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Haiti’s President Michel Martelly (“Sweet Micky” to his music fans http://myspace.com/michelmartelly/music/songs) has been urging the world to view Haiti as a tourist destination. It certainly used to be. In 1975, Hillary and Bill Clinton honeymooned in Haiti, as have countless other couples. More importantly, Haiti is, for all her heartache, simply magnificent. And it is worth reminding people that Port-au-Prince is less than a 90 minute flight from Miami or Fort Lauderdale.
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Tobias, M., Morrison, J. (2014). How a Single National Park Might Help Transform a Nation: Haiti’s Pic Macaya. In: Why Life Matters. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07860-1_39
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