone/The Star-Ledger Tim Boyle/BloombergContinental Airlines file photo. Continental Airlines will begin nonstop flights between Newark Liberty International Airport and Port-Au-Prince, Haiti on…

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Images Of Haiti Days After The Earthquake, And Now

NPR photographer David Gilkey revisits a few key locations in Haiti, one year after a massive earthquake devastated the capital, Port-au-Prince. The quake killed more…

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Haitians turn out for one-year anniversary of quake

The trauma remains fresh for survivors of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake. Nearly a million remain in tents and other temporary housing By Tracy Wilkinson, Los…