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6:00 am
Wed June 19, 2013

How 1993 Hunger Strikes Prepare Florida For A Possible Haitian Exodus Today

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Many Haitian refugees took to rickety boats to escape their military regime's violence.
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  The rise in the number of Haitians being detained at sea, at airports and at border crossings this year has the international community scratching as well as turning its head. More than 70 picked up by the U.S. Coast Guard in the waters off Puerto Rico; 33 by authorities off Jamaica; almost 3,500 in or off the Dominican Republic; 65 as far away as Peru.

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The Florida Roundup
12:00 pm
Fri June 14, 2013

A New Era For U.S.-Latin American Relations?

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In a special edition of The Florida Roundup, we focus on our broader region, Latin America and the Caribbean. 

China's President Xi Jinping recently concluded a visit to Mexico, Costa Rica and Trinidad, shortly after President Obama and Vice President Biden paid visits there.

We discuss if Obama's second term will include stronger Latin American relations and China's ambitions in the Western hemisphere. 

Plus: why Venezuelans are buying suitcases of toilet paper and other basic goods in South Florida.

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Photography
3:09 pm
Wed June 5, 2013

See The Beauty In Haiti With Photographer Maggie Steber's New Show In Coral Gables

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Picture images of developing countries in American media and you’ll likely think of a few recurring tropes — photos depicting squalid living conditions and political strife.

“We always end up looking at poor countries as being fraught with tragedy and poverty,” says documentary photographer Maggie Steber, in a video trailer for her new solo show opening in Coral Gables on Thursday. “We don’t recognize what is beautiful. We don’t equate what is beautiful.”

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Arts
7:32 am
Sun June 2, 2013

Exploring the History of Vodou in Haiti from the 1804 Revolution to the 2010 Earthquake

Ramsey's book delves into the roll Vodou has played in Haiti.
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Miami Dish
4:30 pm
Tue April 16, 2013

Coping With Tough Times: Start With Dinner

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"I think feeding the deeper hunger and serving the world starts with what you serve for dinner," says writer Ellen Kanner. She admits "that's asking a lot of dinner."  Feeding the deeper hunger is the unifying theme of her new memoir and cookbook, Feeding the Hungry Ghost: Life, Faith and What to Eat for Dinner.

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Arts
7:02 am
Mon April 8, 2013

Palm Beach International Film Festival: Four Documentaries To See (VIDEO)

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'Haiti Untold' will have its US premiere at Palm Beach International Film Festival.
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The Palm Beach International Film Festival boasts a few star-studded indie films, but the schedule also is packed with a host of alternately gritty and inspirational documentaries featuring everyday folks in extraordinary circumstances. 

The festival, which kicked off on April 4, continues through Thursday. Every day, there are a dozen or so films screening at various theaters throughout Palm Beach County. You can't be everywhere at once, so below are four documentaries to consider making a priority at this year's festival. 

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Under the Sun
6:31 pm
Mon March 18, 2013

Edwidge Danticat’s Letter To Miami

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Author Edwidge Danticat during an interview with Mitchell Kaplan, owner of Books & Books.
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By Tina Antolini

This piece originally aired July 2011.

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Under the Sun
4:00 pm
Mon March 18, 2013

Author Edwidge Danticat On Life As A Haitian Immigrant And Writing Her First Memoir

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Books & Books owner Mitchell Kaplan and author Edwidge Danticat
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By Mitchell Kaplan

Books & Books bookstore owner Mitchell Kaplan speaks with award-winning author Edwidge Danticat about her experience as an Haitian immigrant living in Brooklyn, what it’s like to live in Miami now, and about writing the memoir

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Haiti Recovery
8:55 am
Thu February 28, 2013

What Happened To The Aid Meant To Rebuild Haiti?

