Ezra Fieser covers Haiti for GlobalPost. Ezra was formerly the deputy city editor for The (Wilmington, Del.) News Journal, a staff writer for Springfield (Mass.) Republican and a Pulliam Fellow at The Arizona Republic. A graduate of Emerson College in Boston, he lives with his wife and infant daughter in the Dominican Republic. He was formerly a fellow for the Institute of Current World Affairs.
Mexico's deadly drug gang pushes into Dominican Republic, suggesting cartels see Caribbean as a supplement to Central America corridor — a shift US officials have feared.
The Caribbean lacks commodities, it's not a major producer of raw materials and it has relatively little buying power. Yet China is investing billions there.
Thousands of Haitians are being kicked out of camps — sometimes violently.
Baby Doc made a puzzling return. Now a former president wants to come back too.
Can Haiti's informal economy eschew cash and embrace phone-to-phone money transfers?
Photos: Is a "model" camp a ticking time bomb for cholera?
5,000 people showed up to vote at 1 polling station that had only 39 names on the list.
Campaign teams attacked, journalists ambushed and murders have spiked ahead of Haiti elections.
Protesters set fire to a police station and clash with UN forces as the cholera death toll grows.
There are few early favorites in Haiti's presidential race.
The unease over the influx of Haitians mirrors the immigration debate in the US.