WASHINGTON — Jan. 12 marks five years since a magnitude-7.0 earthquake razed Port-au-Prince and threw Haiti into chaos. Raymond Joseph was Haiti’s ambassador to the United States at the time. While his country’s president and ...
WASHINGTON — Several hundred people packed the Chilean ambassador’s residence Thursday night to celebrate as Haitian politician Gérard R. Latortue received Chile’s highest honor for foreign nationals, the prestigious “Órden al Mérito.”
Four years after an earthquake killed 300,000 of its people and devastated its capital city, Haiti will outpace all its Caribbean neighbors in terms of economic growth.