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- 02-25-04 Civil War in Haiti Likely (CNN News)
"Anticipating the bloodbath predicted if political opposition leaders rejected the power-sharing proposal -- or if the rebels storm Port-au-Prince under any circumstances -- the Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders have begun to send aid workers to the tiny nation on the western end of the island of Hispaniola."
"Aristide has faced criticism since an election in 2000 that observers called fraudulent. Opposition parties accuse his supporters of using violence to intimidate them. He has said repeatedly that he will not willingly step aside until his term of office expires in 2006." 2-04
- 03-01-04 Haitian President Forced Out? (CNN News)
"Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide said Monday he was forced to leave Haiti in a 'coup d'etat' by the United States." 2-04
- Haiti in Crisis from Hurricane Jeanne (MSNBC News)
"Hungry, thirsty and increasingly desperate residents attacked each other in a panic to get scarce food and water Thursday as workers struggled to bury hundreds of corpses six days after the city was struck by Tropical Storm Jeanne." 9-04
- Editorial - Haiti: Right Result for the Wrong Reason (Americas.IRC.org)
"On February 7, Haitian voters went to the polls to elect a president for the fourth time since 1990. Through great patience and determination they overcame official disorganization, incompetence, and discrimination, and handed their chosen candidate a landslide victory. Also for the fourth time, Haitian elites—with support from the international community—immediately began to undercut the victory, seeking at the negotiation table what they could not win at the polls." 02-06
- -02-20-06 Haiti Election Chief Flees (USA Today)
"The head of Haiti's electoral council fled the country after opponents threatened his life and burned down his farmhouse nearly two weeks after disputed elections, an official said Monday."
" 'If Mr. Bernard leaves Haiti, it will be catastrophic because he is the only man on the council who was professional,' said Micha Gaillard, spokesman for the Fusion party. 'Without him we fear we could be in a situation where the legislative results will not be published.' " 02-06
- -01-18-10 Infection in Haiti Out of Control (CNN News)
"Victims of the quake are slowly dying." 01-10
- -01-18-10 Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carriers May Have Water for Haiti (Time.com)
"Sitting off the coast of Haiti, the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Carl Vinson can make some 400,000 gallons of its own fresh water every day, and much of it will soon be going ashore. The nuclear-powered vessel, which had been heading to its new home port in San Diego when it was diverted to Haiti hours after the quake, has massive desalination capacity — purifying the same ocean saltwater it traverses — and the Vinson has a daily excess of 200,000 gallons 'that we can give away,' says Cmdr. William McKinley, who oversees the desalination process." 01-10
- -Aid in Haiti Elusive (MSNBC News)
"The world still can't get enough food and water to the hungry and thirsty one week after an earthquake shattered Haiti's capital. The airport remains a bottleneck, the port is a shambles. The Haitian government is invisible, nobody has taken firm charge, and the police have largely given up." 01-10
- -001 Donate to Relief for Haiti (HopeforHaitiNow.org)
"This is your time to help."
"100% of funds raised will go towards relief efforts in Haiti and there are NO backend costs. Additionally, the Entertainment Industry Foundation has waived all administrative fees." 01-10
- -001 Relief for Haiti Concert and News(CNN News)
Provides a sample of entertainment from the concert plus news about the current situation. 01-10
- Haiti: One Who Is Making a Difference (MSNBC News)
Follows Allen Arman, a man who went to Haiti with a backpack and a blackberry to help. 01-10
- -01-25-10 Haiti: Desperate Need for Infrastructure (CBS News)
"To see crowds growing and pushing outside the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince, you'd think the biggest job for America's military and diplomats is handling the tears and tempers of people desperate to get to U.S. shores, reports CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker. But their biggest concern is getting this country, knocked to its knees, back on its feet. The first order of business is infrastructure repair."
"Top five is the port, the airfield, the electrical grid, the road system and the water system," said Col. Rick Kaiser with the Army Corp of Engineers." 01-10
- -01-26-10 Young Boy Raises $220,000 for Haiti (CNN News)
"He's no Wyclef Jean or George Clooney, but that hasn't stopped the British 7-year-old from raising more than £136,000 ($220,000) for victims of the Haiti earthquake."
"[Charlie] Simpson, who's from Fulham, West London, started out hoping to raise just £500 -- around $800 -- for UNICEF's earthquake appeal by cycling five miles around a local park." 01-10
- -01-30-10 Haiti's Capital Becoming a Cashless City (PBS.org)
"The realities of the Port-au-Prince economy are brutally simple: Hundreds of thousands of workers have had no wages for weeks. The banks are mostly closed. The wire transfer businesses can't give Haitians money wired in from abroad fast enough." 01-10
- -02-02-10 Chaos Eases in Haiti (New York Times)
"Four days into a new food distribution program from the United Nations that aims to repair a faltering aid effort, paper coupons that can be redeemed for 55 pounds of rice have become more valuable than Haitian money." 01-10
- Haiti (LonelyPlanet.com)
Provides information on the history, culture, people, geography, and a map.
- Haiti
- Aristide, Jean-Bertrand (Haiti.org)
Provides a profile by the government of Haiti.
