Historic Park in Haiti’s Capital Overflows with Quake Survivors

by Gary Kopycinski on January 26, 2010

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Port-au-Prince, Haiti–(ENEWSPF)–26 Jan 2010– There is surely no more symbolic site in Haiti than Champs de Mars, Port-au-Prince’s main park and place of political power. On the park’s west side sits the now ruined Presidential Palace. To the north is the Dessalines barracks—which has been reduced to a façade—named after Jean-Jacques Dessalines, a leader of the Haitian independence movement. Looming over the park is an unfinished tower built to mark the bicentennial of…