<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Haiti: News &amp; Videos about Haiti - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Haiti</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Haiti from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:56:08 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Haiti: News &amp; Videos about Haiti - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com//cnn/2009/HEALTH/10/28/floating.doctors.sailboat/tztop.floating.docs3.cnn.jpg</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Haiti</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Haiti from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Volunteer crew hopes to spread healing, keep it green</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/10/28/floating.doctors.sailboat/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/10/28/floating.doctors.sailboat/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The dream started inside a gray canvas backpack.</description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:25:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Man who set up home for kids in Haiti charged with sexual abuse</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/17/us.haiti.sex.abuse.charge/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/17/us.haiti.sex.abuse.charge/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>An American who founded a home for needy children in Haiti more than 10 years ago has been accused of sexually abusing some of the same boys he set out to help, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:11:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Clinton to be named U.N. envoy to Haiti</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/18/clinton.haiti/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/18/clinton.haiti/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Former U.S. President Clinton has been tapped as a United Nations special envoy to Haiti, a senior U.N. official said Monday.</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 23:20:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>'Misery breeds violence' in Haiti's seaside slum</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/05/11/icrc.haiti.red.cross/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/05/11/icrc.haiti.red.cross/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Roudeline Lamy was 23 when she was shot in the stomach. The impact of the bullet sent the small baby she was holding tumbling to the ground.</description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 08:23:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Clinton calls on donors to help Haiti</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/14/clinton.haiti/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/14/clinton.haiti/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on the international community Tuesday to commit dollars and manpower to help Haiti recover from a year of hurricanes and food riots.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>In Haiti, patients despair of adequate health care</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/13/haiti.crisis/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/13/haiti.crisis/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>From victims of gunshot wounds and domestic violence to common road injuries, Trinite Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti is inundated with trauma cases daily.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:52:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Search teams shift to recovery in Haiti</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/11/11/haiti.school.collapse/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/11/11/haiti.school.collapse/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Haitian and international search-and-rescue officials told reporters Monday that they have done all they can to ensure no survivors remain under the rubble of a school that collapsed last week.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:34:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Officials not expecting more survivors in Haiti school collapse</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/11/10/haiti.school.collapse/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/11/10/haiti.school.collapse/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Rescue officials said Monday they don't expect to find any more survivors at a Haitian school that collapsed last week, indicating efforts will now be focused on recovering bodies.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:32:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Frantic volunteers rush Haiti school ruins</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/11/09/haiti.school.collapse/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/11/09/haiti.school.collapse/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Frantic relatives of people believed trapped in the rubble of a collapsed school picked at the ruins with shovels and hammers Sunday before being pushed back by police amid new safety concerns.</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:59:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Death toll climbs as search continues in Haiti collapse</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/11/08/haiti.school.collapse/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/11/08/haiti.school.collapse/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The death toll rose to 84 Saturday night in the collapse of a Haitian school as international aid crews continued sifting through the wreckage, a local journalist said Saturday night.</description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 04:20:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Death toll from Haiti storms nearly 800</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/10/04/haiti.missing.floods.storms/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/10/04/haiti.missing.floods.storms/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The death toll from a string of hurricanes and tropical storms in Haiti has risen to nearly 800 people, an official with the Haitian Red Cross says.</description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:55:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Haiti's woes and you</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/09/29/farrow.haiti/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/09/29/farrow.haiti/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>I have just returned from my latest trip as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. Once again I found myself in one of the world's poorest countries; once again I held children with stick limbs and distended bellies.</description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:26:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Haitian City Encased in Mud Needs Global Help</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1844929,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1844929,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>The U.N. World Food Program's director flew to a Haitian city still encased in mud Friday to draw global attention to the ongoing disaster that has enormously complicated the country's struggle to feed itself</description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Desperation grows as flooded Haiti city awaits aid</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/09/09/haiti.gonaives.flood/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/09/09/haiti.gonaives.flood/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Four major storms have raked the desperately poor country of Haiti in the past month, leaving at least 341 people dead.</description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:32:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Haiti Gets No Mercy from Hanna, Ike 
