Building an artisanal factory to produce breadfruit flour. That's the initiative of The Slow Food community “Agrotrasformation of the “Bread Tree of The initiative aims to build an artisanal factory in Haiti to fight the food crisis plaguing the island.
Getting around the archipelago can be a challenge, but it's one worth taking on (with the help of a guide) to discover its abundance of natural beauty and its historical and culinary attractions.
Attorneys painted widely different pictures of the former mayor of a Haitian town who is on trial in the U.S., accused of terrorizing his political opponents. The suit against Jean Morose Viliena began Monday in a federal court in Boston. The case highlights the violence and lack of accountability in Haiti’s politics. In openings, the defense said that Viliena was a successful mayor who improved the town. But an attorney for the three plaintiffs who say they or their relatives were violently persecuted by Viliena said he violently suppressed and intimidated his political foes. Viliena now lives in Malden.
BOSTON (AP) Accusations of political violence and terror have followed a former Haitian mayor all the way to a Boston courtroom, where a civil trial began Monday that shines a light on the wider issue of bloodshed and unaccountability in the Caribbean nation's politics.