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In this picture taken March 21, 2013, homes painted in bright colors cover a hill in Jalousie, a cinder block shantytown in Petionville, Haiti. Workers this month began painting the concrete facades of buildings in Jalousie slum a rainbow of colors, inspired by the dazzling “cities-in-the-skies” of well-known Haitian painter Prefete Duffaut, who died last year. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

Haiti shantytown gets colorful makeover

Last updated Monday, March 25, 2013 - 1:30pm

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- One of Haiti's biggest shantytowns, a vast expanse of grim cinderblock homes on a mountainside in the nation's capital, is getting a psychedelic makeover that aims to be part art and part homage.

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A view of post-quake Haiti, on the run

Trenton Daniel The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, January 10, 2013 - 7:33pm

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Six days a week, the rail-thin athlete sets off at daybreak, his neon-green running shoes glowing in the grey light of dawn.

It’s hard not to notice Astrel Clovis. He’s one of the only runners ever seen in Port-au-Prince, where there are few sidewalks, let alone bike lanes, and major thoroughfares seemed more pothole than road even before disaster struck this city three years ago.

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Aristide, ex-Haiti president, says he is ready to return to homeland

The Miami Herald, Trenton Daniel

Last updated Thursday, January 20, 2011 - 12:50pm

MIAMI -- In what may be his first public statement since onetime nemesis Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier showed up in Haiti, former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide said he is "ready" to return to his troubled homeland.

Aristide, a two-time head-of-state, wrote a letter from South Africa, according to his former foreign press liaison, Michelle Karshan. Copies were e-mailed to a list of undisclosed recipients and it is now circulating on the Internet.

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