Annual Report for the Year 2004
1. Narrative Report
During the year, the Haiti Democracy Project undertook a range of educational activities to promote a democratic transition in Haiti and inform U.S. public opinion. These activities included:
• State Department and press meetings for the president of the state university of Haiti, who had been injured in the political violence, in January
• An assessment mission in April, 2004
• A Washington community meeting with the interim prime minister of Haiti, Gerard Latortue, held at the Center for Strategic and International Studies on June 10, 2004
• A briefing and follow-up with Senate Appropriations Committee staff to increase the allocation for Haiti by $90 million, during August
During the year, the Haiti Democracy Project provided:
• Three expert witnesses to appear by request before the House Foreign Affairs Committee
• Two to appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
The organization also addressed these forums:
• Inter-American Dialogue
• Center for Strategic and International Studies
• George Washington University
• Tulane Law School
• Pace Law School
• Electrical Manufacturers’ Expo (investment promotion)
• Latin American Studies Association
• Haiti Advisory Group of Gov. Jeb Bush
• Academy for Educational Development
• National Association of Black Journalists
The organization mounted three delegations to Washington during the year:
• Delegation of ambassadors and senior board members of Haiti Democracy Project for congressional crisis meetings, February 25, 2004.
• Delegation of Haitian business leaders to Washington, September 13-15
• Delegation of civil-society leaders, November 17-19
The organization also granted some sixty-nine interviews to the major media, including:
New York Times
Washington Post
Los Angeles Times
Miami Herald
NBC Evening News
British Broadcasting Corp.
Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
National Public Radio
Philadelphia Tribune
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
St. Petersburg Times
Christian Science Monitor
Boston Globe
Reuters
Associated Press
Interpress Service
Cable News Network
C-Span
Cybernet News Service
Barbados Daily Nation
Latin America Adviser
Toronto Globe & Mail
Chicago Tribune
Newsweek
Baltimore Sun
WBUR-FM
Diane Rehm Show, WAMU
Voice of America
Dallas Morning News
Agence France-Presse
USA Today
Des Moines Register
Fox News Channel
Orlando Sentinel
Caribbean Media Corp.
Public Radio International
Throughout the year, the Haiti Democracy Project sought to present the insights of Haiti’s democratic intelligentsia to the Washington policy world, to assist the policy-makers in conceptualizing the Haiti problem. We did this by publishing exclusive translations of a number of Haitian writers including:
Nancy Roc
Gerard Pierre-Charles
Ericq Pierre
Claude Moise
Jean-Claude Bajeux
Conseil des Sages
The Haiti Democracy Project published one book, a reissue of The Haitian Dilemma: A Case Study in Demographics, Development, and U.S. Policy by our founding board member Amb. Ernest H. Preeg.
During the year, we published six occasional briefs and “talking points” including:
• “Let’s Get It Right This Time,” appeared on January 5, 2004. It was posted on our web page, http://haitipolicy.org.
• “The Lost Two Hundred Years,” by Haiti Democracy Project founding board member Sen. Orlando Marville, the former chief of the Organization of American States’ year 2000 electoral-observation mission to Haiti, January 2004
• Report of our assessment mission to Haiti (presented to Inter-American Dialogue)
• Review of World Bank developmental strategy for Haiti
• Reevaluation of departure of Aristide during Haiti’s bicentennial
• Chronology and fact sheet on second Aristide presidency
For many years, the organization’s website, http://haitipolicy.org, has been the most comprehensive source on Haiti’s struggle for a democratic transition. During 2004, we added approximately one thousand articles. During the first three months of 2004, visits to the website increased to twenty-nine thousand a month.
During the year, the Haiti Democracy Project conducted two fundraising collections for flood victims in Haiti, collecting and on-donating $2,700.
The organization continued to implement its Asylum-Assistance Program, which offers expert testimony on behalf of bona-fide Haitian asylum applicants. On January 20, 2004, a Newark, N.J. immigration judge awarded asylum to our client from Mirebalais, Haiti, who had been beaten and left for dead by pro-Aristide assailants, and later escaped to the United States. The expert testimony which the Haiti project offered to the court was accepted without contest by the government, and we also provided duly-executed witness affidavits from Haiti.
With these outputs, during the year the Haiti Democracy Project succeeded in its mission of furthering a democratic transition in Haiti.
