By Isabeau Doucet, Green Left
On July 12, six months to the day after January’s earth­quake, the Hait­ian gov­ern­ment held a cer­e­mony behind the crum­bled National Palace.
Before …

By Clement Sabourin (AFP)
PORT-AU-PRINCE — They’ve been forced to swap school books for pis­tols, home­work for hold-ups and drug-dealing: with no par­ents, some of Haiti’s …

HIP — Port au Prince, Haiti
Despite the twists and turns of what res­i­dents describe as sev­eral for­eign inter­ven­tions, mem­bers of the com­mu­nity still recount with …

by LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO
Jean-Cyril Pres­soir for NPR

Jean-Cyril Pres­soir for NPR

Jean-Cyril Pres­soir for NPR
A young man laughs as chil­dren swim next to a pier in Cite Soleil.
Jean-Cyril Pres­soir for NPR
Fish­er­men sing …

In Haiti, UN recov­ers 2 high-powered weapons taken dur­ing attack
The Asso­ci­ated Press
Fri­day, Jan­u­ary 12, 2007
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti
Res­i­dents of a gang-controlled slum sur­ren­dered two high-powered rifles Fri­day, three weeks …