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US Congress Should Make New Years Resolution for Haiti

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IRC Americas Program - Jan 10, 2007
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/3894

U.S. Congress Should Make New Years Resolution for Haiti

by Brian Concannon, Jr.

New Year's Day has a history of hope for former slaves in the hemisphere:
Haiti freed its slaves and declared its independence on New Year's 1804; 59
years behind its southern neighbor, President Lincoln issued the U.S.
Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. But since then hope has been
scarce in Haiti. This year the island nation rang in the New Year with a
toll of alarm. A massacre in the urban settlement of Cit