The New York Times
Friday, January 15, 2010 - 00:00
This is not a natural disaster story. This is a poverty story
Friday, January 15, 2010 - 00:00
We wish he had added that his administration had found the courage, in this emergency, to take a basic but politically difficult step - to grant temporary protected status to undocumented Haitians in the United States
Friday, January 15, 2010 - 00:00
The United States has struck an agreement with the Cuban government to send medical evacuation flights with victims from the Haiti earthquake through restricted Cuban airspace
Friday, January 15, 2010 - 00:00
Honduran Supreme Court President Jorge Rivera has ordered all six members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to remain in the country and testify in court next week. The charge carries a sentence of three to six years in prison
Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 00:00
Florian Westphal, a spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Crossin Geneva, said some relief planes had landed but there was a lack of personnel to unload them and “little security.”
Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 00:00
President Hugo Chavez indefinitely suspended rolling blackouts in Venezuela's capital just a day after they began, and sacked his electricity minister saying he was responsible for mistakes in the way the rationing plan was applied
Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 00:00
Bizarre as the story is, its conclusion is likely to put an end to a political crisis in Guatemala that has threatened the survival of President Álvaro Colom’s government
Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 00:00
The Coast Guard cutter Forward, dispatched from the American naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, arrived early Wednesday, the only large vessel in the harbor
Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 00:00
The collapse of the organization’s headquarters in Haiti during the earthquake on Tuesday appears to have produced a death toll larger than any previously endured by United Nations employees in a single day
Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 00:00
Look at Haiti and you will see what generations of misrule, poverty and political strife will do to a country