Appendix: Chronology of Haiti Democracy Project Outputs on Behalf of Democratic Transition in 2004
On January 9, 2004, the Haiti Democracy Project contributed an article, “Waiting Too Long Seriously Risks U.S. Interests,” to the Latin America Adviser published by the Inter-American Dialogue.
On January 22, 2004, the Haiti Democracy Project granted an interview to the Toronto Globe & Mail in which founding board member Prof. Henry F. Carey, professor of political science at Georgia State University, advised the United States to shift its support to a democratic alternative.
On January 25, founding board member Senator Marville contributed an article to the Barbados Daily Nation encouraging Caricom to withdraw its support from the chaotic Aristide government of Haiti.
On January 30, the Haiti Democracy Project sponsored a series of high-level visits by Prof. Pierre-Marie Paquiot, president of the state university of Haiti. Professor Paquiot had been injured by pro-Aristide activists during an invasion of the university in December 2003. Our schedule for him included:
• Meeting with Assistant Secretary of State Roger F. Noriega
• Meeting with Rep. Cass Ballenger (R-N.C.), chairman of House International Relations subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere
• Meeting with thinktank heads at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
On February 11, the Washington Post writer Nora Boustany reported on Professor Paquiot’s Haiti Democracy Project seminar presentation in an article, “Haitian Professor Beaten Up, but Not Beaten Down.”
On the same date, the Haiti Democracy Project granted an interview printed in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel urging that the United States lend its support to peaceful groups in Haiti, lest it face violent ones later.
On the same date, the Haiti Democracy Project granted an interview to the Chicago Tribune, in an article written by Gary Marx on the situation in Haiti.
On the same date, the Haiti Democracy Project appeared on National Public Radio, the Tavis Smiley show, clarifying the distinction in Haiti between peaceful demonstrators and violent gangs.
On February 17, the Haiti Democracy Project granted an interview to Wolf Blitzer, Cable News Network on the situation in Haiti.
On the same date, the Haiti Democracy Project granted an interview to the New York Times calling for disarmament of violent groups in Haiti.
On February 18, the Haiti Democracy Project granted an interview to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel on the civil-society movement in Haiti.
On February 19, the Haiti Democracy Project founding board member Amb. Lawrence A. Pezzullo, former special envoy to Haiti for President Clinton, granted an interview to Newsweek magazine discussing diplomatic options.
On the same date, Ambassador Pezzullo granted an interview to Reuters News Agency noting that the Aristide government in Haiti had “run out the clock.”
On the same date, the Haiti Democracy Project granted an interview to Jim Lobe of the Interpress Service urging diplomatic action by the Organization of American States.
On the same date, the Haiti Democracy Project granted an interview to Associated Press recommending that the United States lend its support to nonviolent elements.
On the same date, Ambassador Pezzullo granted an interview to Georgie Anne Geyer of the Chicago Tribune outlining strategy options for the Organization of American States.
On the same date, Haiti Democracy Project associate Arielle Jean-Baptiste analyzed violence in Haiti for the Boston WBUR-FM radio station’s program “On Point.”
On the same date, Haiti Democracy Project founding board member Amb. Ernest H. Preeg, former U.S. ambassador to Haiti, analyzed Haitian elections on the Diane Rehm Show on radio station WAMU-FM..
On the same date, the chairman of the board of the Haiti Democracy Project Timothy M. Carney, past and future U.S. ambassador to Haiti, appeared on National Public Radio’s Tavis Smiley show to outline policy options.
On February 21, Haiti Democracy Project director James Morrell appeared on the Voice of America outlining policy options.
On February 22, the Haiti Democracy Project granted an interview to the National Public Radio’s Morning edition to review U.S. strategy in Haiti.
On the same date, Ambassador Pezzullo appeared in the Baltimore Sun calling for a peaceful outcome.
On the same date, the Haiti Democracy Project’s director James Morrell appeared on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s show “The National” outlining policy choices.
On the same date, Haiti Democracy Project associate Arielle Jean-Baptiste appeared on the National Public Radio’s Tavis Smiley show noting that the civic opposition was nonviolent.
On February 24, the Haiti Democracy Project’s Morrell granted an interview to the Los Angeles Times calling for support of democratic forces in Haiti.
