International aid worker Emmett Fitzgerald has to get 20,000 very poor people squatting in front of the National Palace to pack up their tarps and tin, their plastic buckets and soiled mats — to empty the most notorious camp in Haiti and go home. Read full article > >
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Two years after the earthquake, Haiti is trying to clear tent cities
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Two years after the earthquake, Haiti is trying to clear tent cities
Monday, February 20th, 2012
