As CEP rejects appeal to oust front-runner U.S. observers issue scathing election report

By Kim Ives, Haiti Liberté, Nov. 25, 2015 On Nov. 24, Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) issued its definitive results for the Oct…

Diaspora demonstrators confront contested Presidential front-runner, activist Farah Juste arrested

By Kim Ives, Haiti Liberté, Nov. 25, 2015 Jovenel Moïse, who supposedly leads in Haiti’s controversial presidential first-round elections,…

U.S. observers: Haiti’s presidential elections deeply flawed

By Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, Nov. 24, 2015 A team of U.S.-based lawyers who witnessed last month’s Haitian elections say there is…

Showing Haiti on its own terms

By Alexandra Fuller, National Geographic, November issue, 2015 The Haitian student photographers ranged in age from 14 to their mid-30s,…

New survey casts doubt on Haiti election results

By CEPR (Center for Economic & Policy Research), Nov. 19, 2015 A new survey from the Brazilian Igarape Institute, released today,…

U.S. needs strict Haitian pledge of accountability

By Mark Weisbrot, Tribune news Service, Nov. 8, 2015 When an earthquake struck Haiti in January 2010, killing more than 200,000 people,…

Haitians are rising up against the stolen elections

By James North, The Nation, Nov. 13, 2015 The unrest sweeping across Haiti in response to the rigged October 25 presidential election is a…

CEP holdout breaks silence as election protests grow in Haiti

By Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, Nov. 12, 2015 The sole member of Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council who did not sign the…

After Haiti’s first-round elections, the legacy of intervention looms large

By Jake Johnston, NACLA (The North American Congress on Latin America), Nov. 11, 2015 Five years ago, Haiti’s current president, Michel…

Most candidates scorn vote results, but unity remains elusive

By Kim Ives, Haiti Liberté, Nov. 11, 2015 Other than Jovenel Moïse of the ruling Haitian Bald Headed Party (PHTK), almost all of the other…

Born Dominican, but locked out by Haitian roots and lack of ID

By Sandra E. Garcia, New York Times, Oct. 29, 2015 On any given weekday morning, children in the capital pile one behind the other on…

First-round Presidential results spark outrage, protests

By Haiti Elections Blog, Nov. 5, 2015 The CEP announced the release of preliminary results for the  October 25 presidential election today…

Presidential elections in Haiti: The most votes money can buy

By CEPR (Center for Economic & Policy research), Nov. 3, 2015 On Monday, Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) announced that the…

The tragic, forgotten history of zombies

By Mike Mariani, The Atlantic. Oct. 28, 2015 In the original script for 1968’s Night of the Living Dead, the director George A. Romero…

New documentary "Exposing Imperialism in Haiti" available free online

The violent overthrow of Haiti’s President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1991 and 2004 coups has ripped aside the democratic pretensions of US…