On the same date, the Haiti Democracy Project issued a chronology and fact sheet authored by associate Terry Thielen, a former project director for Creative Associates in Haiti.
On the same date, Ms. Thielen granted an interview to the Dallas Morning News outlining policy options.
On February 25, Haiti Democracy Project director Morrell granted an interview to the Washington Post recommending that the United States promote a neutral transition regime to hold elections.
On the same date, board chairman Ambassador Carney led a delegation of the Haiti Democracy Project to confer with Sen. Bob Graham (D-Fla.) and Reps. Howard Berman (D-Calif.) and Jim Oberstar (D-Minn.) on policy options.
Members of the delegation:
• Amb. Timothy M. Carney, former and future U.S. ambassador to Haiti and chairman of our board
• Amb. Ernest H. Preeg, founding board member and U.S. ambassador to Haiti 1982-84
• Victoria A. Butler, board member and member of CRInternational
• Terry Thielen, associate, former project director in Haiti for Creative Associates
• Arielle Jean-Baptiste, associate, former personnel specialist, Agency for International Development
• James Morrell, executive director, Haiti Democracy Project
On the same date, Morrell granted an interview to Agence France-Presse calling for a change in U.S. policy.
On February 27, Ambassador Carney granted an interview to the St. Petersburg, Fla. Times outlining policy options.
On February 28, Haiti Democracy Project board members Victoria A. Butler and Clotilde Charlot and associate Alice Blanchet granted an interview to the Christian Science Monitor outlining the politics of Haiti.
On the same date, Ambassador Carney granted an interview to the New York Times recommending a peaceful transition.
On the same date, Ambassador Carney granted an interview to the Miami Herald outlining options.
On the same date, board member Clotilde Charlot granted an interview to Newsday on the threat to democracy posed by corruption.
On March 1, board member Charlot granted an interview to the Boston Globe on Haitian political dynamics.
On the same date, she granted an interview to Newsday on the threat to democracy posed by corruption.
On the same date she granted an interview to Reuters on the awakening of civil society in Haiti.
On the same date, Haiti Democracy Project director Morrell granted an interview to the NBC Evening News with Tom Brokaw about U.S. policy toward Haiti.
On March 2, 2004, Judge Claudy Gassant, former panelist at three Haiti Democracy Project seminars, granted an interview to the Miami Herald. In 2006 he was appointed chief prosecutor in Haiti.
On the same date, Haiti Democracy Project associate Arielle Jean-Baptiste granted an interview to Cable News Network on U.S. policy and Haitian civil society.
On the same date, the Haiti Democracy Project granted an interview to the Baltimore Sun on U.S. diplomatic options through the OAS.
On the same date, Haiti Democracy Project director Morrell granted an interview to the Dallas Morning News on policy options.
On the same date, Haiti Democracy Project chairman Ambassador Carney; founding board member and former OAS election chief Senator Marville; and state university president Professor Paquiot testified on behalf of the Haiti Democracy Project before the House International Relations Committee.
On the same date, Ambassador Carney granted an interview to USA Today on U.S. policy options.
On March 3, the Haiti Democracy Project granted an interview to the New York Times outlining policy options.
On the same date, the Haiti Democracy Project granted an interview to the Boston Globe on the situation in Haiti.
On the same date, the Haiti Democracy Project held a seminar at the Center for Strategic and International Policy, co-sponsored by the International Foundation for Election Systems, on policy options toward Haiti. Presenting were:
• Founding board member Ambassador Pezzullo
• Michael Heinl, co-author of Written in Blood: The Story of the Haitian People, 1492-1995 (Lanham, Maryland: The University Press of America, 1996)
• Founding board member Ambassador Preeg
• Associate Arielle Jean-Baptiste
On the same date, project director Morrell granted an interview to the Des Moines Register on U.S. policy options.
On March 5, associate Alice Blanchet conferred with Sen. Hilary Clinton (D-N.Y.) on transition options in Haiti.
On March 6, board chairman Ambassador Carney granted an interview to the New York Times outlining policy options.
On March 8, project director Morrell granted an interview to the Boston Globe reviewing policy options.
On March 10, founding board member Ambassador Pezzullo testified for the Haiti Democracy Project before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was joined by Michael Heinl, also a participant in our March 3 seminar at CSIS.
On March 14, founding board member Senator Marville wrote an article on policy options in the Barbados Daily Nation.