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1839710,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1839710,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Hurricanes have devastated the country least able to cope, posing an epic challenge to its troubled political class
</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Aid Workers Race to Help Haiti</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1839301,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1839301,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>U.N. peacekeepers and aid groups struggled to feed thousands of Haitians left hungry by Tropical Storm Hanna, but had yet to reach thousands even as powerful Hurricane Ike approached the nation</description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Haiti gets much-needed hurricane relief supplies</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/09/05/haiti.aid/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/09/05/haiti.aid/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A ship carrying U.N. relief supplies, including food and water, arrived Friday in the hurricane-ravaged Haitian city of Gonaives, an official with the United Nations' World Food Programme said.</description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:55:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hanna Kills 13 in Haiti, Heads for US</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1838183,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1838183,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Families clutched mattresses, chairs and other belongings and slogged through waist-high floodwaters Tuesday as Tropical Storm Hanna killed at least 13 people in northern Haiti</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hanna, Ike Moving Westward</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1837992,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1837992,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Hurricane Hanna slumped to tropical storm strength while grinding away at the Bahamas and other Atlantic islands on Tuesday, while also threatening the U.S. East Coast</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Gustav blamed for 22 deaths as it batters Caribbean</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/weather/08/27/gustav/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/weather/08/27/gustav/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Tropical Storm Gustav left 22 dead in Haiti and the Dominican Republic before it pulled away from the countries Wednesday, officials said.</description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:36:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title> Gustav Kills 11; US Prepares for Storm</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1836594,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1836594,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Gustav swirled toward Cuba on Wednesday after triggering flooding and landslides that killed at least 11 people in the Caribbean</description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:50:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Gustav weakens to tropical storm</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/08/26/hurricane.gustav/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/08/26/hurricane.gustav/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Hurricane Gustav weakened to a tropical storm as it aimed for Caribbean waters Tuesday evening after crossing onto Haiti's southern peninsula as a Category 1 storm that killed at least one person.</description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:03:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Tropical Storm Gustav takes aim at Haiti, Dominican Republic</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/08/25/tropical.storm.gustav/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/08/25/tropical.storm.gustav/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Tropical Storm Gustav continued on its path toward Haiti and the central Caribbean on Monday and threatened to reach hurricane strength before landfall, the National Hurricane Center said.</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Tropical Storm Forms in Caribbean</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1835890,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1835890,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Haitians were told to prepare for evacuations as Tropical Storm Gustav formed quickly in the Caribbean</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Haitian strongman convicted of mortgage fraud in U.S.</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/07/28/haiti.conviction/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/07/28/haiti.conviction/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A man once convicted of heading up a ruthless Haitian death squad that is blamed for raping and killing political rivals has been convicted of carrying out a mortgage fraud scheme in the United States.</description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:52:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Food Aid Not Making It to Haiti</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1824859,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1824859,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>After soaring food prices led to deadly Haitian riots in April, the U.S. and the U.N. promised millions of dollars in aid to poor families. 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But what is there to take its place?</description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Food protests end in Haiti</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/04/10/haiti.food.protests/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/04/10/haiti.food.protests/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Food protests in Haiti ended Thursday as police cleared the streets of roadblocks and demonstrators abandoned their barricades.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:40:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Food Crisis Renews Haiti's Agony</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1729150,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1729150,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A "near-famine" sparked by spiraling world food prices drives desperate citizens of the hemisphere's poorest nation to riot
</description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:40:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Tropical Storm Noel edges closer to Haiti</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/weather/10/28/tropical.storm/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/weather/10/28/tropical.storm/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Haiti posted tropical storm warnings along its entire coastline and Cuba placed much of its eastern end under similar advisories Sunday as Tropical Storm Noel gained strength in the Caribbean Sea, forecasters reported.</description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:03:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>CNN Heroes: Child of privilege helps Haiti's orphans</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/09/11/jackson.heroes/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/09/11/jackson.heroes/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Aaron Jackson grew up in Destin, Florida, a self-proclaimed child of privilege with golf and sunshine filling most of his days.