Little more than six months after the latest regime change in Haiti, heads are beginning to roll-literally. More than two weeks of street violence in the slums of the capital, Port-au-Prince, have claimed an estimated 55 lives, including three policemen who were found beheaded. Haitians have plenty to be upset about. The interim government that took over after Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the president, was deposed in February has made painfully slow progress. Haitians were promised public- works projects financed by $1.5 billion in foreign aid approved in July, but not much has been disbursed.
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