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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. -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 'Without him we fear we could be in a situation where the legislative results will not be published.'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

  5. -01-18-10 Infection in Haiti Out of Control (CNN News)
      "Victims of the quake are slowly dying." 01-10

  6. -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

  7. -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

  8. -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

  9. 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

  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

  11. -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

  12. -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

  13. -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

  14. -Haiti Updates (CNN News)
      Provides ongoing information and news about the situation in Haiti after the earthquake. 02-10

  15. -02-17-10 Haiti: A Nation of Amputees (Time.com)
      "It looks even harder after the earthquake, given the overwhelming demand for artificial limbs: of the 250,000 people injured, doctors estimate as many as 100,000 are amputees. And that doesn't count the victims who will probably need limbs amputated down the line because of wound infections."

      "(To get a sense of scale: the years of the war in Afghanistan and Iraq have, so far, produced just about 1,000 amputees among U.S. military personnel.)" 02-10

  16. We Are the World 25 for Haiti (YouTube.com)
      Sung by some of the most popular singers of 2010. 03-10

  17. Somos El Mundo Por Haiti (We Are the World for Haiti ) (YouTube.com)
      Sung by some of the most popular Hispanic or Latin singers of 2010. 03-10

  18. -10-17-10 Haiti: The Beginning of Rubble Removal (New York Times)
      When rubble removal finally became an urgent priority late this summer, only baby steps were taken."

      "At its September meeting, Haiti’s reconstruction commission, led by Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive and former President Bill Clinton, approved a $17 million United Nations Development Program plan to clean up six neighborhoods — an important project but only a small piece of the $1 billion in reconstruction projects approved to date." 10-10

  19. -12-23-10 Clinton's Apology and Haiti's Future (Change.org)
      "Former President Bill Clinton said at a recent Senate hearing that he regrets the impact in Haiti of the free trade policies that became a hallmark of his presidency."

      " 'It may have been good for some of my farmers in Arkansas, but it has not worked. It was a mistake,' Clinton said this month. 'I had to live everyday with the consequences of the loss of capacity to produce a rice crop in Haiti to feed those people because of what I did; nobody else.' "

      "Prior to the era of so-called 'free trade,' Haiti could feed itself, importing only 19% of its food and actually exporting rice. Today, Haiti imports more than half of its food, including 80% of the rice eaten in the country."

      "In fact, President Rene Preval, himself a rice grower, has asked for international food aid to be replaced by financial support for farmers and the re-development of the agricultural sector. Preval knows that sustained success in rebuilding depends on food sovereignty, or the ability for Haitian farmers to grow their own crops and feed their own communities." 12-10

  20. -12-07-11 Wheeler, Rachael: Builder of Homes in Haiti (MSNBC News)
      "The 12-year-old Florida resident has done more to aid others than many grown-ups do in a lifetime."

      "Three years ago, when she was only nine, Rachel tagged along with her mother to a very adult meeting about charity work in Haiti. She listened as Robin Mahfood, from the aid agency Food For The Poor, describe children so hungry that they eat cookies made of mud, so poor that they sleep in houses made of cardboard." 12-11

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