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Haiti’s government collapsed April 12, 2008, after a week of food riots prompted the Haitian Senate to remove Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis from office.  Enraged by the soaring cost of staples such as rice and beans, Haitians had engaged in a week of rioting that cost at least five people their lives. 

Read a story by the Reuters news service here:

http://www.reuters.com/article/homepageCrisis/idUSN12217781._CH_.2400

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