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Many homes that were rebuilt after the earthquake in 2010 are even more dangerous than the original ones. This three-story home was put up after the quake but is already slated for demolition to make way for an 18-unit housing project.
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Although progress has been slow, there are signs of construction in Haiti. A neighborhood near downtown Port-au-Prince that was in shambles after the quake has been rebuilt.
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Originally published on Mon March 4, 2013 4:39 pm

After a devastating earthquake hit Haiti in 2010, governments and foundations from around the world pledged more than $9 billion to help get the country back on its feet.

Only a fraction of the money ever made it. And Haiti's President Michel Martelly says the funds aren't "showing results."

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Latin America
6:31 am
Thu February 14, 2013

Will 'Made In Haiti' Factories Improve Life In Haiti?

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Workers prepare the foundation for a new warehouse and manufacturing facility at the Caracol Industrial Park in northern Haiti. The park, which opened last year, is still under construction.
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Workers arrange paint buckets before they are filled at a warehouse in the Caracol Industrial Park, which Haiti is billing as the largest in the Caribbean.
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The anchor tenant of the Caracol Industrial Park is the Korean clothing giant SAE-A. Employees make T-shirts that will be shipped to a discount retailer in the United States.
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Workers at the SAE-A plant earn $5 a day. Critics say this is not enough to lift families out of poverty.
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Backers of the industrial park project say it could create 60,000 jobs inside the park. Here, workers at the SAE-A textile plant.
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SAE-A employees iron T-shirts that will be shipped and sold in the United States for $7 apiece.
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Diesel turbine generators, which were installed by the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, power the industrial park as well as the surrounding communities.
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An armed guard keeps watch over a new, USAID-funded housing complex. The homes will be offered to people who work at Caracol.
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Workers at the SAE-A textile plant inside the Caracol Industrial Park in northern Haiti. Backers of the project say it could create 60,000 jobs inside the park.
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Workers at the SAE-A textile plant inside the Caracol Industrial Park in northern Haiti earn $5 a day. Backers of the project say it could create 60,000 jobs inside the park.
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Georges Sassine heads the Haitian government agency that oversees the Carcacol Industrial Park. He says the low cost and availability of labor in Haiti, the proximity to U.S. markets, and favorable bilateral trade measures make Caracol highly attractive to foreign manufacturers.
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Originally published on Fri February 15, 2013 3:05 am

Three years after the devastating Port-au-Prince earthquake, one of the largest international relief projects in Haiti isn't anywhere near where the quake hit. It's an industrial park on the north coast halfway between Cap-Haitien and the border with the Dominican Republic.

Aid agencies are pouring millions of dollars into the project to encourage people to move out of the overcrowded capital and create jobs. Critics, however, say the jobs don't pay enough to lift people out of poverty.

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Haiti Cholera
2:49 pm
Tue January 15, 2013

After Bringing Cholera To Haiti, U.N. Plans To Get Rid Of It

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Haitians protest against the United Nations peacekeepers in Port-au-Prince in November 2010.
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Men bathe in a branch of the Artibonite River outside Saint-Marc. Haiti's cholera outbreak in 2010 began about 60 miles upstream from here.
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Originally published on Sat January 12, 2013 11:11 pm

Not quite 10 months after Haiti's devastating 2010 earthquake, a more insidious disaster struck: cholera.

Haiti hadn't seen cholera for at least a century. Then suddenly, the first cases appeared in the central highlands near a camp for United Nations peacekeeping forces.

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Haiti Aid
11:38 am
Tue January 15, 2013

