Haiti in Photos: A Year Later

The Presidential Palace stands in ruins behind a wall supporting former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, twice ousted in U.S.-backed coups d'état.Captions and photos by Tony SavinoA woman prays before a crucifix in front of the National Cathedral. Suggested Reading Post #3 6-18-2025 Post #2 6-18-2025 Post #1 6-16-2025 Video will return here when scrolled back into view…

The Presidential Palace stands in ruins behind a wall supporting former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, twice ousted in U.S.-backed coups d'état.Captions and photos by Tony Savino

A woman prays before a crucifix in front of the National Cathedral.

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A man walks in front of a sign advertising skin-lightening cream.

A boy at a tent behind Port-au-Prince's General Hospital after receiving help from international doctors.

Girls play at a camp for displaced persons in Pétionville.

A girl fetches water in Pétionville.

A house in the Bel Air section of Port-au-Prince.

Boys play in front of a mural depicting progressive luminaries and the Last Supper in Port-au-Prince.

A camp for displaced persons in front of the Presidential Palace.

Children lined up for food at a church.

A young woman fixes her hair in a broken mirror at a camp in Port-au-Prince.

Children at a camp in Port-au-Prince.

Children jumping rope at a Port-au-Prince camp.

A woman holds photos of her daughter, whose body remains in the wrecked house behind her.

Downtown Port-au-Prince.

Teenage girls joke as they apply nail polish in a camp for displaced persons in Pétionville.

People wait outside a clinic staffed by the French Red Cross.

Girls brush their teeth at a water tank at a camp in Pétionville.

Girls hold hands at a camp in the Canapé-Vert neighborhood of Port-au-Prince.

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