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Eleventh Legislative Delegation
Deputy Gary Bodeau (representing Delmas), head of the Chamber of Deputies, visits the State Department, the Senate minority leader, and several other leading members of Congress
A Plea from SHE THE PEOPLE
Wiselaine Dorcélus, coordinator of women’s recruitment, writing to James Morrell, director of the Haiti project, on March 23, 2019.
Good Practical Advice for Haiti
Some $1.4 billion in Dominican goods pour across the border every year, paying next to no taxes. The leading thinktank the Center for Strategic and International Studies shows how Haiti could balance its budget by just collecting a moderate duty on this commodity tsunami.
Heavy Contributor
While politicians were pillaging the state, Reginald paid $17.9 million in taxes
Standing with Cyrus
Snapshot of this project’s director standing with crusading Haitian journalist Cyrus Sibert
Tenth Senatorial Delegation: Raising Women’s Rights Each Time
Senator Luma Etienne made sure that six members of Congress and the State Department got the message loud and clear
Let’s Not Accept Delay of Elections
One of our delegates is insisting they will be delayed. The point, however, is to make every effort to hold them on time
Straight Talk from Reginald
Désintégration de l’État..Dislocation des structures sociales. Le temps est venu de s’indigner et de dire NON.!
Tenth Senatorial Delegation
Haiti Democracy Project brought three senators to make Haiti’s case to Washington during March 5-8, 2019. They saw six members of Congress, the State Department, the Inter-American Development Bank, and leading thinktanks
We Made Sure . . .
. . . that the only woman in the Haitian senate would be on this delegation
Correcting an Overwrought Nouvelliste Writer
U.S. foreign policy has committed enough real sins without our having to invent new ones
SHE THE PEOPLE Slideshow
You’re going to meet some people who refuse to be second-class citizens
Reginald Proposes Three-Step Solution
The leading businessman wants the president and prime minister to agree on a plan. If not, he has two fallbacks to resolve the crisis
U.S. Statement on Haiti
As is usual with this genre, long on recommendations to the Haitians and short on corrections to the U.S. policies that helped bring on this disaster
Réginald lance un mouvement politique
Neither the violence of the so-called “left” nor the corruption of the so-called right, but entrepreneurs joining with the people to modernize the government. The route successfully taken by many of Haiti’s neighbors
Lest We Forget: Reginald’s Letter to the Nation
Penned last summer after demagogic politicians sent mobs to burn his stores
Themes from Reginald’s Letter
A vandalism coldly calculated and perpetrated under cover of crowds of the discontented
Women’s March
Slideshow
What Jovenel Moïse must do
Analysis of the little-known group l’Alliance Démocratique pour la Réconciliation Nationale: Clear out the flatterers and put in those of known competence and incorruptibility. Use them to keep international support and win back that of the lower-middle classes who elected him
The Bear Is Loose
Persecuted for the crime of having attempted to modernize Haitian politics and assure a livelihood for each and every Haitian, Rudy Boulos keeps calm and carries on