Haitian Presidential Candidate Released
A presidential candidate wanted for questioning in the 2000 slaying of a prominent journalist was detained for nine hours for allegedly carrying unregistered weapons in his car, a member of his political party said Tuesday. Dany Toussaint, a former army major and senator running for president on a pledge to restore order to chaotic Haiti, was arrested Monday by U.N. peacekeepers at a checkpoint, said Ulrick Gabriel Fils-Aime, a senate candidate from Toussaint’s Democratic Movement of Haiti Party. Full Story