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Nicolas Maduro, President of Venezuela, paid his first official visit to Haiti in order to discuss the renewal of special funding to help Haiti revive itself from the devastations caused by 2010 earthquakes. The special funds use oil money for the development of infrastructural project in Haiti. Maduro met the Haitian President, Michel Martelly privately on the grounds where the National Palace used to stand before the earthquake of 2010. This Maduro's first visit to Haiti after the former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez visited Haiti in 2007. Maduro said that Chavez had a desire to return to Haiti and so, Maduro is here to represent Chavez.

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Neg Mawon, which in Creole means The Black Maroon and in English referred to as "Unknown Slave" is a statue that represents the Haitian Revolution. It shows a man holding a conch shell to his lips with the left hand with the right hand holding a machete and the left leg extended having a broken chain on the ankle.

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Here is a picture of Neg Maron suddenly having a lot of people moving into his neighborhood in Port-au-Prince following the Haiti earthquake of 2010.

Many people were living in tent a a result of Haiti Earthquake 2010. Champ de Mars was one of the locations where thousands of people who became homeless built their tent

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