Jocelerme Privert is Haiti’s new provisional president

By Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, Feb. 14, 2016 The former head of Haiti’s Senate and National Assembly was elected the country’s…

Accord or discord? Political agreement eases tensions, but crisis persists

By Haiti election Blog, Feb. 14, 2016 Update: Jocelerme Privert has been elected provisional president by the National Assembly.   …

Haitian President Michel Martelly bids farewell

By Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, Feb. 7, 2016 Thirty years after beginning its frail democracy with the fall of President-for-Life Jean…

Haiti's fraudulent presidential frontrunner seizes land for his own banana republic

By Joshua Steckley & Beverley Bell, Other Worlds, Jan. 21, 2016 This report is based on extensive interviews, on-site and via phone,…

New study suggests peacekeeping host countries remain vulnerable: Advocates call on UN to prevent troops from introducing cholera to host countries

By Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (IJDH), Jan. 29, 2016 Human rights advocates welcome a new study by Yale University…

Survey: Haitians overwhelmingly support investigation into election fraud

By Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR), Feb. 3, 2016 Less than three percent of Haitians would have voted in the planned…

"The people are fed up": Haiti on the brink of bloody revolution (radio interview)

By Brian Becker & Kim Ives, Sputnik News, Feb. 1, 2016   Listen to the radio interview   Haiti is in the midst of a political crisis…

The Martelly regime begins deploying death squads as tens of thousands foil fraudulent elections

By Kim Ives, Haiti Liberté, Jan. 27, 2016 On Jan. 22, many thousands marched over ten miles up Port-au-Prince’s Delmas road to Pétionville…

For US in Haiti, black votes don’t matter

By Mark Weisbrot, Al Jazeera America, Jan. 29, 2016 Journalists are taught in school to avoid euphemisms. When someone dies, they write…

Sure, Washington has always supported democracy in Haiti

By Greg Grandin, The Nation, Jan. 26, 2016  “As in the past, the United States is taking great interest in how elections in Haiti are…

Haiti cancels presidential election as violence erupts

By Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, Jan. 22, 2016 Amid escalating violent protests and attacks on electoral offices around the country,…

In Haiti, turning human waste to flowers

By Alexis K Barnes, medium.com, Jan. 20, 2016   For 14 years, forty-year old Marline Jean did not have a toilet in her home. When…

Haiti's election crisis: How did we get to this point?

By Nikolas Barry-Shaw, Boston Haitian Reporter, Jan. 20, 2016 As this Sunday’s elections approach, Haiti is in the throes of a full-blown…

No women in new Haitian parliament

By Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, Jan. 18, 2016 As the Haitian Senate prepared to induct its newest lawmakers last week, outgoing Senate…

As Feb. 7 approaches: Bogus election or Provisional Government?

by Yves Pierre-Louis & Kim Ives, Haiti Liberté, Jan. 20, 2016 According to Haiti’s Constitution, President Michel Martelly should pass…

The blood of the Earth: Agriculture, land rights, and Haitian history

By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds, Jan. 13, 2016 Yesterday, January 12, on the sixth anniversary of the 7.0 earthquake, Haitians mourned the…