Jean-Bertrand Aristide

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The lawyer of Haiti's Jean-Bertrand Aristide says actor Danny Glover has arrived in South Africa to escort the exiled former president home. Miami lawyer Ira Kurzban flew to Johannesburg Wednesday on the same mission amid...

Only a day into his run, the entertainer is already facing resistance in the thorny world of Haitian politics. For starters, an electoral council must validate whether Jean meets the qualifications to be a candidate. If he is certified as a candidate, he'...

Michel “Sweet Micky” Martelly appears to be the winner in Haiti’s presidential election. The popular Kompa singer turned political candidate captured nearly twice as many votes as his opponent, former first lady and academic Mirlande...

By Robyn Dixon Reporting from Johannesburg — Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, deposed and exiled in a 2004 coup, offered today to return to Haiti, saying he could not wait to go home and rebuild his country after Tuesday's devastating...

Rev. Gerard Jean-Juste Priest fought for Haitian immigrants The Rev. Gerard Jean-Juste, 62, an influential Haitian Roman Catholic priest who fought for his countrymen's rights in the U.S., died Wednesday in a Miami-area hospital of complications from...

Since last week's devastating earthquake in Haiti, the world's attention has turned to the country as it rarely has before. Yet it's been the focus of literary explorations for decades. In the 1930s, Zora Neale Hurston traveled to Jamaica and......

Built on a classic brother-against-brother narrative, Danish filmmaker Asger Leth's "Ghosts of Cité Soleil" is a forceful documentary set against the 2004 Haitian coup d'état that toppled the government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. An...

Back when the part-time actor, lawyer, lobbyist, former senator and presidential hopeful Fred Thompson was still merely "testing the waters," he held one of his first official news conferences, in a windowless room of the Indianapolis Convention Center....

"The Agronomist" is a wonderful gift in a plain brown wrapper, an unexpectedly moving and exciting story that's arrived with a most ordinary title and a subject matter not likely to make heartbeats quicken. It almost seems an act of magic that an...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti · International mediators trying to halt a bloody rebellion in Haiti hit the same roadblocks Saturday that have deadlocked the country for almost four years, drawing conditional promises of compliance from President Jean-Bertrand...

Tras semanas de violencia política que cobró decenas de vidas en Haití, varios países -- incluyendo Estados Unidos -- presionaron al presidente Jean-Bertrand Aristide para que renunciara, pese a que fue elegido democráticamente. {iquest}Podría pasar lo...

El caos y la anarquía han hecho presa de Haití, un país donde su debilitada democracia se ha derrumbado como un castillo de naipes con la salida repentina del presidente Jean-Bertrand Aristide el pasado domingo. La versión oficial es que el mandatario...