Sentence examples for haiti from inspiring English sources

Nor is it likely Haiti will deliver a presidential campaign dividend to Hillary Clinton: as secretary of state, she made Haiti a priority, but her efforts failed to produce a foreign-policy success story.

The way he deals with the inevitable rumours about his sexuality ("Who does it hurt if someone thinks I'm gay"?) is wonderfully beguiling, and that's before we've even started on his humanitarian work in Darfur and Haiti, not to mention his friendship with President Obama, recently in the news following Clooney's bust-up with Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn.

He won first prize in 2010 in the live news photograph of the year category for his work documenting the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.

The charity wanted to be able to help in disasters like Haiti.

I was struck by the similarity between my grandfather's embassy-influenced observations from Mexico 85 years ago and those in the secret state department cables about Haiti, spanning April 2003 to February 2010, that Haïti Liberté has begun to analyse, thanks to WikiLeaks.

She knew what was best for Haiti and griped that he left a "political vacuum" that was "often filled by [Haitian political rivals] who do not necessarily have the nation's best interests at heart".

He acknowledged and apologised for his administration's promotion of dumping cheap US rice on Haiti, thereby destroying Haitian rice production and forcing rice farmers to flee to the overcrowded cities. Buttonholed in a UN hallway, he claims he thought that Haitians would "get aid to skip agricultural development and go straight into an industrial era".

Even before the earthquake, Haiti had few proper toilets, and no waste treatment facilities in a country of 10 million people.

Craig Minassian, a spokesman for the Clinton Foundation, said in an email that the organisation decided to help after reading about the Haiti team's predicament.

After years of threats that he would be arrested if he tried to return, Duvalier was now able to go back to Haiti without any real risk.

He found a new companion, again an upper-class Haitian, and she and Duvalierist remnants in Haiti encouraged him to try for a political comeback.