Hti: Powell's visit
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell made a quick stop in Haiti on Monday to meet with government officials and U.S. Marines posted here for about a month.Bitch, bitch, bitch. That's all some people do.
Powell also visited and AIDS and tuberculosis clinic near the Cite L'Eternel area of Port-au-Prince.
As U.S. Marines and Haitian national police blocked a wide stretch of Harry Truman Avenue in the neighborhood around the Gheskio Centero Center, thousands of residents, including school children on their way home, gathered near the center.
Most were drawn by the presence of Marines in their armored vehicles and trucks with heavy weapons. Many did not know what the fuss was all about.
Jean Boicale, 55, an unemployed farm hand, was somewhat critical of the Powell visit.
''If he's just coming to see, that's no good,'' Boicale said. "Is he bringing medicine, food and money? These are the things the people here need.''
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