"Unable to find work, Laforet said it frustrates her to hear about aid agencies doling out food and jobs in the capital.
``No one has done anything for us here,'' she said, standing outside a pink, one-room shack on the outskirts of town. ``Everything is happening in Port-au-Prince.''
Some call Haiti ``the Republic of Port-au-Prince'' because no other city seems to matter, said Jean-Robert Lafortune, the president of the Haitian-American Grassroots Coalition, a Miami-based organization that has been advocating for greater decentralization. ``There has been an unbalanced development of Haiti, and that has an impact in terms of commerce and industrialization in other parts of the country,'' he said."
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Colombian Rebels Release 'Proof of Life' Video of French Hostage
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A Colombian guerrilla group released a video on Monday of a French
journalist the group captured last month during a gunfight with government
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