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CUBA, ALBA Send Aid Directly to Haiti

April 9, 2010

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  Cuba, ALBA send aid directly to Haiti by: W. T. Whitney Jr. April 6 2010 At a recent 136-nation UN conference, focused on reconstruction in Haiti, pledges from 59 nations and organizations came to $5.3 billion due within two years and $9.9 billion in ten years. The United States promised $1.15 billion, the European […]

Still Killing Them Not So Softly, Housing Still Elusive: “It’s Got the Makings of a Major Disaster”

March 12, 2010

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  2 months after Haiti quake, housing still elusive By BEN FOX and JONATHAN M. KATZ (AP) – 2 hours ago PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Trash and sewage are piling up at the squalid tent camps that hundreds of thousands have called home since Haiti’s devastating earthquake — and with torrential rains expected any day, authorities […]

HAITI VIDEO from Al Jazeera: “The Politics of Rebuilding” (Avi Lewis Reporting for Faultlines)

February 12, 2010

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Death Toll in Haiti Now Over 200,000

February 3, 2010

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  acnnews 8 Death Toll in Haiti Now Stands at over 200,000 HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 3 (acn) Haitian Prime Minister Jean Max Bellerive confirmed on Wednesday in Port-au-Prince that the number of deaths as a consequence of the earthquake that devastated that nation’s capital and several neighboring cities on January 12 has increased to over […]