About the Book: A piercingly powerful memoir, a grandson’s account of the coup that ended his grandfather’s presidency of Haiti, the secrecy that shrouded that wound within his family, and his urgent efforts t
Which countries and islands are part of the Caribbean region? What are some major physical features of the Caribbean Sea? Show more News • Organization of American States under pressure from the US to help quell gang violence in Haiti • May 22, 2025, 2:26 PM ET (AP) Typical la...
Italy sits in a unique place within the EU: while it has come under scrutiny for its large debt (only the US and Japan have more) and its sluggish economy (only Zimbabwe and Haiti grew more slowly from 2000 to 2010) it also commands the largest share of the Eurozone economy outside ...
These words are the communicative arts… a complex array of Napolean Bonaparte’s, spare parts, and hopeless romantic hearts, who would do anything to bottle Terrence & Phillip farts, and open those bottles in front of the faces of plutocratic oligarchs. Putting boys in leotards. You’re gonna...
On rainy days, villagers in many parts of the world hold banana leaves over their heads to keep them from getting wet! Banana leaves are sometimes used as wedding decorations, where they are thought to bring good luck and wealth to the couple getting married. In places such as Haiti, when...
“We have sunk almost to the bottom of the table, perhaps just above Haiti and Bolivia,” the Stabroek News, an independent daily, commented recently. Guyana has had virtually no economic growth in 10 years and in the mid-1980s suspended payments on its foreign debt, now $1.9 billion. ...