The U.S. embassy in Haiti urged the Caribbean country's politicians Sunday to find a solution to the political crisis that will soon see its parliament's mandate end, leaving a perilous political vacuum.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday urged Haiti to hold parliamentary elections as soon as possible to end a political crisis that has sparked violent protests in the impoverished Caribbean nation.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Haiti's emboldened opposition welcomed the resignation Sunday of Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe, who faced repeated calls to go over the failure to hold legislative elections in the past three years.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Haitian police and U.N. peacekeepers fired tear gas and clashed with several thousand opposition supporters who tried to march on the presidential palace Friday.
Despite a brief, hopeful window when it appeared that the overweight, overwhelmed dauphin might liberalize the country, the younger Duvalier soon followed in his father's violent footsteps. Tens of thousands of Haitians were killed under the regimes, with many more tortured, according to human-rights groups.
Haiti's ex-dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, who ruled the impoverished Caribbean nation from 1971 until his ouster in 1986, died Saturday of a heart attack, officials here said. He was 63.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged Haitian President Michel Martelly to hold parliamentary and local elections scheduled for the end of this month in a "timely fashion."
Tim Callaghan and Phil Gelman were both involved in relief efforts in one of the most high-profile, horrific disasters in the Western Hemisphere in the last five years: the Haiti earthquake and cholera outbreak in 2010.
Once a beacon of hope and salvation for the poor, former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is now facing a money laundering, corruption and drug trafficking probe, officials said Thursday.
