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Growing security gives Haitians a sense of hope | |
2007-12-21 | |
The turning point may have been last weekend's massive hip-hop concert by Haitian-born Wyclef Jean -- the closest thing to a national hero in Haiti -- and Senegalese-born megastar Akon. Virtually everyone I talked to said the show would have been unthinkable just a year ago for fear of armed gangs and kidnappings. Few are willing to declare victory over the wave of abductions that almost paralyzed this country in recent years, but a sharp decline in kidnappings coupled with a budding sense of political stability have brought back a measure of hope -- at least in business and political circles. | |
Posted by:Steve White |