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<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : Palin ends two - day tour of Haiti ( Caribbean News Now )...</span>
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (MCT) -- Sarah Palin wrapped up a two-day visit in Haiti on Sunday after she toured cholera treatment centers set up by her host, Rev. Franklin Graham, the head of a religious relief group that operates here. "I do urge Americans not to forget Haiti," Palin said in the main compound of Samaritan's Purse, located north of Port-au-Prince. The former Republican vice presidential nominee's visit came 11 months after January earthquake that killed up to 300,000 people and threw another 1.5 million into squalid settlements. The quake was followed by a cholera outbreak that has has killed more than 2,000 people and infected tens of thousands. Reconstruction and relief efforts have been hampered by a Nov. 28 presidential election rife with allegations of fraud and other irregularities. Preliminary results released last week sparked two full days of unrest after a music star candidate was barred from the second round because he was not among the top two vote getters. Palin's trip was part of a mission organized by Samaritan's Purse, a Christian relief operation that evangelist Billy Graham's son Franklin heads. The former Alaska governor spent the trip surveying the religious group's work in two cholera treatment centers and handing out Christmas gifts to children. After a noon news conference, she took a helicopter tour over Port-au-Prince before her departure. Though she prefaced her remarks at the news conference by saying she wouldn't answer reporters' questions, she did answer one. She said she found "conditions" in Haiti to be "much harsher" than she anticipated. News conference aside, the tightly managed visit was closed to the press. Only Greta Van Susteren of Fox News received access.
<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : Palin ends two - day tour of Haiti ( Caribbean News Now )...</span>
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (MCT) -- Sarah Palin wrapped up a two-day visit in Haiti on Sunday after she toured cholera treatment centers set up by her host, Rev. Franklin Graham, the head of a religious relief group that operates here. "I do urge Americans not to forget Haiti," Palin said in the main compound of Samaritan's Purse, located north of Port-au-Prince. The former Republican vice presidential nominee's visit came 11 months after January earthquake that killed up to 300,000 people and threw another 1.5 million into squalid settlements. The quake was followed by a cholera outbreak that has has killed more than 2,000 people and infected tens of thousands. Reconstruction and relief efforts have been hampered by a Nov. 28 presidential election rife with allegations of fraud and other irregularities. Preliminary results released last week sparked two full days of unrest after a music star candidate was barred from the second round because he was not among the top two vote getters. Palin's trip was part of a mission organized by Samaritan's Purse, a Christian relief operation that evangelist Billy Graham's son Franklin heads. The former Alaska governor spent the trip surveying the religious group's work in two cholera treatment centers and handing out Christmas gifts to children. After a noon news conference, she took a helicopter tour over Port-au-Prince before her departure. Though she prefaced her remarks at the news conference by saying she wouldn't answer reporters' questions, she did answer one. She said she found "conditions" in Haiti to be "much harsher" than she anticipated. News conference aside, the tightly managed visit was closed to the press. Only Greta Van Susteren of Fox News received access.