Banning of Popular Party ‘Threatens’ Haitian Election’s ‘Success’
Voter turnout in last weekend’s Haitian Senate elections was very low; observers cited in a Reuters report, “Haitians Largely Boycott Senate Election,” estimated it at less than 10 percent, which an...
View ArticleConflating Ousted Presidents and Former Dictators in Haiti
It was certainly surprising to see former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier return to the country on January 16. To say he hasblood on his hands is an understatement–the Duvalier regimes were...
View ArticleHaitian Candidate’s ‘Roguish’ Threat to Kill Aristide
Here is Michel Martelly, one of the two conservative candidates vying to be next president of Haiti, courtesy of Kim Ives in an Institute for Public Accuracy release: In the years following Aristide’s...
View ArticleWashPost’s Hot Air on Haiti’s ‘Fresh, Vital Force’
Washington Post editorialist Lee Hockstader wrote a puff profile on Haiti’s thuggish President-elect Michel Martelly (“Haiti’s ‘Sweet Micky’ Martelly Turns Presidential,” 4/24/11), whom he depicts as...
View ArticleZakaria and Democracy ‘Tension’
In the new issue of Time (12/12/11), Fareed Zakaria writes in the first sentence of his column: It is difficult to find a country on the planet that is more anti-American than Pakistan. In a Pew...
View ArticleJames Traub Bids a Fond Farewell to an Era of Constant Warfare
James Traub seemed a little bummed in a Sunday New York Times op-ed (“The End of American Intervention?,” 2/18/10), that military cuts and changing priorities will mean fewer humanitarian...
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