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Latin America and the Caribbean reacted immediately to the crisis in Haiti with an outpouring of aid to Haitian and foreign victims of the quake, many of whom were from the Americas. The region is sadly too familiar with the devastating effects of earthquakes, hurricanes and floods. These natural disasters, which span national boundaries to affect neighboring countries, destroy the…
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The European Union (EU) announced a donation of 1.2 billion euros (1.6 billion dollars) at the international conference on Haitian reconstruction being held in New York, organized after January’s devastating earthquake.
On March 24 a combat group from the 3rd Peace-Keeping Infantry Company of the Brazilian Battalion, part of MINUSTAH (BRABATT 1), on a motorized patrol through the streets of Port-au-Prince, encountered an emergency situation.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday urged world nations to foster a "wholesale national renewal" of Haiti as the nation emerges from a devastating earthquake.
Almost one million survivors of the 12 January earthquake in Haiti will receive materials with which to protect themselves during the upcoming rainy season, the Red Cross indicated today.
The multipurpose amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5) and embarked Marines from the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) completed their support to Operation Unified Response and depart Haiti on March 25th.
Haiti will decentralize its economy and has designed for this purpose an infrastructure investment plan that will be presented at the international donor conference to be held in New York on 31 March, Haitian finance minister Ronald Boudin declared.
Ecuador has sent 405 tons of food and water for victims of the Haitian earthquake, which left at least 220,000 dead on 12 January, the National Risk Management Bureau announced.
Santo Domingo will take advantage of its position as cultural capital of the Americas in 2010 to export to the entire continent its rich and active cultural life, a great attraction that “sometimes people have to come from outside to get us to see,” the minister of culture, José Rafael Lantigua, affirmed.
Brazilian General Luiz Guilherme Paul Cruz was named the new military commander for the UN mission in Haiti, replacing fellow Brazilian Major General Floriano Peixoto, the UN office in Brazil said Thursday.
Rain fell for several hours in Port-au-Prince, flooding some camps and forcing thousands to flee, in a new threat facing the survivors of the earthquake.
