People waited outside an office in Port-au-Prince for a chance to pick up national ID cards, which are required for voting in Sunday’s presidential election. CreditDamon Winter/The New York Times PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Crushed buildings from the January earthquake still spill out onto sidewalks here, people are collapsing from cholera at hospital doors and a …
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Haitian music star-turned-presidential candidate Michel “Sweet Micky” Martelly divides his time on the campaign trail between chatting with voters and asking Facebook friends and Twitter followers to vote for him on one of several cyber polls. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (MCT) — Haitian music star turned presidential candidate Michel “Sweet Micky” Martelly divides his time on the campaign …
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (MCT) — Whenever an exiled Mirlande Manigat heard the sound of Haitian music, it made her heart ache. “I was just sick,” said Manigat, longtime opposition leader, wife of former President Leslie Manigat and now aspiring president. “I was obsessed with returning.” She did return, and today, Manigat, a grandmother and Sorbonne-educated university professor, …
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Letters: False picture of foreign aid to Haiti: ” The UN forces came to police the 92% of Haitian voters who had elected President Aristide and protested about his overthrow by a US coup. They were never ‘heroes’ – except to the elite ‘cocooned in luxury and indifference’ who backed the coup (Heroes to zeros, …
Philip J. Crowley Assistant Secretary Daily Press Briefing Washington, DC August 10, 2010 INDEX FOR TODAY’S BRIEFING DEPARTMENT Aid to Pakistan/U.S. Providing Additional $20 Million to Pakistan/Brings Total to $55 Million U.S. Tracking Situation of Flood in India/Working Closely with Indian Government China/$200,000 provided to the Red Cross Society of China Russia/ $50,000 to Assist …
