By Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald When a sitting Haitian president was assassinated in 1915, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sent in the Marines to protect American interests and secure stability. The military occupation, which lasted 19 years, marked the start of more than a century of close and controversial U.S. entanglement in the volatile internal affairs … Read more
By Danica Coto | Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — On a recent morning at a hospital in the heart of gang territory in Haiti’s capital, a woman began convulsing before her body went limp as a doctor and two nurses raced to save her. They stuck electrodes to her chest and flipped on an oxygen … Read more
A report published Thursday on the situation in Haiti, which is facing intense gang violence, by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights found that sexual violence there is “severely underreported.” The report said that according to the U.N. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), gangs in the Caribbean country … Read more
Please, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, don’t let Martha’s Vineyard have all the fun with illegal aliens. You must remember, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has more than 300 communities. And at least 20 or 30 of them are as deeply in need of a good, hard celebration of diversity as Martha’s Vineyard no doubt is. Governor, … Read more
By Jonel Aleccia | Associated Press Catastrophic hunger is so dire in two world hotspots that famine is imminent in northern Gaza and approaching in Haiti, with hundreds of thousands of people in both places struggling to avoid starvation. That’s according to international food security experts and aid groups, who are warning about the toll … Read more
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Paramedics carry the body of a person killed by gang members in Petionville, Port-au-Prince, Haiti AFP Fourteen bodies were found Monday in a suburb of Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, after an attack by gang members who have ravaged the country for weeks, an AFP correspondent reported. Local residents told AFP they did not know the circumstances … Read more
The recent gang violence in Haiti and the 2024 election heating up will likely be the focus of this week’s Sunday Shows. Haiti’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry announced he will resign on Tuesday amid the chaos in the Caribbean country, with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs saying in an update … Read more
Thus, the EU must opt for impactful solutions that are proven to work. One of these is a breakthrough, a simplified approach to tackling childhood acute malnutrition using Ready-to-Use-Therapeutic-Food — over 90 percent effective in saving lives and 20 percent more cost-effective. The IRC has recently launched a new effort, the Movement Against Malnutrition, to … Read more
By Evens Sanon, Joshua Goodman and Danica Coto | Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haiti’s embattled prime minister landed in Puerto Rico on Tuesday as he tried to return to Haiti to quell a surge in violent gang attacks, officials said. Officials told The Associated Press that Ariel Henry landed late in the afternoon at … Read more
