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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

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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.

Miami Herald

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 Conversation

'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…

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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…

Los Angeles Times

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

The Independent UK

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.

Reuters

'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.

Miami Herald

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.

Al Jazeera

'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…

France 24

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

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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.

Miami Herald

12 days after one of their doctors was abducted, these Haiti hospitals are still closed

Two hospitals in Haiti’s capital that specialize in the care of childhood cancer, COVID-19 and women with high-risk pregnancies remain closed more than a week after they suspended operations to demand the release of one of their doctors, who has been kidnapped, and to protest the violence that’s paralyzing medical…

Miami Herald

Search for survivors suspended in Haitian migrant boat capsize near Puerto Rico that left 11 dead

After days searching more than 6,600 square miles of ocean, the U.S. Coast Guard stopped looking for possible survivors Sunday night after an overloaded boat carrying Haitian migrants overturned near Puerto Rico’s western coast last week.

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Coast Guard calls off search for survivors from capsized Haitian migrant vessel

The U.S. Coast Guard said on Monday it had called off the search for survivors from last week's capsizing of a vessel carrying Haitian migrants that left at least 11 dead.

The Independent UK

Fatal boat trip highlights Haitians fleeing violence

Haitians are fleeing in greater numbers to the neighboring Dominican Republic, where they step onto rickety wooden boats as they attempt to reach Puerto Rico — a trip in which 11 Haitian women drowned this week, with dozens of other migrants believed missing

Reuters

Seven more survivors found in Haitian migrant vessel capsizing

The U.S. Coast Guard has found an additional seven survivors from the capsizing of a vessel carrying Haitian migrants, a Coast Guard spokesman said on Friday, taking the total number of survivors to 38 with the death toll unchanged at 11.

The Guardian - US

‘Incredible cruelty’: gang battles leave 150 dead in Haitian capital

Scores wounded as violence paralyses Port-au-Prince forcing thousands to flee their homes

Reuters

Eleven dead after Haitian migrant vessel capsizes near Puerto Rico

At least 11 people drowned when a vessel carrying Haitian migrants capsized near Puerto Rico, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Thursday, amid a steady increase in migrants attempting reach U.S. shores in dangerous marine voyages.

Miami Herald

Haiti National Police officer jailed in US on drug charges

A Haiti National Police officer who is accused of conspiring with one of the country’s leading cocaine traffickers and was brought to the U.S. on international narcotics charges is currently jailed in Wisconsin.

Miami Herald

At least 11 people dead after boat carrying Haitian migrants capsizes near Puerto Rico

At least 11 people died and 31 people were rescued after a boat carrying Haitian migrants overturned Thursday near an uninhabited island off Puerto Rico’s western coast, according to federal authorities.

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