Latest Haiti Democracy News
Opposition May Be Complicit in Assassination
By Haiti Democracy Project for the Inter-American Dialogue: The opposition falsely accused Jovenel Moïse of ruling beyond his constitutional term, thus of ruling illegally. This “big lie” put him in danger in a country as unstable as Haiti. Look for that to be a pretext for whoever did it
Jovenel Assassinated
Killed at his residence, according to acting Prime Minister Claude Joseph. A horrific act that shreds what remains of the rule of law in Haiti
U.S. Supporter Puts the Idea into Practice!
An Oregon supporter of Haitian women candidates has thrown her hat into the ring locally! Catherine McMullen is a friend of the family of our former leader Amb. Ernest Preeg and is now an election official in Portland. She is running for county clerk in adjoining Clackamas County
Reposted from 2019 — U.N. Mission Needed for 20 Years: Edmund Mulet
The Security Council has sent five missions to Haiti, pulling them whenever it thinks stability has been attained. It needs to send one for twenty years with the power to make decisions
Haiti Project Warning of Possibility Two Weeks Ahead
By Haiti Democracy Project in the Washington Post. Washington has pulled out so many of the supports that Jovenel Moïse will be lucky to make it through his term. It has completely dismantled the protective edifice that three U.S. presidents erected over many years
U.N. Exhorts Haiti
Its potent mission withdrawn since 2017, the U.N. is reduced to exhorting the Haitian authorities to greater efforts well beyond their capacity and will. The Haiti Democracy Project loudly urged the U.N. to stay in 2017, while other pundits nodded off. It should be redeployed with a longer and stronger mandate, but given U.S. quarrels with a couple of permanent members, approval may not be automatic
Des spécialistes réclament la vaccination contre la covid
Par Radio Métropole. C’est l’ultime recours pour lutter contre la pandémie du corona virus. Le docteur François Willy Staco, soutient qu’il s’agit en réalité de la seule option viable
Jerline on the Mend
Our coordinator in Croix-des-Bouquets, shot in the neck last month while bravely resisting thieves trying to steal her phone, is able to eat again without a tube
Constitutions Are Replaceable
The Haitians say, “Constitutions are paper, bayonets steel.” But constitutions are also replaceable. Latin American countries have replaced them an average eleven times since independence
An Overstay Foretold?
Quietly and without fanfare, the provision in the new constitution’s first draft that has Jovenel Moïse leaving power on February 7, 2022 has been dropped in the second
Thirty Women to Train on June 29-30
Motivate and educate: These are the themes of a training session for thirty women candidates now set for the Nord-Est Department
Citing, Then Blighting
The historian Claude Moïse, whose book La croix et la bannière the Haiti Democracy Project translated into English in 2002, trenchantly asks how President Moïse can freely avail himself of the constitution by invoking its five-year presidential term, yet violate it by staging a strictly-forbidden referendum on a new constitution. As befits a writer of his stature, he freely acknowledges the complexities, yet in this instance, he fails to resolve them and ends by airily dismissing them in the Haitian manner
Women Propose Mediation
By Vant-Bef Info. With the men talking past each other and perpetuating the crisis, the Ligue Haïtienne des Femmes pour le Renouveau proposes a seven-person mediation drawn from the sectors to break the deadlock
Lights, Camera . . . Ginen
Interviewing on Radio-Télé Ginen (Guinea, for Africa)
Jérémie Forum on Violence Toward Women
Updated with new slide show, May 29. During April 12-16, 2021, the Women Candidates’ Project joined a training in the Grand’Anse to mobilize against violence toward women
Pounding on the Door
At this press conference at the Ritz-Kinam Hotel, the candidates let the world know that women will be pushing on the doors that have kept them from meaningful representation
Transition Is Unconstitutional
By Julie J. Chung, assistant secretary of state. Who would those people be? How chosen? To whom accountable? Under what law? The State Department asks the right questions. But as usual with this genre, it is long on admonitions to Haitians and short on introspection into the U.S. policy failures that brought Haiti to this pass
Referendum Is Unconstitutional
By Georges Michel. The 1987 constitution, Article 3, says, “Toute Consultation Populaire tendant à modifier la Constitution par voie de Referendum est formellement interdite.”
Official Launching of the Women Candidates Project
The women candidates will unveil their campaign this Friday, 10 a.m. at the Ritz Kinam (Kinam II) Hotel on Panamerican. There were only four women in Haiti’s last legislature of 149. They aim to do much better this time
Woman Candidate Shot
While riding home to Croix-des-Bouquets after a women candidates’ meeting on May 6, Jerline is shot in the neck. We don’t know all the circumstances, but violence against women candidates is commonplace and the number-one impediment to their entering politics