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Cité Soleil ( French pronunciation: [site sɔlɛj]; Haitian Creole: Site Solèy; English: Sun City) is an extremely impoverished and densely populated commune located in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area in Haiti. Cité Soleil originally developed as a shanty town and grew to an estimated 200,000 to 400,000 residents, the majority of whom ...
Cirque du Soleil ( French: [siʁk dy sɔlɛj], Quebec French: [sɪʁk d͡zy sɔlɛj]; "Circus of the Sun" or "Sun Circus") is a Canadian entertainment company and the largest contemporary circus producer in the world. [7] Located in the inner-city area of Saint-Michel, Montreal, it was founded in Baie-Saint-Paul on 16 June 1984 by former street ...
In 2004, UN peacekeepers entered Cité Soleil in an attempt to gain control of the area and end the anarchy. and they killed Billy "2Pac" who played in Ghost of Cite Soleil. U.S. Marines patrol the streets of Port-au-Prince in March 2004. The President of Guatemala also sent a small police delegation attached to TOMINUSHTA as translators
Sierre ( French pronunciation: [sjɛʁ]; German: Siders, [zidɐs]; Arpitan: Siérro, [ˈʃiʁo] ⓘ) is the capital municipality of the district of Sierre, located in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. It has a population of 16,332. Sierre is nicknamed City of the Sun ( French: Cité du Soleil) for its average of 300 days of sunshine a year.
An old gingerbread house in Pacot. The Universite Roi Henri Christophe in Limonade. Milot from the gates of the Sans-Souci Palace. The beach resort of Club Indigo near Saint-Marc. Cathedral of Jérémie. Limbé river. Le Musée de Guahaba/Guahaba Museum. Sunset on the beach in Port-Salut. View of Jacmel.
The commune harbors many low-income slums plagued with poverty and violence in which the most notorious, Cité Soleil, is situated. However, Cité Soleil has been recently split off from Port-au-Prince proper to form a separate commune. The Champ de Mars area has begun some modern infrastructure development as of recently. The downtown area is ...
1 UN soldier, 10 HNP policemen. 4 civilians. The Cité Soleil raid of 2007 began on February 10, 2007, in the Cité Soleil district of Port-au-Prince, capital city of Haiti. It was intended to crack down on a notorious gang leader called "Evans". The raid was part of the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti. [1]
Love Theatre at the Mirage Hotel. The project arose from discussions in 2000 [2] between George Harrison and his friend Guy Laliberté, one of Cirque's founders.Three years of negotiations between surviving band members Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, Beatles widows Olivia Harrison (representing George Harrison) and Yoko Ono (representing John Lennon), as well as Beatles' holding company Apple ...