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    Apr 5, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  1. Haiti: Michel Martelly wins presidential election, but who will be prime minister?

    Opinion L.A.
    Michel “Sweet Micky” Martelly appears to be the winner in Haiti’s presidential election. The popular Kompa singer turned political candidate captured nearly twice as many votes as his opponent, former first lady and academic Mirlande...
    2. Oct 31, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Discoveries

    <b>Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work by Edwidge Danticat</b> ( 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 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: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Migration, Haiti, Germany, Immigration

    3. Feb 18, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  3. Wes Craven's retirement plan? 'My goal is die in my 90s on the set' [UPDATED]

    The Hero Complex
    "MERCHANT OF NIGHTMARES: A TRIBUTE TO WES CRAVEN" AT THE AERO THEATRE For close to four decades, Wes Craven has been a true master of screen terror with films such as “The Last House on the Left,” “The Hills Have......
    4. May 9, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune

  4. Ex-Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide appears in court, draws crowd

    Miami Herald
    Along Rue Champ de Mars, he waved to cheering crowds from his slow-moving, police-escorted motorcade. And in Bel Air and St. Martin, gang-infested former strongholds overlooking the empty grounds of the razed presidential palace, he blew kisses from the...

    Tags: Religion and Belief, Justice and Rights, Haiti, Human Rights, Entertainment

    5. May 8, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune

  5. Ex-Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in court

    Miami Herald
    Haiti's reclusive former president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, made a rare public appearance Wednesday, showing up at about 8:15 a.m. at the main Port-au-Prince courthouse to answer an investigative judge's summons. With hundreds of sympathizers, including...

    Tags: Justice and Rights, Haiti, Human Rights, Entertainment, Justice System

    6. Jan 16, 2013 |Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel

  6. Former Outlaws gang leader defends himself in bizarre trial

    The main clue this was no average trial came when the defendant &ndash; acting as his own attorney &ndash; told the jury: "What we have here is the tail end of a 32-year CIA conspiracy."
    The main clue this was no average trial came when the defendant – acting as his own attorney – told the jury: "What we have here is the tail end of a 32-year CIA conspiracy." Thor Hansen, 68, is no average guy and while the charge against...

    Tags: Prisons, Justice System, Trials, Central Intelligence Agency, Fort Lauderdale

    7. Nov 20, 2012 |Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel

  7. Outlaws gang leader demands his day in U.S. court after 30 years

    Many criminals have fled South Florida to avoid being brought to justice, but maybe none has fought as hard as Thor Hansen did to come back to the U.S. last week &mdash; deliberately to be arrested.
    Many criminals have fled South Florida to avoid being brought to justice, but maybe none has fought as hard as Thor Hansen did to come back to the U.S. last week — deliberately to be arrested. It's just another chapter in an extraordinarily...

    Tags: Trials, Drug Trafficking, Fort Lauderdale, Immigration, International Law

    8. Oct 9, 2011 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  8. 10 things you might not know about running

    The Chicago marathon, a world-renowned running event, takes place Sunday. Interested in runners' trivia? Here are 10 things to jog your imagination:
    The Chicago marathon, a world-renowned running event, takes place Sunday. Interested in runners' trivia? Here are 10 things to jog your imagination: 1 The verb "run" has 645 meanings, more than any other word in the Oxford English Dictionary. In addition...

    Tags: Marathon, High School Sports, Minority Groups, African Americans, 2016 Olympic Games

    9. Jan 18, 2011 |Story| KTLA-LTV

  9. Ousted Dictator "Baby Doc" Duvalier Taken to Court

    PORT-AU-PRINCE -- Haitian police led ex-dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier out of his hotel and took him to court Tuesday without saying whether he was being charged with crimes committed under his brutal regime.
    Associated Press
    PORT-AU-PRINCE -- Haitian police led ex-dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier out of his hotel and took him to court Tuesday without saying whether he was being charged with crimes committed under his brutal regime. A contingent of police led the former dictator...

    Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Justice and Rights, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Vehicles, Haiti

    10. May 18, 2011 |Story| Hola Hoy
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    11. Apr 5, 2011 |Story| Hola Hoy
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    Tags: Radio, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Heads of State, Entertainment, Elections

    12. Feb 14, 2004 |Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel

  12. Haití se cubre de sangre

    el Sentinel
    Haití, el país más pobre del hemisferio, donde su gente debe sobrevivir con menos de un dólar al día, se ha convertido estas últimas semanas en escenario de violentos enfrentamientos entre millones de haitianos desesperados y hambrientos, y el gobierno...

    Tags: Heads of State, Government

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