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Caribbean officials say a plan to create a transitional presidential council is moving forward after a majority of Haitian parties and coalitions submitted the names of those charged with finding new leaders for the country.
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NPR reports from inside Haiti, as gangs unleash another day of violence in the country's capital. It comes as political groups try to form a transitional council.
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The governor said he is sending a mix of law enforcement, fish and wildlife and National Guard personnel to the waters around Florida's southern peninsula.
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COMMENTARY Assembling a new governing council in Haiti will be grueling — but it's a chance to promote better leadership than the toxic ruling class Ariel Henry represents.
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A proposal to install new leadership in Haiti appears to be crumbling as some political parties rejected the plan to create a presidential council that would manage the transition.
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Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry has announced he will resign once a transitional presidential council is created, bowing to international pressure that seeks to save the country overwhelmed by violent gangs that some experts say have unleashed a low-scale civil war.
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Democratic U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick wants Congress to approve $40 million in aid to the United Nations for its mission to free Haiti from its violent gangs. She also wants Haiti's prime minister to step down.
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Haiti is in the throes of an uprising not seen in decades. As politicians around the region scramble to hash out a diplomatic solution to a political crisis, the food supply is threatened, and access to water and health care has been severely curtailed.
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When Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry filled the void left by the assassination of the country’s president in 2021, he did so over the protest of wide segments of the population but with the full-throated support of the Biden administration. Now, almost three years later, Henry’s grip on power is hanging by a thread.
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COMMENTARY Florida is the chief source of high-power weapons smuggled to gangs in Haiti — so maybe the Gunshine State should deploy its troops there to rein in the violence.
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Haiti's embattled prime minister is in neighboring Puerto Rico, still unable to return to Port-au-Prince, as calls for him to resign grow louder by the day.
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With violent gangs blocking the prime minister's return, Haiti is lost in a power vacuum that a drug convict might fill — and Haitian expats say U.S. policy is partly guilty.