Despite Billions In Aid, Many Haitians Still Live In Squalid Camps

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Jacqueline Syra has been living in the La Piste camp for three years. She says she has no idea when she will be able to leave.
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Construction workers overlook the hills above Port-au-Prince near Petionville, where an 18-unit complex is slated to go up this year. Despite billions of dollars in international donations for earthquake relief, only about 5,000 permanent houses have been built.
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The 16/6 project, funded by the Haitian government, was initially intended to allow the closure of six relocation camps and return nearly 5,000 families to 16 neighborhoods. But construction has been extremely slow in the three years following the devastating earthquake.
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Rose Lermonis spent months living in what she described as an "awful" camp in PeŽtionville. A rental subsidy program helped her move out, but she ended up homeless again when the money ran out. She now lives in a room owned by her sister.
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The La Piste camp in Port-au-Prince held 50,000 residents at one point. Some people have left, but the camp is still overcrowded. Residents say they have few options for work.
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Workers finish the cement walls on a multilevel building in the hills above Port-au-Prince near Petionville. They plan to finish the 18-unit housing facility in 2013.
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A man measures a completed section of a retaining wall at a construction site in the hills above Port-au-Prince near Petionville.
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Bibeta Louissaint (left) stands in her makeshift shack with her 2-year-old son, Sebastian, in the Fort National neighborhood of Port-au-Prince. This area was home to many people living in the camps around the national palace. Louissaint received a rental subsidy last year to move.
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Bibeta Louissaint (left) and Beatrice Rochelain are neighbors in the Fort National neighborhood in Port-au-Prince. Many people who received cash and subsidies to move out of the camps have returned to the area.
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A man works on his steel gate outside of his ramshackle house near Camp Corail, just north of Port-au-Prince.
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A boy stands on a pile of rocks used for the construction of new homes in the hills overlooking Camp Corail, just north of Port-au-Prince. Squatters are streaming into the area and setting up communities, with little government oversight.
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The La Piste camp in Port-au-Prince held 50,000 residents at one point. Some residents have left, but the camp is still overcrowded. Residents say they have few options for work or even hope to leave.
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This flimsy three-story house, which was rebuilt after the earthquake in January 2010, will have to be demolished to make way for an 18-unit housing project. Many homes that were rebuilt after the quake are even more dangerous than the original ones.
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Clement Belizaire directs relocation and rehabilitation in Haiti's reconstruction program.
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Rose Lermonis spent months living in what she calls an "awful" camp in Petionville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince. A rental subsidy program helped her to move out temporarily.
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Originally published on Mon January 14, 2013 9:06 am

Saturday marks the third anniversary of the powerful earthquake that destroyed much of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince. The quake killed roughly 200,000 people and left 1.5 million Haitians homeless.

Despite billions of dollars in international aid and pledges to help Haiti rebuild from the disaster, very little new, permanent housing has been built. And about 350,000 Haitians are still living in squalid, makeshift camps — where they face an array of health challenges.

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Haiti Three Years Later: Part III
6:00 am
Wed January 9, 2013

Slideshow: Fabienne Jean, Three Years After The Haiti Earthquake

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Fabienne Jean sits contemplative at home.
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Fabienne's stump and scars from a skin graff.
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A photo of Fabienne at a dentist's office in Boston, MA before having her teeth worked on.
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Fabienne looks toward her daughter Christina as she looks at a book.
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Fabienne's mother who was in February still recovering from a a stroke she suffered sits up in her bed. She has since died.
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Fabienne in the doorway of the part of her home where she cooks.
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Fabienne sweeps the floor of the bedroom of her home.
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Fabienne walks alongside an exterior wall of her home after purchasing some ingredients from her neighbor.
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Fabienne prepares a meal for her daughter and mother at home.
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Fabienne's daughter Christina looks intently at her mother as she dresses her.
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Fabienne's daughter Christina performs a back bend at home.
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Fabienne Jean sits at home with her prosthetic leg propped up on a coffee table.
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By Jacob Kushner

All week long we've been bringing you the story of Fabienne Jean, a dancer who lost her leg in the earthquake in Haiti three years ago this month. 

A prosthetic technician from Boston heard her story and fitted Fabienne with a fake leg. He tried to help Fabienne recover in other ways too. He hatched plans to help her start her business, buy a house and open a dance studio to raise money for Haitian amputees. 

But as reporter Jacob Kushner discovered, Fabienne's recovery has been a slow, frustrating process. 

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