The 13-year Haitian Revolution, led by general Toussaint L’Ouverture, paved the way for Haiti to be the first sovereign state in the Caribbean, the first Black republic in the Western Hemisphere and ...

A pair of jubilant Sandinista guerrillas ride into Managua on a tank flying a guerrilla flag on June 19 ... legal status if they made it onto land. Eventually, Haitian refugees found reprieve ...

The US flag has been flying at half-staff in the US since Jimmy Carter, their 39th president and leader of the free world between 1977 and 1980, died on December 29. It should be flying at half-staff ...

Haiti and Camus have made front-page news for unrelated reasons. While coverage of Haiti has focused on the 2010 earthquake ...

Several high-profile Haitian politicians trying to find a way out of a corruption scandal that has the country’s leadership ...

Government officials tell The Associated Press that Haiti’s health minister has been removed from his post after a deadly ...

Officials say more than 5,600 people were reported killed in Haiti last year as a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenya struggles ...

A contingent of 150 Guatemalan soldiers has arrived in Haiti, tasked with helping to restore ... a UN-approved international force that will be made up of 2,500 officers from various countries.

The new arrivals were made up of 75 Guatemalans and eight Salvadorans, a communications officer for the mission said. The president of Haiti's transitional presidential council, Leslie Voltaire ...

Markenzy Lapointe was born in Haiti and raised in Miami’s Liberty City before setting his sights on a law career.

However, only the white slaveowners were allowed to have such a delicacy and the slaves who made it were denied a taste. In 1801, the Haitian people reclaimed their country — and their soup ...