Posts Tagged ‘food price riots’

Haiti’s tourism dreams deferred by riots – Miami Herald

No matter how insulated tourists are in their all-inclusives, bad news can severely dent Caribbean economies, given how dependent we are on the business.
Haiti for all it’s problems – their official tourism site even features a section on child adoption – has a growing tourism product, the thought of which surprises us even here in [...]

Haiti since Aristide’s departure

Haitian priest Gerald Jean-Juste narrates a Miami Herald slideshow on the anniversary of the resignation of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in February, 2004. Now, two months after his narration was recorded, the Haitian government is again under pressure with high food prices sparking rioting and Prime Minister Jacques-Édouard Alexis consequently voted out of office.
Source: The Miami [...]

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