Tag: Haiti

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang speaks during a press conference at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing.

China’s top diplomat headed to South America

Joel Gehrke · September 17, 2018 9:22 pm

Chinese navy officials stand in front of the ship Daqing on Dec. 7, 2016, in San Diego.

Lawmaker: Chinese navy seeks to encircle US homeland

Joel Gehrke · August 24, 2018 4:56 pm

Let Them Stay

Christian Alejandro Gonzalez · August 17, 2018 9:01 am

Tires burn at a road block set up by anti-government protesters downtown during a general strike in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, early Monday, July 9, 2018. A nationwide, general strike and protest was called to demand the resignation of Haiti's President Jovenel Moise after his government agreed to reduce subsidies for fuel as part of an assistance package with the International Monetary Fund. The fuel hike was suspended after widespread, violent protests broke out on Friday and over the weekend.

Energy and Environment

US Embassy in Haiti calls for security reinforcements amid violent fuel riots

William Nardi, John Siciliano · July 10, 2018 9:37 pm

People loot a Delimart store that was burned during two days of protests against a planned hike in fuel prices in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, July 8, 2018. Government officials had agreed to reduce subsidies for fuel as part of an assistance package with the International Monetary Fund, but the government suspended the fuel hike after widespread violence broke out.

US embassy in Haiti tells Americans to shelter in place due to protests

Melissa Quinn · July 8, 2018 9:29 pm

President Donald Trump speaks at a luncheon with members of the United Nations Security Council in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019.

John Kelly backs path to citizenship for 60,000 Haitians

Joel Gehrke · May 11, 2018 5:18 pm

Fact Check: Has Another Doctor With Supposed Clinton Connections Mysteriously Died?

Holmes Lybrand · May 11, 2018 4:56 pm

More than 75 percent of the Lehigh University faculty took part in the online vote, with 83 percent voting in favor of rescinding President Trump's honorary degree. (AP Photo/Scott Campbell)

Lehigh University faculty vote to revoke Trump’s honorary degree

Mandy Mayfield · February 28, 2018 4:25 pm

British charity Oxfam's deputy chief executive on Monday resigned amid a scandal involving sex abuse in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake.
(Nick Ansell/PA via AP, file)

Beltway Confidential

Don’t condemn Oxfam for their sexual abuse, condemn them because they want to keep poor people in poverty

Tim Worstall · February 12, 2018 10:19 pm

Celina Benitez protests in Lafayette Park, across from the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 8, 2018, in reaction to the announcement regarding Temporary Protective Status for people from El Salvador. The Trump administration is ending special protections for Salvadoran immigrants, forcing nearly 200,000 to leave the U.S. by September 2019 or face deportation. El Salvador is the fourth country whose citizens have lost Temporary Protected Status. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Top Kelly ally resigns, sought extended amnesty for immigrants

Paul Bedard · February 9, 2018 10:56 pm

Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., said that whenever President Trump appears on TV, "there should be a disclaimer that says, 'This may not be acceptable for children.'"

Maxine Waters: Parental advisory should appear when Trump is on TV

Melissa Quinn · February 1, 2018 2:03 pm

Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., said the EPA chief, "Can I assume, like all decent Americans, you did not find Morocco, a North African nation, to be a shithole when you visited?" Duckworth was referring to reports that President Trump referred to African nations as "shithole countries" during an immigration policy meeting. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Energy and Environment

Tammy Duckworth asks Trump’s EPA chief if Morocco is a ‘shithole’

John Siciliano · January 30, 2018 6:27 pm