On March 15, the Haiti Democracy Project granted an interview to the Washington Post on policy options.
On March 16, the Haiti Democracy Project granted an interview to the Fox News Channel on nation-building strategies.
On March 19, associate Arielle Jean-Baptiste granted an interview to the Philadelphia Tribune on Haitian political dynamics.
On March 20, the Cybercast News Service reported on the Haiti Democracy Project’s activities.
On March 25, the Los Angeles Times reported on the Haiti Democracy Project’s activities.
On March 30, founding board member Charlot granted an interview to Newsday on Haitian political dynamics.
On April 1, associate Alice Blanchet presented at the symposium “The Crisis in Haiti: Why African Americans Should Care” sponsored by the National Association of Black Journalists.
During the first three months of 2004, visits to the Haiti Democracy Project website http://haitipolicy.org increased to 28,779 a month in response to the dramatic events in Haiti and our exclusive coverage of many aspects.
On April 4, the Haiti Democracy Project wrote an essay on Haiti’s progress toward free elections at the invitation of “OpenDemocracy.org,” for publication.
On April 6, project director Morrell appeared on the National Public Radio show Morning Edition to outline options for long-term nation-building.
On April 9, project director Morrell presented at a forum of the Inter-American Dialogue.
On April 12, Morrell granted an interview to the St. Petersburg Times on U.S. policy options.
On April 12-16, Haiti Project associates Terry Thielen and Arielle Jean-Baptiste and director James Morrell conducted an assessment mission to Port-au-Prince to assay the interim regime’s situation and opportunities for the U.S. government and people to help. The team interviewed:
• Prime Minister Gerard Latortue
• Ministers of health, planning, agriculture, foreign affairs, finance, and justice
• Leading human rights and civil-society organizations
Some findings of the assessment mission were shared with the Latin American Adviser of the Inter-American Dialogue . These included the nature of the tasks inherited by the interim government and the tendency of foreigners to overlook these problems.
Findings of the assessment mission were also aired on the BBC World Service on May 10.
On April 15, associate Jean-Baptiste appeared on National Public Radio’s Tavis Smiley show.
On April 23, the Haiti Democracy Project presented at the “Summit on Haiti,” held at Tulane University in New Orleans.
On April 26, the Haiti Democracy Project took part in the panel discussion “What Does the Future Hold for Haiti” held by the International Affairs Society of George Washington University.
On May 4, the Haiti Democracy Project presented at the seminar “Haiti in Crisis: The Search for Democracy” held by the International Law Society and Black Law Students' Association of Pace University, White Plains, New York.
On May 16, founding board member Sen. Orlando Marville wrote on Caricom policy in the Barbados Daily Nation.
From May 28, the Haiti Democracy Project conducted a fundraising drive for hurricane and flood victims. On July 2, the organization on-donated the proceeds to the Pan-American Health Organization.
On June 7, the Haiti Democracy Project granted an interview to the Orlando Sentinel about developmental issues in Haiti.
On June 9, founding board member Senator Marville granted an interview to the Caribbean Media Corporation on OAS policy toward Haiti.
On June 10, the Haiti Democracy Project presented interim prime minister Gerard Latortue at the Center for Strategic and International Studies to an audience of two hundred. Event covered by C-Span and Cable News Network.
At the event, founding board member Ambassador Preeg delivered a statement, “Why Haiti Is Not a Failed State.”
On June 22, project director Morrell published an article, “Bases of a Successful Approach to Haiti,” in Focal Point (Canada), “Spotlight on the Americas.”
On July 13, the Haiti Democracy Project’s website published an exclusive English translation of “We must Learn to Be Bigger Than Our Problems,” an essay by Ericq Pierre, senior technical adviser at the Inter-American Development Bank. The essay was a tribute to the late Leslie Delatour, former governor of the Haitian central bank.
On the same date, board chairman Ambassador Carney appeared on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” to review governance in Haiti.
On July 20, project director Morrell appeared on Public Radio International’s “To the Point” program for a review of Haiti policy. The show aired on KCRW, WAMU, and WNYC among other national affiliates.
On July 21, founding board member Ira M. Lowenthal published exclusively on the Haiti Democracy Project website a policy paper, “Don’t Leave Out Civil Society and Political Parties,” with recommendations for increasing the effectiveness of donor aid to Haiti. Lowenthal was also Haiti country director of the America’s Development Foundation.
