2/10/12
A Quake-Scarred Nation Tries a Rural Road to Recovery
When the earthquake leveled Port-au-Prince on Jan. 12, 2010, planners and visionaries here and abroad looked past the rubble and saw an opportunity to fix the structural problems that have kept Haiti stuck in poverty and instability. An idea that won early support was to shrink the overcrowded, underemployed, violence-ridden capital and revive the desiccated, disused farmland that had long been unable to feed the country.
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The New York Times, Randal Archibald

12/5/11
Dominican Activist Sonia Pierre Dead at 48
Pierre, a human rights activist, who bravely fought discrimination against poor Dominicans of Haitian descent since she was a child, died outside of the municipality of Villa Altagracia while being rushed to a hospital, said Genaro Rincón, a lawyer who works with Pierre's Dominican-Haitian Women's Movement.
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Fox News Latino, Associated Press

11/30/11
Charity Fatigue has Haitian Officials Calling for More Investments
PORT-AU-PRINCE -- As Haitian and foreign officials laid the first stone of a new 605-acre industrial park on a bulldozed bean field this week, they each heralded it as not just a foundation for job creation but a new model for economic development.
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The Miami Herald, Jacqueline Charles