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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: Oct 03, 2015
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• Category : Diaspora News
• Description : Miami Herald
  SEPTEMBER 29, 2015
  
  BY JACQUELINE CHARLES
  jcharles@miamiherald.com
  
  Photo: A man sits inside a voting center after it was closed due to violence, during parliamentary elections in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, August 9, 2015. Dieu Nalio Chery AP
• Location : Miami, FL, United States
• Website : http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article36982800.html

Overview

• Haiti’s presidential campaign is coming to South Florida.
  
  Candidates in the Oct. 25 presidential elections will be presenting their programs to South Florida’s burgeoning Haitian community Sunday when Port-au-Prince-based Radio Television Caraibes (RTVC) and Friends of Haiti diaspora organization sponsor a presidential debate in North Miami.
  
  It is the first such gathering of Haitian presidential candidates in South Florida. Two other similar forums were held in New Jersey on Sept. 12 and Washington, D.C., on Sept. 15.
  
  While the Washington town hall came under fire because candidates were asked to speak in English as opposed to French or Creole, Magalie Theodore said “this one is going to be in Creole.” It will begin at 4 p.m. at North Miami Senior High, 13110 NE 8th Ave.
  
  Theodore, a member of Friends of Haiti, said candidates will be questioned by several well-known journalists including Valery Numa of Vision 2000; Jean Monard Metellus of Radio Caraibes; and Robenson Geffrard, the lead elections reporter for Haiti’s Le Nouvelliste newspaper.
  
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