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Haitian businessman gets life sentence in 2021 assassination of Haiti’s president

June 5, 2023 Gisela Salomon, Associated Press

MIAMI — A federal judge in Miami sentenced a Haitian-Chilean businessman Friday to life in prison for his role in helping Colombian mercenaries get weapons to assassinate Haitian President Jovenel Moïse in 2021. Rodolphe Jaar, […]

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US says it will expand, extend temporary status for Haitians

December 9, 2022 Elliot Spagat, Associated Press

SAN DIEGO — The Biden administration said Monday that it would expand temporary legal status for Haitians already living in the United States, determining conditions in the Caribbean nation were too dangerous for their forced […]

Officials: Thousands of Haitian migrants being released in US

September 22, 2021 Elliot Spagat, Maria Verza and Juan a. Lozano, Associated Press

DEL RIO, Texas — Many Haitian migrants camped in a small Texas border town are being released in the United States, two U.S. officials said, undercutting the Biden administration’s public statements that the thousands in […]

Haiti police commit more units to protecting earthquake aid

August 25, 2021 Evens Sanon, Associated Press

LES CAYES, Haiti — Haiti’s National Police announced Monday that it had deployed additional units south of the capital to protect aid shipments being taken to the country’s earthquake-damaged southwestern peninsula. The announcement came one […]

Death toll of powerful earthquake in Haiti soars to 1,297

August 16, 2021 Evens Sanon and Mark Stevenson, Associated Press

LES CAYES, Haiti — The death toll from a 7.2-magnitude earthquake in Haiti climbed to 1,297 on Sunday, a day after the powerful temblor turned thousands of structures into rubble and set off franctic rescue […]

New Haiti leader with international backing to take charge

July 20, 2021 Danica Coto, Associated Press

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A new prime minister supported by key international diplomats will take charge of Haiti, an official said Monday — a move that appeared aimed at averting a leadership struggle following the assassination […]

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Surge in violence rattles Haiti as poverty, fear deepens

April 22, 2021 Evens Sanon, Associated Press

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The attack was brazen, streamed live on the internet: Men carrying big guns walked into a church service, grabbed the pastor and three parishioners and led them away in full view of […]