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Canada's Michaelle Jean in second official visit to Haiti

 

Canada's Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean says the time for surveying the devastation in Haiti is over and the time for action has begun.
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  • Demonstrators rip apart a poster of Haiti's President Michel Martelly during a protest against his government near the sight where Martelly is expected to deliver a speech marking his two years in office, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, May 14, 2013.

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  • Haitian singer Emeline Michel performed at Big Night in LIttle Haiti April 20 at the Little Haiti Cultural Center. She is among the artists who are headling this year's Haitian Compas Festival at Bayfront Park in Miami. Michel recently released This is Michel’s third trip to South Florida in recent months. She recently her much-anticipated CD, Quintessence.

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  • In this April 24, 2013 photo, Darlin Lexima speaks on the phone as he walks through Camp Acra in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Lexima, 21, who lives in the camp for people displaced by the 2010 earthquake, was arrested by police early April 15 when he was walking home from a disco club as police were responding to residents protesting an earlier raid by an unidentified band of motorcyclist who set fire to their homes. In the few weeks since the mid-April confrontation, it has become an instant symbol for what many say is the growing use of threats and sometimes outright violence to clear out sprawling displaced person camps, where some 320,000 people still live.

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    Attorney Reynold Georges showed up with a judge and a police officer on a recent afternoon at Camp Acra, a cluster of tents and plywood shelters scattered across rocky hills dotted with trees in the heart of the Haitian capital.

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