Haiti: Just When You Think It Can't Get Any Worse

By: Beverly Bell, Other Worlds, originally posted here.

We may soon look back on this period in Haiti with greater appreciation. Amidst the world-historic levels of death and suffering from last January’s earthquake, citizens have at least been spared the scale of government violence that has marked much of their nation’s past (not-with-standing attacks against internally displaced persons during forced evictions, and occasionally against street protesters.)

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What Kind of Change Will Sweet Micky Bring to Haiti?

Since the beginning of the electoral campaign up until the present day, Mr. Martelly has proclaimed change. Change is a word that means many things to the Haitians who are hearing it, because change is what the country needs.

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Elections Without Voters: Further Erosion of Haiti’s Democracy & Self-Determination 15 Months after the Earthquake

For immediate release: April 4, 2011

Washington, DC: As Haitians along with the international community brace for the preliminary results of the second round in Haiti’s presidential and parliamentary elections, reports are minimizing the massive disenfranchisement, fraud and low voter turn-out in both the first and second rounds.

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Low Participation and Obstacles for the March 20th Election in Haiti

Midday Progress Report: Low Participation and Obstacles for the March 20th Election in Haiti

Compiled by Let Haiti Live, a project of TransAfrica Forum. Observer teams include representatives from: Let Haiti Live, Bri Kouri Nouvèl Gaye, Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti and International Action Ties

The morning started off quietly  and was marked by low voter turn out in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on this second round election day. Teams visited polling places throughout downtown Port-au-Prince, Cite Soleil, Petionville, Delmas, Carrefour, and the camps for internally displaced people (homeless earthquake survivors) at Corail and Kanaran.

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Tell the US to Stop Meddling in Haiti's Democracy

The next 48 hours are critical for Haiti, as twice-popularly elected democratic President Jean Betrand-Aristide attempts to return home from his seven-year forced exile in South Africa.

Aristide won an overwhelming popular mandate not once, but twice from the Haitian people after nearly two hundred years of struggle to establish democracy. Due to his social platforms that aimed to make the dream of democracy and redistribution of resources a reality, he was twice removed from power by those who would like to see Haiti’s impoverished majority remain prisoners of a brutal status quo.

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