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With expired work permits, couple who fled Haiti leans on Texas church that brought them here
As gang violence ravages Haiti, a Texas couple fights to keep their legal protections and their American dreams alive.
2-Year-Old Was Orphaned in Catastrophic Earthquake, but He Never Forgot Those Who Saved Him from the Rubble
Jamesly Jesse spearheaded a project that shipped 100,000 meals to the Haitian hospital that took care of him after the 2010 ...
WLRN1dOpinion
Like Trump, Haiti's gangs are determined to burn down Haitians' dignity
COMMENTARY The gang burning of one of Haiti's most iconic landmarks is more brazen destruction not just of the country — but ...
Gangs burn down Haiti’s iconic Hotel Oloffson, host to stars and writers
Jackie Onassis and Mick Jagger once slept there, and writer Graham Greene immortalized it. Now Haitian gangs have destroyed it.
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Historic hotel, symbol of Haiti’s past, burns amid gang violence
The World's Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Harold Isaac, a reporter based in Port-au-Prince, about the iconic Hotel Oloffson ...
A Hotel Made Famous by Graham Greene Is a Victim of Haiti’s Violence
Haiti’s famed Oloffson Hotel, a cultural landmark and celebrity haven, was incinerated amid rising violence by gangs that ...
Gangs in Haiti burn beloved Gothic gingerbread hotel that rose to international fame
In the late 1980s, Richard Morse became the hotel’s manager. His band, RAM, played Haitian roots music on Thursday nights ...
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The Gingerbread Heart of Haiti Lost to Flames as Culture and History Face a New Crisis
No more dancing, no more dining, no more nights at the Oloffson. Gone are the meetups, the dates, the rum sours, the RAM ...
Haiti gangs’ expansion, human-rights violations, threaten whole Caribbean, UN warns
If the government doesn’t put its head together to push back the gangs, they will head toward Belladère and then we will be at war because the Dominicans will never accept this.” ...