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Port-au-Prince, Mar 30 (Prensa Latina) Former Haitian deputy Jerry Tardieu advocated today for a broad political dialogue before proposing changes to the Constitution, and ruled out an electoral process this year due to the marked insecurity.
The Biden administration is defending the slow pace of financial sanctions against Haitian politicians and business leaders, saying that the United States’ evidentiary standard is much stricter than that of
2010 Haiti earthquake, large-scale earthquake that occurred January 12, 2010, on the West Indian island of Hispaniola, comprising the countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Most severely affected was Haiti, occupying the western third of the island. An exact death toll proved elusive in the ensuing chaos. The Haitian government’s official count was more than 300,000, which would make the earthquake’s aftermath one of the worst natural disasters in recorded history, but other estimates were considerably smaller. Hundreds of thousands of survivors were displaced. The earthquake hit at 4:53 pm some 15 miles (25 km) southwest of the Haitian