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The aftermath of Haiti's uncommonly vicious tyrant Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his murderous regime's end - May 5, 2004
                      
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A girl runs past a dumpster overflowing with burning trash. Since the ouster of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide two months ago, Haiti has sunk even deeper into poverty.
                      
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A woman in Fort Dimanche laying biscuits to dry, biscuits made of butter, salt, water and dirt. The Haitians face shortages of food and electricity.
                          
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Jean Panel sells biscuits made of butter, salt, water and dirt in Fort Dimanche. The price of rice, the Haitian staple, has doubled in some parts of the country.   
                                
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Vendors sell their wares in the street in front of growing mounds of garbage in Port-au-Prince.
                                                        
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Women sell merchandise by the candles, oil lamps and the occasional headlight of passing cars. electricity
                      
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Haitians hopeful of getting one of 6,000 coveted jobs in a new police force line up to register at the National Police Academy. The national police force was decimated by last month's armed rebellion. 
                    
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A resident of Fort Dimanche, a former political prison now renamed Democracy Village, pushes a wheelbarrow through rain water mixed with sewage.
                         
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Burning garbage clogs the main market street in Port-au-Prince. The interim Haitian government is faced with an exhausted treasury, a vast corrupt and demoralized state work force, wary international donors and lingering doubts about the manner in which Mr. Aristide left the country.
                              
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A Haitian woman searches through a large trash dump, searching for things to eat or sell. Though foreigners have promised aid, little has reached Haiti since the president was exiled.
                              
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Haitians who have suffered through decades of misrule say their patience with the interim government is wearing.

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