</description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:04:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Helping improve lives in developed countries</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/07/17/smith.explorers.cnna/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/07/17/smith.explorers.cnna/index.html</guid><description>Amy Smith, an instructor at MIT, is working on an alternative cooking fuel for underdeveloped countries that would decrease the need for wood, limiting deforestation.</description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2006 21:18:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Impoverished Haiti has sugar to burn</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/07/17/haiti.sugarenergy/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/07/17/haiti.sugarenergy/index.html</guid><description>Little is simple in Haiti, not even boiling water.</description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2006 21:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Preval declared winner of Haiti vote</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/02/16/haiti/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/02/16/haiti/index.html</guid><description>Crowds of supporters celebrated in the streets of Haiti's capital Thursday after the country's electoral council declared former President Rene Preval the winner of last week's presidential election.</description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2006 19:57:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Vote counting under way in Haiti</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/02/08/haiti.election/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/02/08/haiti.election/index.html</guid><description>Election workers in Haiti on Wednesday counted votes that will determine the new president and parliament of the impoverished Caribbean nation.</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2006 13:24:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Former president favored in Haiti vote</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/02/07/haiti.elections/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/02/07/haiti.elections/index.html</guid><description>Under the close watch of thousands of police and U.N. peacekeepers, Haitians flocked to -- and at times, overwhelmed -- polling places to cast ballots for the first time in six years for president and members of parliament.</description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2006 12:48:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Molly Ivins: Groundhog day</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/31/ivins.groundhogday/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/31/ivins.groundhogday/index.html</guid><description>In a happy harmonic convergence, Groundhog Day falls only two days after the State of the Union Address this year. Some days, I'd feel better with Punxsutawney Phil in the Oval Office -- at least he doesn't lie about the weather. The Bush administration is now trying to stop NASA's top climate scientist from speaking out on the need for prompt action on global warming. As far as we know, the groundhog isn't suppressing anyone, he just calls it as he sees it.</description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:54:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Haiti elections postponed again</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/11/25/haiti.poll/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/11/25/haiti.poll/index.html</guid><description>Haiti's electoral board on Friday again postponed the country's first elections since President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was ousted in a rebellion almost two years ago.</description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2005 17:47:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>350 inmates escape Haitian prison</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/02/19/haiti.prison.break/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/02/19/haiti.prison.break/index.html</guid><description>More than 350 detainees escaped from Haiti's largest prison Saturday afternoon, after armed masked men in two vans broke through barricades and attacked the facility, according to police and eyewitness reports.</description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2005 01:59:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>showbuzz</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/12/08/showbuzz/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/12/08/showbuzz/index.html</guid><description>Julia Roberts is a mommy with big money.</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2004 18:11:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Shots fired as Powell visits Haiti palace</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/12/01/powell.shooting/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/12/01/powell.shooting/index.html</guid><description>Gunshots were exchanged Wednesday outside Haiti's presidential palace in Port-au-Prince as U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell held meetings there, U.S. State Department officials said.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2004 17:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Amnesty condemns Haiti's human rights failures</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/11/11/haiti.human.rights.reut/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/11/11/haiti.human.rights.reut/index.html</guid><description>Rights group Amnesty International on Thursday condemned what it said were summary executions by police, serious human rights abuses and an alarming number of illegal detentions in Haiti.</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:09:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Desperation in Gonaives</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/09/29/haiti.desperation/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/09/29/haiti.desperation/index.html</guid><description>The city was knee-deep in mud, bodies still lay decomposing on waste ground. Homes were wrecked and lives shattered. But in the week we were in Gonaives, I didn't see anybody cry.</description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2004 17:45:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Horror scenes from storm-hit Haiti</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WEATHER/09/21/jeanne.ap/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WEATHER/09/21/jeanne.ap/index.html</guid><description>Blood swirled in knee-deep floodwaters as workers stacked bodies outside the hospital morgue.</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2004 15:04:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Storm kills at least 500 in Haiti</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WEATHER/09/21/jeanne/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WEATHER/09/21/jeanne/index.html</guid><description>At least 500 people have died after tropical storm Jeanne flooded Haiti last week, a U.N. spokesman has said, with the toll expected to rise as waters recede.</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2004 04:20:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Jeanne batters Haiti; 54 dead</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WEATHER/09/19/haiti.jeanne/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WEATHER/09/19/haiti.jeanne/index.html</guid><description>Tropical Storm Jeanne has pummeled the north coast of Haiti, killing 54 people and leaving another 150 unaccounted for, a U.N. spokesman said Sunday.</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2004 03:42:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Aristide promises return to Haiti</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/05/30/saftrica.aristide/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/05/30/saftrica.aristide/index.html</guid><description>South Africa's main opposition party has called the decision to grant Haiti's ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide temporary asylum a "mistake" and questioned the cost to South African taxpayers.