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Members of the Haitian Color Guard lower the flag in front of the National Palace in Port-au-Prince

The Ruins Of Haiti’s National Palace Gives Way To Hope For A New Tomorrow

The sight of it was one of the more lasting images of the January 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti. Its tattered national palace was in many ways symbolic of the impoverished country’s plight following the quake that was responsible for the deaths of more than 300,000 people and left roughly a million more homeless. But [...]

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Soccer Stadium Planned for Haiti’s Notorious Cite Soleil Shantytown

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) A local sports hero, a New York real estate developer and a well-known architect are teaming up to build a soccer stadium in Haiti’s notorious Cite Soleil, hoping to revive the seaside shantytown known throughout the hemisphere for its extreme poverty and gang battles. Foreign investors in Haiti have largely directed their [...]