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US focuses on UN presence in Haiti as it seeks to help troubled country

LOS ANGELES — As Haiti grapples with an unprecedented wave of kidnappings and killings by armed gangs, a top State Department diplomat for Latin America and the Caribbean said Friday the U.S. is actively engaged in discussions about Haiti’s mounting security challenges and what the presence of a United Nations…

Miami Herald

The Biden administration to step up family reunification for Cubans and Haitians

MIAMI — Hoping to cut down on the unprecedented number of Haitians and Cubans trying to reach the United States by boat and at its southern land border, the Biden administration announced Friday that it will be making it easier for individuals from those countries to reunite with families in…

Miami Herald

5 Haiti soccer players and their coach vanished from Special Olympics in Florida

MIAMI — They turned in their room keys and left behind their suitcases and other personal belongings. Why five Haitian soccer players and their coach decided to vanish while participating in the 2022 Special Olympics Games in Orlando remains a puzzling mystery.

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How Haitian migrants are treated shows the ties between racism and refugee policy

The first protected category of the United Nations refugee convention is race. The 1951 convention defines a refugee as a person who is outside their country of residence or nationality “owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or…

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Six members of Special Olympics team mysteriously vanish after leaving bags at hotel

All the missing Haiti delegates handed their room keys in at reception before disappearing, abandoning their personal belongings and bags. One of the six is believed to have an intellectual disability

Daily Mirror

Six members of Special Olympics team go missing in Florida, police say

Authorities say all six members left behind their belongings before going missing

The Independent UK

‘Invisible shipwrecks:’ How a boat with US-bound Haitian migrants disappeared at sea

MIAMI — They were told to dress totally in black and to leave cellphones and all identifying documents, including passports, behind.

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Summit of the Americas kicks off without Cuba, Maduro or Mexico’s López Obrador

After much drama over what nations would be in attendance, most leaders in the Western Hemisphere are gathering this week in Los Angeles during the ninth Summit of the Americas, a high-profile meeting that is expected to deliver an accord on managing unprecedented levels of migrants throughout the region.

Los Angeles Times

‘Crazy journey’: how Wales went from worse than Haiti to World Cup heroes

Bale, Ramsey and Hennessey were in the side that sunk to 117th in the world at the stadium where joy abounded on Sunday

The Guardian - UK

Summit of the Americas kicks off without Cuba, Maduro or Mexico’s López Obrador

After much drama over what nations will be in attendance, most leaders in the Western Hemisphere will gather this week in Los Angeles during the ninth Summit of the Americas, a high-profile meeting that is expected to deliver an accord on managing unprecedented levels of migrants throughout the region.

Los Angeles Times

There were 200 kidnappings in Haiti in May, UN agency says

Exactly one year after warring gangs shut down transportation links to the southern regions of Haiti, armed groups continue to restrict access to vulnerable communities in Port-au-Prince, forcing thousands of others from their homes on the eastern outskirts of the capital and creating travel problems in the north of the…

Miami Herald

‘The Haitian story is the Black story.’ Haiti through the eyes of Haitian-Americans

Kerlie Leonce wasn’t always proud to be Haitian.

Miami Herald

Title 42’s Long Tail of Pain

More than 1.8 million asylum-seekers have been expelled under the pandemic-era statute.

Texas Observer

US Coast Guard returns 223 migrants back to Haiti, Cuba. Some stopped off Florida Keys

MIAMI — The U.S. Coast Guard returned 223 U.S.-bound migrants back to Haiti and Cuba on Tuesday after detaining eight migrant boats at sea during the Memorial Day weekend.

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Haiti has suffered hugely over centuries but its revolution was stunningly innovative

Since the New York Times published its recent series of bombshell articles about the crippling reparations that France imposed on Haiti after it won independence in 1804, much has been written about how this 150 million franc “indemnity” had virtually doomed the fledgling country before it had a chance to…

The Independent UK

'No future for babies:' 842 US-bound Haitians end up in Cuba

Some of the more than 840 Haitians who tried to reach the United States in a boat but ended up in Cuba say Thursday that they fled violence in their country and were charged thousands of dollars by smugglers who ushered them onto a dilapidated boat and later abandoned them…

Los Angeles Times

Review: 'We Feed People' chronicles chef José Andrés' efforts to help people in crisis

Ron Howard's absorbing new documentary about chef José Andrés and his nonprofit relief organization, World Central Kitchen, opens with Andrés' team navigating flooded roads to deliver food after 2018's Hurricane Florence. Soon enough we'll see him visiting Haiti after the devastating 2010 earthquake, then Puerto Rico and the Bahamas in…

The Independent UK

Boat with reported 842 Haitian migrants winds up in Cuba

Cuban state news media say that a single vessel carrying 842 Haitians who apparently were trying to reach the United States has landed instead in central Cuba

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Boat carrying 800 Haitians en route to United States washes ashore in Cuba instead

A boat carrying 842 Haitian migrants bound for the United States strayed off course and washed ashore along the north coast of Cuba instead, according to Cuban state media reports on Wednesday, leaving island authorities scrambling to provide the group with humanitarian aid.

Miami Herald

'Like living in a concentration camp': Haitian prisons run out of food and water

Prison inmates in Haiti were already facing horrendous conditions: overcrowding, prolonged pretrial detention, poor sanitation and shuttered courtrooms due to an ongoing strike by court clerks that began on April 12 over poor pay and working conditions.

Al Jazeera

Refugees decry Title 42 as ‘absurd excuse’ as it stays in place

The COVID-linked provision has allowed the US to carry out nearly 2 million expulsions since March 2020.

France 24

'Albanese Does It': Australia swears in Labor PM

IN THE PAPERS – Monday, 23.05.2022: We take a look at how the Australian papers are dissecting Anthony Albanese's election victory. We also discuss pushback over a New York Times article about the colossal ransom that France once made Haiti pay. We then see how the papers are reacting to…

The Independent UK

Gangs strangle Haiti's capital as deaths, kidnappings soar

Gangs are fighting each other and seizing territory in Haiti's capital with a new intensity and brutality

Miami Herald

Miami bars Haiti’s ex-president ‘Sweet Micky’ from performing at music festival

MIAMI — Miami police will not allow former Haitian President Michel Martelly, known as “Sweet Micky” on stage, to perform at a music festival in Little Haiti on Saturday, citing safety concerns amid pressure from community members who say the controversial politician and singer shouldn’t be welcome in the city.

Miami Herald

As more doctors are kidnapped in Haiti, more hospitals protest by refusing new patients

The kidnapping-for-ransom of two more doctors in Haiti, where a pediatrician on Friday marked her 16th day in captivity, is prompting hospitals and physicians in the capital to close their doors and turn away new patients in protest.

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