Haitians are hopeful - September 13-15, 2005 |
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| Haitians register to vote at the registration center in Port-au-Prince,
Haiti, Thursday, Sept.15, 2005. Today is the deadline to register with the Provisional
Electoral Council for the Nov. 20 election. Some 2.2 million people, about half of those
eligible, have registered to vote. A Jan. 3 runoff will follow if no candidate gets more
than 50 percent of the vote. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) |
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| People wait in line to register to vote at the registration center in
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Sept.15, 2005. Today is the deadline to register with the
Provisional Electoral Council for the Nov. 20 election. Some 2.2 million people, about
half of those eligible, have registered to vote. A Jan. 3 runoff will follow if no
candidate gets more than 50 percent of the vote. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) |
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| People wait in line to register to vote at the registration center in
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Sept.15, 2005. Today is the deadline to register with the
Provisional Electoral Council for the Nov. 20 election. Some 2.2 million people, about
half of those eligible, have registered to vote. A Jan. 3 runoff will follow if no
candidate gets more than 50 percent of the vote. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) |
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| U.N. Special Envoy Juan Gabriel Valdes, U.S. Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice, Jean-Marie Guehenno, United Nations under secretary for peacekeeping
operations and Suana Rivero, deputy U.N. ambassador for Uruguay, face other foreign
representatives across the table during a meeting on the subject of Haiti, Wednesday, Sept
14, 2005, in New York. (AP Photo/Stuart Ramson) |
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| Brazilian peacekeeper ride inside an armored vehicle with suspected gangs
members arrested in Bel-Air in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Sept.13, 2005. Brief
gunbattles started in Bel-Air after a protest march was stopped from Bel-air to the bureau
of registration and frustrated youth began throwing stones at peacekeepers. Leaders from
ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide's party were barred from registering a jailed
priest as their presidential candidate Tuesday. The provisional electoral council in
charge of organizing elections said it would not register the Rev. Gerard Jean Juste, a
prominent supporter of Aristide, because candidates a required to be physically present to
sign the registration form. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) |
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| A Brazilian U.N. peacekeeper takes a suspected gang member into custody
in the slum of Bel-Air in Port-au-Prince, Haiti,Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2005. A brief gunbattle
started in Bel-Air Tuesday after a protest from Bel-air to the Register Bureau was halted
and youths began throwing stones at peacekeepers. Protesters were hoping to register
jailed priest Rev. Gerard Jean Juste as their presidential candidate Tuesday. (AP
Photo/Ariana Cubillos) |
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| A supporter of Rev. Gerard Jean-Juste covers his face as he wears a
Pro-Jean-Juste t-shirt during a protest supporting Jean-Juste's candidacy in the slum of
Cite-Soleil in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2005. Leaders from ousted
president Jean-Bertrand Aristide's party were barred from registering a jailed priest as
their presidential candidate Tuesday. The provisional electoral council in charge of
organizing elections said it would not register the Rev. Gerard Jean Juste, a prominent
supporter of Aristide, because candidates a required to be physically present to sign the
registration form. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) |
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| A woman hugs a baby as U.N Brazilian peacekeeper stay on position during a brief
gunbattle in the slum of Bel-Air in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Sept.13, 2005. Brief
gunbattles started in Bel-Air after a protest march was stopped from Bel-air to the bureau
of registration and frustrated youth began throwing stones at peacekeepers. Leaders from
ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide's party were barred from registering a jailed
priest as their presidential candidate Tuesday. The provisional electoral council in
charge of organizing elections said it would not register the Rev. Gerard Jean Juste, a
prominent supporter of Aristide, because candidates a required to be physically present to
sign the registration form. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) |
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| Emmanuel 'Toto' Constant, a former strongman who once boasted that voodoo and the CIA
shielded him from trouble, gestures during a press conference in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in
this file photo of Sept. 22, 1994. A lawsuit brought by three Hatian immigrants in
Manhattan federal court against Constant - who now lives in the Queens borough of New York
- claims he sanctioned systematic rape to silence dissent against a right-wing regime. (AP
Photo/John McConnico, File) |
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