Latest Haiti Democracy News
And Back in Haiti?
By Frantz Duval in le Nouvelliste, October 15, 2022. While the international actors perhaps put together a mission, what is happening here in Haiti? Click on the orange to find out
Gangs Burst into Haiti’s Biggest Fuel Depot Again
On October 14 they break into the north gate and make off with four tanker trucks and drums carrying twenty-eight thousand gallons of gasoline
Private Sector Supports Rescue Mission
Understands and supports the difficult but responsable decision to seek foreign support against the resurgence of cholera and the gangs’ month-long blockage of the country’s principal fuel depot. And because the police despite their best efforts can’t make headway against the gangs
Intervention Not a Blank Check
A foreign intervention, if it comes, should not be a blank check. It should be in the service of the country, not the government in power, leading to a transition government. Excerpt from article by Jean-Marie Théodat, Sorbonne University
Foreign Cleansers
Historian Georges Michel: “It’s a foreign force that has to come to clean up the place because we can’t do it. To pacify the country you’ve got to import a foreign army.”
Project Sending Mission to State Department
The Haiti Democracy Project is sending a mission to the State Department and other reaches of the bureaucracy to plead for a robust rescue mission to free up clean water, food, and medication for masses of Haitians now in the path of a cholera epidemic
81 Percent Want Foreign Force — Poll
81% des enquêtes répondent positivement à l’arrivé de la force étrangère pour chasser les gangs illégaux
Let Haitians Decide
So said a sign carried in front of the White House on October 9. The vast majority of Haitians would now welcome intervention against the gangs from any quarter, foreign or domestic. Are these Haitians included among the ones who should decide?
Women Endorse Multinational Police
Eleven Haitian women’s organizations, ours included, call on foreign police to help their Haitian counterparts to restore order — part of a larger call to repress the gangs and make way for elections. Together these organizations claim to represent 250,000 Haitian women
U.S. Considering Haiti’s Request
Alarmed by the emergency created by the gangs blocking the distribution of fuel the United States is considering the Haitian government’s request for security aid submitted to the U.N. Security Council. Lack of fuel is shutting down pumps leading to spread of cholera
Haiti Requesting U.N. Military Aid
On October 6, 2022, the Ariel Henry government requested the Security Council to aid Haitian police in restoring order
Boots on the Ground NOW! — Amb. Pamela White
“It is time to throw away the gloves and stop pretending that ‘normal’ diplomacy will work in Haiti. Boots on the ground right NOW. I personally don’t care if they are mercenaries or UN troops or former New York policemen – the killing has got to stop!” says the former ambassador. BRAVA!
With the Female Prisoners of Jacmel
On August 25, 2022 the women candidates went to the jail to provide medical support for women held there
Pulling UN a Big Mistake — OAS
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
Eyes on the CEP
Past discrimination resulted in the last legislature having only four women out of 149 members. On June 27 and July 14, 2022 the Haiti project’s women-candidates initiative held seminars in Port-au-Prince focusing on the electoral commission’s complicity in this discrimination
Reflections One Year After
One year after the tragedy of a presidential assassination, it is clearer than ever that respect for elections is key to Haiti’s future
Gangs Reflect Intra-Elite Struggle
By Haiti Democracy Project for the Inter-American Dialogue’s Latin America Advisor, May 22, 2022. Gangs are the shadow-play of Haiti’s latest power struggle at the top. They won’t be wished away by a chaste “Haitian-led solution.” Only a full peacekeeping mission can get rid of them
Get UN in There While There Is Still Something Left to Save
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
Meet These Brave Women Seeking to Change Haiti
The majority of voters in Haiti are women. The determined women in this video aim to put a better alternative on the ballot than the gangsters-in-politicians’-garb who have ruled Haiti for so long
Activism Against Gender-Based Violence
Aided by $1,000 from the Haitian government’s women’s-affairs ministry, the women candidates waged a nonstop campaign against sexual violence going door-to-door in Camp Perrin and two other populous communes in the Sud province