Haiti’s leading candidate speaks against council: “Supporters of one of her competitors in Haiti’s presidential election set barricades on fire and threw rubble at cars when initial results put him third. The No. 2 finisher urged his partisans to mobilize and his staff warned they could start a war.”
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Two of the top three candidates in Haiti’s disputed presidential election have rejected a proposed recount, threatening to torpedo a compromise aimed at quelling days of riots and violence over allegations that the vote was rigged. Only the candidate of the governing party, Jude Célestin, supports the offer by the electoral …
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\ PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Michel Martelly, the presidential candidate whose partisans have fiercely protested election results they consider rigged, said in an interview on Friday that he had rejected an offer to participate in a runoff election as a third candidate. “This would be like fraud to be in a second round by invitation,” he …
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AS ELECTIONS DERAIL: U.S. AND UN AT ODDS WITH THE “INDISPENSABLE” PRÉVAL: “ by Kim Ives ‘Managing [President René] Préval will remain challenging during the remainder of his term yet doing so is key to our success and that of Haiti,’ wrote then U.S. Ambassador to Haiti Janet Sanderson in a Jun. 16, 2009 confidential …
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Cholera strain tied to South Asia HMS researchers aid effort to trace the origin of the outbreak A team of researchers from Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the biotechnology company Pacific Biosciences, with colleagues from Haiti, has determined that the strain of cholera erupting in Haiti matches bacterial …
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