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Last modified on Mon 19 Jul 2021 15.43 EDT The Haitian political activist Marie Antoinette Duclair appears to have been unaware that two men on a motorbike were following her car through the badly lit streets of Port-au-Prince. Her passenger on the night of 29 June was a journalist, Diego Charles. They had been attending a meeting, and she was now, at 11 o’clock at night, dropping him at his home in the Christ-Roi area of Haiti’s capital. As Charles walked to his door the gunmen on the motorbike opened fire, killing him first before murdering Duclair as she sat in her car.

Guns, gangs and ‘bad aid’: Haiti’s crisis reaches full throttle Peter Beaumont © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Joseph Odelyn/AP The Haitian political activist Marie Antoinette Duclair appears to have been unaware that two men on a motorbike were following her car through the badly lit streets of Port-au-Prince. Her passenger on the night of 29 June was a journalist, Diego Charles. They had been attending a meeting, and she was now, at 11 o’clock at night, dropping him at his home in the Christ-Roi area of Haiti’s capital. As Charles walked to his door the g...

Haiti’s fate is intertwined with the U.S. Ishaan Tharoor , including news from around the globe, interesting ideas and opinions to know, sent to your inbox every weekday. © Shannon Stapleton/Reuters A man speaks on the phone next to a mural in the Little Haiti neighborhood of Miami on July 8. President Biden acknowledged it was “a God-awful thing to say,” but he said it anyway. “If Haiti just quietly sunk into the Caribbean or rose up 300 feet, it wouldn’t matter a whole lot in terms of our interest,” the longtime senator from Delaware said in a 1994 TV intervie...

The filibuster allows senators to block or delay action on a bill through debate that can only be ended by a 60-vote supermajority -- except in the cases of executive branch and federal judicial appointments, budget resolutions, and trade agreements. Because Democrats hold a slim majority in the Senate with Vice President Harris as the tie-breaking vote, calls to reform the filibuster have grown, with President Biden also endorsing the idea. But the Democrats still lack the votes to make substantial changes -- more moderate members of the party, such as Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, ...

Letters to the Editor: Heartbreaking photo symbolizes border crisis San Francisco Chronicle readers FacebookTwitterEmail An immigrant child glances back towards Mexico after crossing the border into the United States on April 14, 2021 in La Joya, Texas. Many Central American families who make the arduous journey describe their voyage as harrowing though the length of Mexico. Most pay large sums to smugglers, who often treat them, essentially, as cattle. Others fare even worse. They come nonetheless.John Moore/Getty Images Regarding “U.S. to unite kids separated from families” (May 4): Joh...