Author Belen Fernandez warns against believing everything you read about the happenings in Haiti. In an op-ed piece on Aljazeera.com, the American-born writer blasts a naïve Western media that so readily painted a picture of a country overrun by looters and at the mercy of gang members and other criminals following the massive earthquake to [...]
Former Haiti Prime Minister Smarck Michel, Dead at 75
September 5, 2012 | Posted by
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Smarck Michel, a businessman who served for almost a year as Haiti’s prime minister after the United States restored President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power in the mid-1990s, died at his home here on Saturday. He was 75. The cause was a brain tumor, his son, Kenneth, said. Mr. Michel became prime [...]
