Politics of Haiti

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How will Wyclef as candidate for president of Haiti affect the Haiti Presidential elections?

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Haiti was forced to make massive reparations to French slaveholders in order to receive French recognition as an independent nation and end the Haiti's political and economic isolation.

These payments, an estimated $22 Billion, permanently affected Haiti's economy and wealth.

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Here is a photo of Colonel Bernard Ouellette, Chief of Staff of MINUSTAH, the UN mission in Haiti.

Colonel Ouellette was fired in July 2010 for having a romantic relationship with a UN civilian in Haiti.

In July 2012, Colonel Ouellette files a lawsuit against the Department of National Defence and fellow officers for defamation.

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Just like in Iraq, Former US Vice President Dick Cheney's name has been mentioned in reconstruction contracts in Haiti.

Halliburton rings a Bell?

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Here is a photo of Former Haitian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Marc Bazin.

Marc Bazin was was prime minister of Haiti back in 1992

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US First Lady Michelle Obama made an unannounced visit to Haiti, her first, on April 13 2012.

First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden landed in Port-au-Prince Haiti before continuing to Mexico.

Obama and Biden spent several hours in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, visiting projects set up in the wake of the devastating earthquake in January.

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There are many Rwandan Police Officers in MINUSTAH, the UN Peacekeeping mission to Haiti.

Here is picture of Rwanda Police Officers, members of the Rwandan National Police Force

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On 17 Feb 2010, French President Nicolas Sarkozy became the very first President of France to visit Haiti since slave revolt in 1804.

This first visit ever by a French president to Haiti, once his nation's richest colony, lasted four-and-a-half hours.

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Here is a photo of Andre Birotte Jr., the Haitian American Inspector General of the LAPD.

On December 24, 2009, during a news conference in Los Angeles, US President Barack Obama nominated Haitian-American Andre Birotte Jr. to become the next U.S. attorney for the Central District of California.

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