- 02-29-04 Aristide Flees Haiti (BBC News)
"As the barricades burned in the capital city around him, and with a rebel army on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Jean-Bertrand Aristide fought for his political life as Haitian president right until the end." 2-04
- Haiti's History of Misery (Time.com)
"Christopher Columbus sights Haiti in 1492. After the Island becomes a Spanish Colony, disease and harsh working conditions devastate the indigenous population." 01-10
- Rulers by Country - G-I (Schulz)
Provides a list of leaders by country and date. Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Iran, Israel, and Italy. leaders, rulers, Presidents, and Prime Ministers 9-00
- Editorial - Destabilization or Reconstruction? (BBC News - Reynolds)
"On the one side is the Iraqi resistance. Its policy is to cause chaos in the hope that out of the wreckage, the occupation will end and perhaps even that Saddam Hussein himself will be propelled back to power."
"On the other are the Coalition or occupation authorities and their Iraqi allies. They hope to transfer power by the end of next year and in the meantime are pouring in money to rebuild the basic infrastructure."
Reynolds quotes US diplomat James Dobbins to summarize the situation: " 'Nation-building is not principally about economic reconstruction: rather it is about political transformation. The spread of democracy in Latin America, Asia and parts of Africa suggests that this form of government is not unique to Western culture or to advanced industrial economies: Democracy can, indeed, take root in circumstances where neither exists.' "
"What principally distinguishes Germany, Japan, Bosnia and Kosovo from Somalia, Haiti and Afghanistan are not their levels of Western culture, economic development or cultural homogeneity," he says.
"Rather it is the level of effort the United States and the international community put into their democratic transformations."10-03
- Hurricanes in 2004 (BBC News)
"As Haiti struggles with the effects of Tropical Storm Jeanne, BBC News Online looks at the latest hurricanes and storms which have battered Central and North America."
"Jeanne, though not as powerful as other hurricanes this season, has proved to be the deadliest, killing more than 600 people." 9-04
- Wolff: Global Food System Can't Survive (CNN News)
"As the nation marks World Hunger Relief Week, more people are asking: Why are so many people starving and what, if anything, can be done to eradicate hunger?"
"Wolff thinks hunger can be conquered. Her group produces 'Medika Mamba,' energy dense, peanut butter food that's designed to ensure Haitian children survive childhood. Medika Mamba is easy to make, store, preserve and distribute, she says."
"Patel says '2008 was a record year in terms of harvest. There's more food per person in 2008 than there's ever been in history. The problem is not food, but how we distribute it.' " 11-08
- -Earthquake Predicted for Mississippi Delta (ABC News)
"One of the strongest series of earthquakes ever to hit the United States happened not in Alaska or along California's San Andreas fault, but in southeast Missouri along the Mississippi River."
"Geologists consider the New Madrid fault line a major seismic zone and predict that an earthquake roughly the magnitude of the Haiti earthquake (7.0 on the Richter scale) could occur in the area during the next 50 years." 01-10
- Timberlake, Justin (MTV.com)
Provides Timberlake's Hallelujah song at the Hope for Haiti Now Concert. 01-10
- 02-24-04 Opposition Rejects U.S. Plan for Peace (MercuryNews.com)
"Haiti's opposition coalition is drafting a letter to the United States rejecting the U.S.-backed international peace plan because it does not require that President Jean-Bertrand Aristide resign, a prominent member of the coalition told The Associated Press."
"On Monday, Powell had asked the opposition to delay their formal response by 24 hours until 5 p.m. local time Tuesday, as he sought to address their fears that Aristide would not keep to the peace plan, which allowed him to remain president with diminished powers, sharing government with the opposition." 2-04
- Aristide, Jean-Bertrand (BBC News)
Provides a profile by BBC News. 2-04
- The Myth About Dead Bodies (CBS News)
"The myth of dead bodies is that they present a communicable disease hazard. The rush to dispose of dead bodies in a mass grave is a regrettable one, says the International Rescue Committee's Gerald Martone." 02-10
- Medika Mamba to Combat Malnutrition (MedsandFoodforKids.org)
"MFK combats childhood malnutrition using an innovative new approach: Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF). Our product is Medika Mamba, an energy dense peanut butter, significantly fortified with protein and nutritional supplements. The name Medika Mamba means 'peanut butter medicine' in the Haitian Creole language."
"Finally, Medika Mamba is produced in Haiti. We benefit the Haitian economy by employing and purchasing locally, and we work extensively with farmers to improve their agricultural practices." 11-08
- Medika Mamba to Combat Malnutrition (Washington University in St. Louis)
"The mixture, known to Haitians as "Medika Mamba," or peanut-butter medicine, is a nutrient-rich mixture of peanuts, sugar, oil, vitamins, minerals and powdered milk. It is distributed in plastic containers for families to feed their children at home and can be stored for several months."
"The program stems from one started in 2001 by Mark J. Manary, M.D., professor of pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Manary's Project Peanut Butter, which uses the same nutrient-rich mixture, fed 1,000 Malawi children in the first two years, and continues to nourish thousands of starving children in the southeastern African country. Researchers found that the RUTF, also known by its brand name, Plumpy'Nut, significantly reduced childhood mortality rates from malnutrition and related diseases." 11-08
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