Showing articles 1 - 20 of 373 (sorted by date).
| 1 |  | 2008-09-16: Witnessing the Destruction in Haiti by Rep. Donna F. Edwards |  |
| I witnessed the destruction-- bridges and roads destroyed, water, sewer, and power infrastructure destroyed, virtually all of the rice and food crop under water, animal carcasses scattered across the countryside, hundreds dead and thousands homeless. | Rating: 3 |
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| 2 |  | 2008-09-09: Government Blocked Pre-Positioning of Relief Supplies by Kathie Klarreich, Time Magazine |  |
| For two years the Preval goverment has not granted Southcom title to land for a warehouse. Southcom has built many others throughout the Caribbean. | Rating: 3 |
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| 3 |  | 2008-08-17: Preval Has Little Political Backing Besides the Foreigners by Robert Benodin, Radio Classique Inter |  |
| Even as he seeks total power Preval is weak. He cannot recover the political base that put him in power. He cannot create a base of his own. He is only kept in power by the conservative policy of sticking with "the devil you know." | Rating: 5 |
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| 4 |  | 2008-06-20: Next Steps for Haiti Act by Rep. Alcee Hastings et al. |  |
| The bill pays Haitian Americans to return to Haiti and help the country recover and grow in key fields and industries. | Rating: 3 |
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| 5 |  | 2008-06-11: U.S. Legislative Responses to the Crisis by Clare Ribando Seelke and Jeff Hornbeck, Congressional Research Service |  |
| Haiti faces several interrelated crises, the most imminent being a deepening food crisis. | Rating: 3 |
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| 6 |  | 2008-04-17: Unrest in Haiti by Economist Intelligence Unit |  |
| Reviews chronic weakness and instability of Haiti's political institutions, recommends that the international community head off a further crisis and keep Haiti's political system from a complete meltdown. | Rating: 4 |
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| 7 |  | 2008-03-01: A Haiti Chronicle--First Publication On-line by Daniel Whitman |  |
| The Haiti project is proud to republish on-line this, the single best book on the unraveling of Preval's last presidency. The violence, the fear, the U.S. policy debacle--it is all here, but so are the admirable civility and tenacity of the Haitians. | Rating: 5 |
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| 8 |  | 2007-12-30: A Haiti Chronicle--Half Price by Daniel Whitman |  |
| You've verified the quality of the book but don't feel like reading 304 pages on-line. Click here to get it at 52 percent off. Only from haitipolicy.org | Rating: 5 |
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| 9 |  | 2007-06-15: High-Level Conference on Caribbean by U.S. and Caribbean governments |  |
| Focus on U.S.-Caribbean relationship. Caribbean presidents including Preval and Bush attended. Washington, June 19-21 | Rating: 2 |
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| 10 |  | 2007-06-15: Legislative Forum on Caribbean by Institute of Caribbean Studies |  |
| Parallel with the official Caribbean Conference is this legislative forum on June 19 | Rating: 3 |
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| 11 |  | 2007-05-16: Briefing House Foreign Affairs Committee by webmaster |  |
| When the Western Hemisphere subcommittee staff asked for a briefing by Haiti Democracy Project election observers, they got an earful. Slide show of our visit March 26. | Rating: 5 |
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| 12 |  | 2007-05-09: President Preval at White House by Oval Office |  |
| President Bush: I thank you for having one of the toughest jobs in the world, and that is to bring prosperity and security to your country. President Preval: I would particularly like to thank President Bush for the HOPE bill. . . Peace has been restored. | Rating: 2 |
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| 13 |  | 2007-03-08: Haiti is the Star at Western Hemisphere Subcommittee Hearing by webmaster |  |
| On March 13 the subcommittee held its first country-specific hearing of the year--on Haiti. Wyclef Jean and AID Latin America administrator Adolfo Franco testified to great effect. | Rating: 3 |
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| 14 |  | 2007-03-07: Air Smuggling of Cocaine Surging by Drug Enforcement Agency |  |
| Haiti is a major transit country for cocaine from South America. Air smuggling out of Venezuela is surging. The new government is struggling to overcome pervasive corruption, weak governance and mismanagement. | Rating: 3 |
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| 15 |  | 2007-03-05: Statement on Haiti by Rep. Eliot L. Engel |  |
| It’s important that we let Haitians know that the U.S. will stand by them for the long haul this time. | Rating: 3 |
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| 16 |  | 2007-02-25: Observers Brief State Department: Slides by webmaster |  |
| Following the release of their report the Haiti Democracy Project election observers are invited to brief the State Department's democracy bureau. | Rating: 5 |
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| 17 |  | 2007-01-26: Observers Brief State Department by webmaster |  |
| Nineteen of our election observers confer with the Democracy and Human Rights bureau at the State Department. | Rating: 5 |
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| 18 |  | 2007-01-14: Haiti Democracy Project Founder To Strive for Iraq Reconciliation by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Washington Post |  |
| The president who came in deriding the very idea of nation-building now names one of America's premier nation-builders, Amb. Timothy M. Carney, to the foundering cause of Iraq. | Rating: 3 |
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| 19 |  | 2006-11-27: HOPE Bill Faces Hurdles by Greg Hitt, Wall Street Journal |  |
| The fate of the textile trade bill to benefit the Haitian economy is expected to be decided in Early December 2006. Although some in the U.S. Congress see "moral and foreign-policy reasons for helping Haiti," others oppose. | Rating: 3 |
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| 20 |  | 2006-11-17: Elections Have Impelled Haiti Forward by James Morrell, project director, in Latin America Adviser |  |
| A rare legitimate government in Haiti is making strides but desperately needs to show something concrete. The U.S. has dithered for two years with a minimal trade concession that could revive a whole Haitian industry. | Rating: 5 |
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