As an excavator digs into the mound of twisted steel, cement, shoes and spreadsheets that used to be the downtown branch of Sogebel Bank, swarms of young men plunge into the debris.
For the moment, Louis Banatty lies in a stranger's backyard, the Haitian earth shifting around him.<p/> But as soon as she can, Chantal Banatty wants to bring him to Florida, where the once-controversial broadcaster, businessman and U.S. Marine veteran founded Miami's Radio Creole in 1980.
Earthquake
Remembering a dark day: Jan. 12, 2010
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The Justice Department has charged a Michigan man, who operates a youth residential center in Haiti, with abusing many of the youths.
A new report estimating that far fewer people died or were left homeless in last year’s Haiti earthquake will have no bearing on United States commitment to the disaster-prone nation, U.S. officials said Tuesday.
The presidential palace, parliament and Cathedral are all broken. But the celebration must go on as Haiti improvises for Saturday’s presidential inauguration.
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<b>The Miami Herald’s Caribbean correspondent</b> was named Journalist of the Year.
In the two years following the ouster of former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the U.S. played a key role in the interim government.
A Haitian man tried and acquitted on terrorism charge is denied admittance into the United States to attend the funeral of his teenage son struck and killed by a vehicle on I-95.