Despite the accusations against them, Yele Haiti touts itself as a changed organization.
Chileans can’t seem to catch a break these days.
You may mean well, but Japan doesn’t need your adoption help. Haiti, however, still does. And that’s a major difference between developed and undeveloped countries.
A little more than a year ago, at least 800,000 people in Haiti’s capital, Port-Au-Prince, were killed when an earthquake decimated the city sending the Caribbean nation into further turmoil. In a continuing emergency situation, Haitians eschewed their annual Carnival celebration, focusing on the death wrought by the temblor.
“It’s like if Adolph Hitler were still alive and suddenly appeared at the Berlin airport.” — Georges Michel, historian, explaining why Haiti’s former dictator, Jean-Claude ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier, was arrested upon his return from exile (via TIME)
On Jan. 16, Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, Haiti’s long-time dictator, returned to his former country. Two days later, he was taken to a courthouse by police, marking a bizarre and shocking homecoming for a largely reviled man who’s been out of the spotlight for more than two decades. A look back at Baby Doc…
Celebrate 1-11-11 with forbidden foods and sellout movies.
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The twitter-sphere clearly has an opinion about Palin’s arrival. The running joke Saturday afternoon: Haven’t Haitains already suffered enough?
Health experts have suspected for a while that Haiti’s cholera epidemic, which has upset the nation’s recovery after the Jan. 12 earthquake, came from a single source. Those suspicions have now been confirmed.