</description><pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2004 14:57:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>At least 900 dead in Caribbean flooding</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/05/28/caribbean.storm/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/05/28/caribbean.storm/index.html</guid><description>Forecasters are expecting more rain Friday in the flood-soaked regions of the Dominican Republic and Haiti, where high waters have killed hundreds of people and left thousands more homeless.</description><pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2004 13:05:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Caribbean flood toll mounts</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WEATHER/05/27/caribbean.storms/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WEATHER/05/27/caribbean.storms/index.html</guid><description>The United States and Canadian forces are struggling to assess the scope of a disaster following days of rain in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.</description><pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2004 05:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Caribbean floods death toll soars</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WEATHER/05/25/caribbean.storms/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WEATHER/05/25/caribbean.storms/index.html</guid><description>At least 363 people have been killed in floods in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, officials in the two neighboring Caribbean countries say.</description><pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2004 07:56:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Former Haiti police chief arrested</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/05/16/haiti.drugs/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/05/16/haiti.drugs/index.html</guid><description>U.S. federal agents have arrested Haiti's former national police chief in Miami, as part of the Drug Enforcement Administration's ongoing investigation into drug trafficking in the Caribbean nation, according to a DEA spokesman and court documents.</description><pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2004 06:48:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Partial justice in Haiti</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/04/14/mariner.haiti/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/04/14/mariner.haiti/index.html</guid><description>Haiti's new government has underscored its commitment to justice. "The fight against impunity will be a top priority for us," said interim Justice Minister Bernard Gousse when I met him a few weeks ago. "We're planning to investigate human rights abuses, killings, and the pilfering of the state treasury."</description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2004 16:52:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Prime minister: Haitians will vote next year</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/04/05/haiti.elections/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/04/05/haiti.elections/index.html</guid><description>After a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, the leader of Haiti's interim government said Monday that general elections will be held next year to set up a new democracy.</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2004 23:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Haiti after Aristide</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/03/25/haiti/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/03/25/haiti/index.html</guid><description>U.S. Ambassador James Foley on Monday passed the word to Provisional Prime Minister Gerard LaTortue that his superiors in the Bush administration were not happy about language used by the head of Haiti's new government. LaTortue refers to his country's rebels as "freedom fighters."</description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:12:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The lobbying war for Haiti</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/03/15/haiti.tm/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/03/15/haiti.tm/index.html</guid><description>Haiti is the Western Hemisphere's poorest country. But with the departure of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, it is becoming clear how much money both he and his chief foe, the Bush Administration, spent not on alleviating that poverty but on politicking against each other.</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2004 16:50:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>New Haiti PM: Top priority to restore order</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/03/10/haiti/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/03/10/haiti/index.html</guid><description>Haiti's newly designated prime minister said Wednesday that the nation's army was disbanded unconstitutionally by now-exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and he will appoint a commission to examine its re-establishment.</description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2004 21:35:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Haiti: The past is a prologue</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/03/03/findlaw.analysis.mariner.haiti/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/03/03/findlaw.analysis.mariner.haiti/index.html</guid><description>Jean-Bertrand Aristide, president of Haiti until Sunday, has ceded power. Pressed to resign by the U.S. and French governments, and facing a threatened rebel assault on Port-au-Prince, Aristide was flown out of the country early Sunday morning.</description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2004 21:10:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>State of emergency declared in Haiti</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/03/03/haiti.rebels/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/03/03/haiti.rebels/index.html</guid><description>Political turmoil continued in Haiti late Wednesday as Prime Minister Yvon Neptune declared a state of emergency and announced the formation of a commission to oversee security in the turbulent nation.</description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2004 07:32:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Dems slam White House on Haiti policy</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/29/haiti.reax/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/29/haiti.reax/index.html</guid><description>Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel of New York said Sunday the United States is just as responsible for President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's ouster as the rebels who forced him from office.</description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Feb 2004 16:41:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>U.N. to send peacekeepers to Haiti</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/02/29/haiti.revolt/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/02/29/haiti.revolt/index.html</guid><description>The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Sunday night to send a multinational peacekeeping force to Haiti for up to three months.</description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Feb 2004 12:18:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Aristide: Haitian killers like those of 9/11</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/02/26/cnna.aristide/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/02/26/cnna.aristide/index.html</guid><description>While the Caribbean Community warned of that a humanitarian crisis and "sheer anarchy and chaos" are imminent in Haiti,  embattled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide vowed to remain in office amid a growing revolt and calls for him to step down.