Haitian President Rene Preval (L) and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

WASHINGTON — US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joined Haitian President Rene Preval Tuesday in calling for new elections in quake-hit Haiti as soon as possible.

Legislative polls, originally set for February and March, were postponed after the January 12 earthquake that demolished the capital Port-au-Prince, killing more than 220,000 people and leaving one million Haitians homeless.

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By MICHELLE FAUL

A damaged section of the National Penitentiary in Port-au-Prince is shown on Saturday, March 6, 2010. More than 5,000 prisoners who fled their cells following January’s devastating earthquake, are now being slowly rounded up by Haitian police and returned to a system notorious for appalling conditions and delays

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The skinny teenager appears nervous, and with reason: He is waiting for a tap on the shoulder that could send him back to the dismal prison where he spent four years without being charged or seeing a judge.

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The Haiti Coup “The Bush Clinton Presidencies (Cahill, Robinson, Blum)

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1844 – Dominican Republic declares its independence from Haiti.

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