Before Haiti’s president-elect even takes office, he’s battling money-laundering suspicions

By Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, Jan. 24, 2017 A Haitian judge is investigating a report by the government’s financial crimes unit…

Legislative elections also go to the PHTK and its allies

By Catherine Charlemagne, Haiti Liberté, Jan. 18, 2016 Humans, unlike other animals, possess what philosophers call reason. Without…

Seven years after the earthquake: Haiti in an unprecedented humanitarian, food, and climate crisis

By Jake Johnston, Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR), Jan. 12, 2017 To mark the 7th anniversary of the 2010 earthquake…

Human rights lawyers call Haitian electoral court’s verification a lost opportunity

By Mario Joseph & Nicole Phillips, The Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (IJDH), Jan. 10, 2017 The Bureau des Avocats…

Senator-elect and former paramilitary leader Guy Philippe arrested on drug charges

By Jake Johnston, Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR), Jan. 5, 2016 UPDATE 1/6/2017: The federal indictment against Philippe…

Former Haiti coup leader Guy Philippe arrested

By Jacqueline Charles & Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, Jan. 5, 2017 Former Haiti coup leader Guy Philippe, who has been wanted for more than…

The record low voter participation in Haiti’s 2016 election

By Catherine Charlemagne, Haiti Liberté, Dec. 28, 2016 After polls closed on the evening of Nov. 20, 2016, all the actors involved in Haiti…

How electoral observers evaluated Haiti’s Nov. 20, 2016 election

By Catherine Charlemagne, Haiti Liberté, Dec. 21, 2016 It is an unmistakable sign. Long before the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) and…

A close-up look at southwestern Haiti, post-hurricane Matthew

By Andrew Kennedy & Tracy Kijewski-Correa , Weather Underground, Dec. 16, 2016 This post is by Dr. Andrew Kennedy and Dr. Tracy…

Human rights and alternative media delegation report on Haiti’s elections: Rampant fraud & voter suppression

By Pierre LaBossiere & Margaret Prescod, CounterPunch, Dec. 9, 2016 Lead Up to Election Day Friday, November 18th was the last day of…

The UN’s still incomplete apology to Haiti

By Kim Ives, Haiti Liberté, Dec. 7, 2016 United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, who will step down at the end of this month, made…

Breakdown of preliminary election results in Haiti

By Jake Johnston, Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR), Dec. 6, 2016 More than two weeks after Haitians went to the polls to…

To so many Africans, Fidel Castro is a hero. Here’s why

By Sean Jacobs, The Guardian, Nov. 30, 2016 If Africa is a country, then Fidel Castro is one of our national heroes. This may come as a…

Deconstructing another right-wing victory in Haiti

by Kim Ives, Haiti Liberté, Nov. 30, 2016 The largest and most important percentage to emerge from Haiti’s Nov. 20, 2016 election is that…

Mainstream press cheers rigged elections in Haiti

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery, Nov. 29, 2016 The members of Haiti’s Interim Electoral Commission (CEP) tentatively showed their faces around …

Haiti election: Live updates from Haiti Elections Blog

Today, as Haitians head to the polls, IJDH's Nicole Phillips (@BuddhistLawyer) and CEPR's Jake Johnston (@JakobJohnston), who are in Haiti …