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    Feb 24, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  1. Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille resigns

    World Now
    Haiti's political instability deepened Friday with the sudden resignation of Prime Minister Garry Conille, who took the job less than five months ago. Conille was reportedly under enormous pressure from President Michel Martelly to quit....
    2. Jan 12, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  2. Haiti, two years after devastating earthquake

    World Now
    Two years after an earthquake devastated Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, there has been progress, including elections. But much is left to do, with half a million people who lost their homes still living in squalid camps....
    3. Jan 11, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  3. Brazil announces plan to rein in immigration from Haiti

    World Now
    REPORTING FROM RIO DE JANEIRO -- Brazil has announced plans to grant amnesty to thousands of Haitian immigrants but deport any who cross the border from Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia without visas in the future. Brazil will issue 100 visas a month in Port-au-...
    4. Feb 26, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. New Zealand quake raises questions about L.A. buildings

    The level of devastation from this week's earthquake in New Zealand has some California scientists saying that the state's seismic building codes should be reevaluated to address the striking structural failures seen in Christchurch.
    The level of devastation from this week's earthquake in New Zealand has some California scientists saying that the state's seismic building codes should be reevaluated to address the striking structural failures seen in Christchurch. In New Zealand,...

    Tags: Education, Canterbury, Science and Technology, Structural Failures, New Zealand Earthquake (2011)

    5. Aug 6, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  5. 'If I Was President': Wyclef Jean sets eyes on Haiti

    La Plaza
    Only a day into his run, the entertainer is already facing resistance in the thorny world of Haitian politics. For starters, an electoral council must validate whether Jean meets the qualifications to be a candidate. If he is certified as a candidate, he'...
    6. Sep 15, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. There's no plan in sight for Haiti's homeless

    Reconstruction of this earthquake-crippled nation hangs on a simple, potentially explosive question: Who owns the land?
    Reconstruction of this earthquake-crippled nation hangs on a simple, potentially explosive question: Who owns the land? Take this spot below the city's main transmission lines off the Delmas 33 road. Before the earthquake eight months ago, goats grazed...

    Tags: Politics, Science and Technology, International Organizations, Fishing, Migration

    7. Feb 25, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  7. New Zealand shows even strong building codes are no match for monster earthquake, experts say [Update]

    L.A. NOW
    The devastation and loss of life in the Christchurch, New Zealand, quakes offer some sober lessons for California, earthquake experts said. The damage shows that a sharp earthquake in a highly vulnerable area can get the better of strong seismic......
    8. Nov 17, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  8. Cholera detected in the Dominican Republic

    La Plaza
    A case of cholera has been detected in the Dominican Republic, the first sign that the worsening epidemic in neighboring Haiti could be crossing the border shared by the island nations. The cholera case was diagnosed in a 32-year-old Haitian man who works...
    9. Jan 18, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  9. Will Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier catch the first plane out of Haiti?

    Opinion L.A.
    Tuesday's editorial about Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier's surprise return to Haiti said bluntly that the former dictator should get the heck out of town before he creates more chaos and corruption on the island already desperate for help. And it......
    10. Jan 18, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  10. The Conversation: The unpredictable Golden Globes

    Opinion L.A.
    Forget the razzle-dazzle of Angelina Jolie's and Anne Hathaway's sequin dresses, or even who won awards at Sunday's Golden Globes. Two days later, people are still talking about the program's most unexpected moments. And by moments, we do mean Ricky......
    11. Jan 12, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  11. Haiti quake: A year later, journalists look back

    Readers' Representative Journal
    On Jan. 12, 2010, a massive earthquake devastated Haiti, killing more than 300,000 people. A year later, Times journalists who covered the disaster shared their recollections and reported on what life is like in Haiti today. In a front-page article......
    12. Oct 31, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. Discoveries

    <b>Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work by Edwidge Danticat</b> ( Princeton University Press: 181 pp., $19.95) &quot;Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. This is what I've always thought it meant to be a writer. Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them."Edwidge Danticat grew up in Haiti in the 1970s, under the dictatorship of Jean-Claude Duvalier. Danticat was born in 1969, but the story of the 1964 public execution of revolutionaries Marcel Numa and Louis Drouin was her creation myth &#8212; their courage, she writes, like the courage it must have taken Eve to take a bite of the apple; their deaths like Adam and Eve's expulsion from Eden. Danticat moved from Haiti to Brooklyn when she was 12. The beloved elderly uncle who had cared for her when her parents moved in 1971 to Brooklyn was persecuted by local gangs in Port-au-Prince, sought asylum in the U.S., was interrogated by U.S. officials, brutally incarcerated in Miami and died within days of his arrival. (She tells his story in her 2007 memoir, "Brother, I'm Dying.") Many of her loved ones, including two cousins, Maxo and his 10-year-old son, Nozial, were killed in this year's earthquake. In these essays, Danticat tells the stories of fellow Haitians: Alerte Belance, brutally hacked by machetes during the 1991 military coup; the journalist Jean Dominique, assassinated in 2000; and others. "The immigrant artist shares with all the other artists the desire to interpret and possibly remake his or her own world." These essays, reminiscent of Maurice Blanchot's "The Writing of the Disaster," (1980) are full of the images that have formed Danticat, the writer. She rearranges them in a collage. Haitians say that Haiti is "te, glise," she writes, "slippery ground." These essays are her effort to hold onto and even re-create her homeland.
    Special to the Los Angeles Times
    Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work by Edwidge Danticat ( Princeton University Press: 181 pp., $19.95) "Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. This is what I've always thought it meant to be a writer. Writing, knowing in part...

    Tags: Education, Politics, Jean-Claude Duvalier, Winslow Homer, Mickey Mantle

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