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Goodbye 'Sweet Micky'? Martelly Serious About Leading Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- On the Sunday night before the announcement of Haiti's preliminary election results, tensions ran high. The candidates faced a troubled electoral system, an impatient population, the never-ending sense that what can go wrong, will. At 9 p.m., hip-hop star Pras Michel took to Twitter: RT...

Haiti Choosing President Amid Uncertainty, Anger

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- One candidate is a musician with a bad-boy past. The other is a former first lady with a long political resume. Haiti's voters will choose one of them Sunday to lead a country where anger with the government runs deep and nearly a million people are living on the streets. The election, already...

Aristide's Return a Resurrection for Poor Haitians Like Gaston

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Gaston Charles walked five miles in the early morning light to see former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide as he returned from exile. Not even to see him. Just to stand outside his house. Aristide was elected twice in Haiti; once in 1990 and again in 2000. He was overthrown twice. He is a divisive...

Voices of Haiti Speak Out on Presidential Politics

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Aug. 6) -- Around the crumbled National Palace at Champ de Mars Plaza, politics is always a hot topic of conversation. This week conversations could be overheard about current Haitian President Rene Preval, the Americans, Hugo Chavez and Venezuela, ousted former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide and...

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05/21/12 Ex-Haiti official, 9 years in telecom bribery case Source: FOX - WDRB 41 News - Louisville KY A former senior executive at Haiti's state-run telecommunications company was sentenced Monday to nine years in federal prison for money laundering offenses tied to nearly $500,000 in bribes he accepted from U.S. businesses.
05/17/12 HaÃ¯ti, Africa, Aristide: The history of one humanity Source: Pambazuka News Since the time when the Africans, forced against their will to live in Saint Domingue (Haiti), revolted to end slavery (1791-1804) without the endorsement of abolitionists, these latter, and the allies of those who lost that battle, organised so that the emancipation of humanity would happen according to their will.
05/14/12 AU - On the Judicial Harassment of Human Rights... Source: Namibia News On September 30, 1991, Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide fled Haiti for Venezuela.

Background on Jean Bertrand Aristide

Jean-Bertrand Aristide (born 15 July 1953) is a Haitian former Catholic priest and politician who served as Haiti's first democratically elected president.

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