November 30, 2010
Categories: Elections
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Election workers and party monitors counted ballots on Sunday by the light of battery-powered lamps and candles at the Lycee Pétionville in Pétionville. Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times Advertisement PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Two-thirds of Haiti’s presidential candidates said Sunday’s election was so tainted by fraud that it should be invalidated, but late in the […]
November 30, 2010
Categories: Elections
Tags: 2010 elections, election riots
Polls closed on schedule around Haiti at 4 p.m. Sunday amid chaos, confusion and isolated instances of violence. Hours earlier, a dozen of the 19 presidential candidates called for “peaceful protests” against “massive fraud” in the country’s presidential and legislative elections. Jacqueline Charles and Trenton Daniel – Miami Herald. PORT-AU-PRINCE — Polls closed on schedule […]
November 30, 2010
Categories: Elections
Tags: 2015 elections, elections
“A colorful group of people are running in a complicated Haitian presidential race where the stakes are high in Sunday’s elections. Each represents a different segment of Haitian society. With observers saying the race will go to a Jan. 16 runoff, five have shown themselves to be strong competitors with the chance to emerge among […]
November 30, 2010
Categories: Medicine and Health
Tags: cholera
The death toll from a cholera outbreak in Haiti has leapt past 250. More than 3,000 people are infected, said Gabriel Thimote, director general of Haiti’s health department. Five cases of cholera were detected in the capital, Port-au-Prince, but UN officials said the patients had been quickly diagnosed and isolated. Officials say the disease is […]
November 30, 2010
Categories: Economy
Tags: 2015 elections
Add it to Haiti’s list: Already reeling from a catastrophic earthquake, one of the world’s poorest economies, storms, a deadly cholera epidemic and unrest over U.N. peacekeepers, the Caribbean nation could now be on the edge of full-on political turmoil. The chaos in Sunday’s voting united most of the top presidential candidates against the president’s […]