On July 22, the Haiti Democracy Project published an exclusive on-line edition of the book by Amb. Ernest H. Preeg, The Haitian Dilemma: A Case Study in Demographics, Development, and U.S. Policy. The book was first published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in 1996 and had gone out of print. The republication, a .pdf file of 145 pages, was by authorization of the CSIS press. Ambassador Preeg is a founding board member of the Haiti Democracy Project and held the Scholl Chair in International Business at CSIS from 1988 to 1998.
On July 23, the Haiti Democracy Project published on its website an exclusive English rendering of “Will It Be a Long, Hot Summer?” by the prizewinning Haitian journalist Nancy Roc.
On July 29, the Haiti Democracy Project met with a high-ranking delegation from Haiti at the Academy for Educational Development, under the auspices of the State Department’s International Visitors’ Program. The Haiti Democracy Project delegation was led by founding board member Ambassador Preeg. The Haitian delegation included Max Mathurin, president of the Provisional Electoral Commission; Edouard-Laporte Paultre, president of the Protestant federation; other members of the CEP; Carline Simon Morancie, mayor of Port-au-Prince; and others.
On August 5, a delegation of the Haiti Democracy Project including Arielle Jean-Baptiste and Francois Jean briefed senior staff of the Senate Appropriations Committee in advance of a staff visit to Haiti. During their visit to Haiti, Haiti Democracy Project associate Jean-Baptiste made arrangements for them to see a broad cross-section of Haitian society. As a result of their findings, the senior staff of the committee and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) helped persuade the Senate to add another $90 million for Haiti to the appropriations bill.
On August 14, the Haiti Democracy Project published on its website an exclusive English translation of Nancy Roc’s essay Aout 2004: entre alternance et persistance. The prizewinning journalist warned of perils to the democratic transition.
On August 16 the Haiti Democracy Project granted an interview to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s show “The Current,” making recommendations for U.S. policy.
On August 24, the Haiti Democracy Project granted an extensive interview to BBC in which it stated the core themes of the organization, namely the imperative to achieve a free election that could produce a legitimate government. We also underlined the need for the United States to be engaged, not just blindly in support of whatever personality promised stability, but intelligently in support of democratic civil society. We also called for the solidarity of international public opinion to be with the Haitian people and not with such individual personalities.
On September 13-15, the Haiti Democracy Project conducted a delegation of Haitian business leaders to Washington to learn officials' viewpoints on Haiti questions and communicate the situation in Haiti. The delegation's personnel:
• Richard Morse, owner and manager of Hotel Olaffson, Port-au-Prince
• Lionel Delatour, vice-president of Centre pour la Libre Enterprise et la Démocratie
• Rudolph Boulos, Beckman Crown Brewing Co.
• Gerald Emile Brun, vice-president, Tecina S.A.
• Clement Stanly Beyda, GB Group
The delegation’s schedule included:
• Assistant secretary of state Roger F. Noriega
• Deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury Nancy Lee
• Department of Defense
• Department of Commerce
• Overseas Private Investment Corporation
• Inter-American Dialogue, convenor. Attending: French embassy, Heritage Foundation
International Republican Institute, National Democratic Institute, National Center for State Courts, International Foundation for Election Systems
• Inter-American Development Bank
• International Monetary Fund
• Agency for International Development
• International Finance Corp.
• Rep. E. Clay Shaw, Jr. (R-Fla.)
• Rep. Gregory W. Meeks (D-N.Y.)
• Rep. William Delahunt (D-Mass.)
• Rep. Alcee L. Hastings (D-Fla.)
• Senate Appropriations Committee
On September 20, the Haiti Democracy Project took part in a panel discussion at the annual Electrical Manufacturers’ Expo in Indianapolis. Represented by founding board member Rudolph Boulos, the project urged investors to start the motor of job-creation and outlined the advantages of a free-trade zone that straddles the Dominican-Haitian border. Also taking part on the same panel, in addition to the private Haiti Democracy Project, were representatives of the governments of Mexico and Honduras. We also had a booth at the convention to boost investment in Haiti staffed by Gladys Racine of Silver Spring, Md.
On September 22, the Haiti Democracy Project, represented by Arielle Jean-Baptiste, appeared on the National Public Radio show “Talk of the Nation,” focusing on environmental questions.
