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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday met with Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille, who is visiting Washington for talks on his country's post-earthquake reconstruction efforts.

Haitian President Michel Martelly fired members of a nine-person electoral council to make way for legislative and local elections planned for next year.

Oprah Winfrey will visit Haiti next week and will be hosted by Haiti's President Michel Joseph Martelly.

President Michel Martelly wants to create 500,000 jobs in Haiti over the next three years. Some of the job opportunities will come from a new Marriott hotel planned for Port-au-Prince and a South Korean-run industrial park slated to open next year in the north, both championed by former U.S. President Bill Clinton this week on a two-day visit.

As one of his first executive acts, Haiti’s new president, Michel Martelly, has asked donor nations to help him re-establish the army that was disbanded by President Jean-Bertrand Aristide 16 years ago. The initial cost: $95 million, which will go, Martelly says, to a starter force of 3,500.

At best, Martelly’s priorities are confused. At worst, they are ominous. He is proposing to spend a lot of money on a militia that Haiti doesn’t need when the country is still in shambles because of the 2010 earthquake. Worse, he is reconstituting an institution that was used, from the 1950s onwards, almost exclusively as a tool of oppression.

Haiti's new prime minister and his cabinet have taken office after months of delay in forming a government.

At present, the armies from several countries, including Uruguay, are occupying Haiti. How is this military invasion justified? By alleging that Haiti endangers international security. Nothing more. Haiti Occupied Country is an article written by Eduardo Galeono and is dedicated to Guillermo Chifflet who was forced to resign from Uruguay’s Chamber of Deputies when he voted against sending soldiers to Haiti.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The Haiti reconstruction panel co-chaired by former U.S. President Bill Clinton announced a major new project Wednesday to rebuild part of the capital damaged by last year’s earthquake. The Interim Haiti Recovery Commission said it plans to spend $78 million to revitalize 16 neighborhoods and remove roughly 30,000 people from six major settlement camps that formed after the January 2010 disaster.

A working committee was set up in the provisional electoral council (CEP) in order to achieve "an overhaul of the electoral law", under the aegis of which were held presidential and legislative elections of November 2010 and March 2011.

The Department of State has issued this Travel Warning to inform U.S. citizens traveling to or living in Haiti about the security situation in Haiti. This replaces the Travel Warning dated January 20, 201.