Sean Penn’s nonprofit aid group J/P HRO will oversee the demolition of Haiti’s destroyed National Palace, the Haitian government announced yesterday. The demolition will begin in the next 10 days and will be done with no charge to the Haitian government, according to government spokesman Lucien Jura. The demolition is expected to take about two [...]
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