Five years ago when the internationals threw Haiti to the wolves, the Haiti Democracy Project was about the only organization to clearly and loudly protest. Mum was the word from the OAS and all the establishment commentators
By Haiti Democracy Project in the Inter-American Dialogue’s Latin America Advisor, February 18, 2022. Haiti can’t do this alone, torn to pieces by intra-elite strife and the gangs they send out. The U.N. made sure that nine elections were held and no presidents overthrown or assassinated. Bring them back to restore order and have an election
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
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 for Haitian presidents over many years
Its potent mission withdrawn since 2017, the U.N. is reduced to exhorting the Haitian authorities to greater efforts well beyond their capacity and will.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
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