A wooden migrant boat lies grounded on a reef alongside mangroves, at Harry Harris Park in Tavernier, Fla., last year. The U.S. Coast Guard says that since October, has it intercepted and returned about 130 migrants to Haiti. Rebecca Blackwell/AP hide caption toggle caption Rebecca Blackwell/AP A wooden migrant boat
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Wife of assassinated Haitian president is indicted in his killing
Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise sits with his wife Martine during his swearing-in ceremony at Parliament in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday Feb. 7, 2017. A judge investigating the July 2021 assassination of President Moïse issued a final report that indicts his widow, ex-prime minister Claude Joseph and the former chief of Haiti’s
U.S. arrests 4 in Florida over the assassination of Haitian president
An image of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, right, is displayed as Markenzy Lapointe, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, speaks speaks during a news conference, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023, in Miami. Lynne Sladky/AP hide caption toggle caption Lynne Sladky/AP An image of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, right, is
Haitian migrants at US border: ‘We’ve been through 11 countries’
Even in late summer, few migrants attempt to cross into the United States from the Mexican border town of Mexicali. The temperatures are brutal, consistently in the mid-40C. And beyond the neighbouring US town of Calexico, lie many miles of inhospitable desert. Attempting the journey in the searing heat would