</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2004 22:41:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Boat people fleeing Haitian crisis</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/02/26/haiti.revolt.intl/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/02/26/haiti.revolt.intl/index.html</guid><description>The United Nations Security Council is to hold an urgent meeting to discuss the turmoil in Haiti as the U.S. Coast Guard begins intercepting refugee boats.</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2004 08:47:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Caribbean states call for U.N. force in Haiti</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/02/26/haiti.revolt/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/02/26/haiti.revolt/index.html</guid><description>Caribbean countries called on the United Nations Thursday to dispatch a multinational force to restore order in Haiti, with Jamaica's foreign minister warning that a humanitarian crisis and "sheer anarchy and chaos" are imminent.</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2004 07:18:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>France calls for Haiti peace force</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/02/25/haiti.revolt.intl/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/02/25/haiti.revolt.intl/index.html</guid><description>French officials have called for the "immediate" creation of an international civilian peace force to restore order to Haiti.</description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2004 19:57:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Haiti leaders delay peace response</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/02/24/haiti.revolt/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/02/24/haiti.revolt/index.html</guid><description>Opposition leaders in Haiti have delayed a decision on whether to back a U.S.-supported peace plan for Haiti, and are to meet Wednesday to draw up a counterproposal.</description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2004 23:17:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. Marines arrive in Haiti</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/02/23/haiti.revolt/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/02/23/haiti.revolt/index.html</guid><description>A team of 50 Marines arrived in the Haitian capital Monday to help protect the U.S. Embassy and its staff against possible rebel attack.</description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:57:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Rebels attack Haiti's second-largest city</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/02/22/haiti.revolt/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/02/22/haiti.revolt/index.html</guid><description>Haiti's government sent reinforcements to Cap Haitien after rebels seeking to oust President Jean-Bertrand Aristide moved into the country's second-largest city Sunday, storming police headquarters and freeing prisoners.</description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2004 05:31:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Aristide agrees to international peace plan</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/02/21/haiti.revolt/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/02/21/haiti.revolt/index.html</guid><description>President Jean-Bertrand Aristide said Saturday that he has accepted all conditions of a peace plan presented to him by an international delegation, but opposition leaders appeared unwavering in their refusal to go along with any such deal.</description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2004 08:44:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Diplomats head to Haiti, aiming to end uprising</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/02/20/haiti.revolt/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/02/20/haiti.revolt/index.html</guid><description>A multinational team including delegates from the United States, France and other governments is expected Saturday in Haiti in an effort to end a bloody rebellion against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2004 06:45:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Multinational team will go to Haiti</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/02/19/haiti.revolt/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/02/19/haiti.revolt/index.html</guid><description>A multinational team will travel to Haiti Saturday to discuss a plan to calm the turbulence there, a senior State Department official announced Thursday as Americans were urged to leave Haiti as soon as possible.</description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2004 18:42:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>50 dead as Haiti crisis grows</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/02/17/haiti.revolt1410/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/02/17/haiti.revolt1410/index.html</guid><description>An uprising in Haiti has intensified with rebels killing the police chief and two of his bodyguards in the town of Hinche before driving the rest of the police force from the town, local radio reports said.</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2004 19:08:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Concern mounts over Haiti bloodshed</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/02/17/haiti.revolt/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/02/17/haiti.revolt/index.html</guid><description>International concern is growing about a rebel bid in Haiti to oust President Jean-Bertrand Aristide that has left more than 50 people dead.</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2004 07:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Americans warned against travel to Haiti</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/TRAVEL/02/10/haiti.travel.warning/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/TRAVEL/02/10/haiti.travel.warning/index.html</guid><description>With Haiti wracked by civil unrest, the United States urged Americans Tuesday to leave the country "if they can do so safely."</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2004 01:27:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Aristide announces framework for Haiti talks</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/02/01/haiti.aristide/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/02/01/haiti.aristide/index.html</guid><description>Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide returned to Port-au-Prince Saturday night after a daylong meeting with international leaders in an effort to resolve Haiti's latest political crisis.</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2004 14:26:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>How Haiti Became Unwired</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/01/24/272306/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/01/24/272306/index.htm</guid><description>Just a few months ago, business leaders in Haiti were joking that when the Y2K crisis hit, no one would notice. The power blackouts, water shortages, and dead phone lines that Americans feared have...</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2000 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>COMMON CAUSE</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/10/24/71174/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/10/24/71174/index.htm</guid><description>They may be at opposite ends of the world, but angry protestors in Burma and Haiti are demanding the same democratic reforms and confronting remarkably similar obstacles. For decades dictators rule...</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 1988 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>