On October 4, the Haiti Democracy Project, represented by founding board member Amb. Ernest Preeg, addressed the first meeting of the Haiti Advisory Group appointed by Florida governor Jeb Bush. His presentation focused on ways Florida and the United States can promote Haiti’s reconstruction.
Throughout September the Haiti Democracy Project conducted a flood drive for the victims of the Gonaives flood. On February 20, 2005, board chairman Amb. Timothy M. Carney presented these funds to the headmistress of St. Joseph’s College in Gonaives during a Haiti Democracy Project delegation visit to the city.
On October 5, the Haiti Democracy Project published on its web page an exclusive translation of Le Monde correspondent Jean-Michel Caroit’s article “The U.N. is criticized for its inaction during violence in Haiti.”
On October 9, Haiti Democracy Project director Morrell presented a paper, “1804–2004: Parallels in Haiti’s Struggle for Liberation and Unity,” at the annual convention of the Latin American Studies Association, held in Las Vegas. Morrell appeared on a panel entitled, panel of the Twenty-fifth Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, "The Revolution Bicentennial in Hispanola."
On October 10, the Haiti Democracy Project published on the web page exclusively a forceful article by Nancy Roc, De Gonaïves à Bagdad : du purgatoire aux portes de l’enfer. The article was written specially for the Haiti Democracy Project.
On October 26, the Haiti Democracy Project published on its web page an exclusive translation of a statement against violence issued by the proto-parliament set up within the interim government named Conseil des Sages.
On October 27, the Haiti Democracy Project published on its web site an extensive tribute to the late Gerard Pierre-Charles, the brilliant Haitian sociologist and co-founder of both the Haitian Communist Party and the Organization of the People in Struggle. It collected twenty-nine of his writings that had appeared on the web page since 1996, many of them exclusive translations by the Haiti Democracy Project.
On October 27 the Haiti Democracy Project published as well an exclusive translation of Gerard Pierre-Charles’s incisive article “Beware That Liberation Movement Not Be Newly Misdirected or Cut Off” (“Crise De L’état et Intervention Internationale En Haïti.”)
Also on October 27, the Haiti Democracy Project published an exclusive translation of human-rights leader Jean-Claude Bajeux’s article “The New Face of Macoutism.”
Also on October 27, the Haiti Democracy Project granted an interview to Jim Lobe of Interpress for the article “U.S. Lifts Arms Embargo on Haiti as Tensions Mount.”
On November 8, the Haiti Democracy Project published on its web page an exclusive translation of economist Ericq Pierre’s article, “Planning the U.N. Presence in Haiti.”
On November 11, the Haiti Democracy Project published on its web page an exclusive translation of economist Ericq Pierre’s article, “Ideas for a More Effective OAS.” The original French appeared in Le Matin.
On November 17–19, the Haiti Democracy Project conducted the “Delegation to Move Haiti Forward,” a three-day visit of Haitian civil-society leaders to Congress and the executive branch. The delegation comprised:
• Lionel Delatour
• Arielle Jean-Baptiste
• Reginald Boulos, president of chamber of commerce
• Frandley Denis Julien, Initiative Citoyenne/Group of 184
• Robert Nicholas, director of overseas programs, African Episcopal Methodist Church
The delegation’s schedule:
• John Merrill, Department of Defense
• Rep. Cass Ballenger (R-N.C.), chairman of House Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere
• Rep. William Delahunt (D-Mass.)
• Rep. Diane Watson (D-Calif.)
• Rep. Donna M. Christian-Christenson (D-Virgin Islands)
• Open Society Institute
• State Department
• Rep. Kendrick B. Meek (D-Fla.)
• Rep. Alcee L. Hastings (D-Fla.)
• Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.)
• Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.)
• Rep. Janice D. Schakowsky (D-Ill.)
• Inter-American Development Bank
• Jan Stromsem, National Center for State Courts
• Mark Schneider, International Crisis Group
On November 18, the Haiti Democracy Project published on its web page an exclusive translation of constitutional scholar Claude Moise’s piece “Rethinking the Transition,” which originally appeared in Le Matin.
On December 10, the Haiti Democracy Project published on its web page an exclusive translation of economist Ericq Pierre’s article “Let’s Not Play the Victim in Our Relations with CARICOM,” which originally appeared in Le Matin.