Haiti

Miami Herald's Jacqueline Charles, WLRN's Tim Padgett, Sommer Brugal from the Miami Herald, and Nadia Sussman from ProPublica joined guest host Wilkine Brutus on The South Florida Roundup. They looked at the big issues facing Haiti, Florida's school districts, and alternative sugarcane harvesting in Brazil.

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The Haitian New Year's Day tradition of soup joumou or pumpkin soup is said to date back to January 1, 1804, the day Haitian slave and revolutionary leader Jean-Jacques Dessalines declared Haiti’s independence from its French colonizers.

The group of 12 navigated by stars to reach safety after a two-month kidnapping ordeal, officials with Christian Aid Ministries, the Ohio-based agency that the missionaries work for, said on Monday.

A Haiti gang has released all 12 hostages two months to the day that they were kidnapped in Haiti’s capital, Haiti National Police Spokesman Garry Desrosiers confirmed to the Miami Herald.

Because "gas is like gold" in economically collapsed Haiti today, scores of victims ran toward an upended gasoline truck to get its spilled fuel. Then it exploded.

The truck overturned and exploded in a fireball in the coastal city of Cap-Haitien, engulfing cars and homes in flames as it killed more than 50 people and injured dozens of others.

At least 50 people are dead in Haiti’s second largest city after an explosion involving a fuel tanker, a deputy mayor of Cap-Haitien confirmed to the Miami Herald.

Three more Christian missionaries who have been held hostage in Haiti for more than seven weeks have been released, Christian Aid Ministries said Monday.

Assistant Secretary of State Todd Robinson has the daunting task of helping Haitians restore their collapsed security — so they can restore their collapsed country.