Reality in Writing : Caribbean Political Economy

Haiti's foreign-orchestrated election hands power to neo-Duvalierist Michel Martelly Rabble.ca By Roger Annis and Kevin Edmonds April 14, 2011 Original Link: http://rabble.ca/news/2011/04/haiti%E2%80%99s-foreign-orchestrated-election-hands-power-neo-duvalierist-michel-martelly Michel Martelly is closely associated with the extreme right in Haiti that twice overthrew elected government ( in 1991 and 2004 ). He has vowed to reconstitute the notorious Armed Forces of Haiti, disbanded in 1995 due to its record of massive human rights violations (elements of which are in training and waiting for the call ). He says that Haiti's economic and social development depends on convincing more foreign investors to set up shop. He told CBC Radio's The Current on April 7 that Haiti has been "going in the wrong direction for the last 25 years," a ref

The Rejection of Dependency: Popular Mobilization in Haiti Basicsnews.ca original link: http://basicsnews.ca/?p=2931 April 4, 2011 By: Kevin Edmonds The people of Haiti continue to struggle against rigged elections, systemic human rights abuses, foreign occupation and an NGO led development model which has fallen flat in regards to reconstruction and relief efforts. At the same time there has been many signs of popular mobilization articulating that the Haitian people are fed up and will not stand idly by with the international community’s attempt to install a puppet government and continue a deeply flawed and self serving reconstruction program. The March 20th presidential elections were an attempt by the international community to give some legitimacy to an electoral process that had been widely discredited and tarnished by massive fraud and the exclusion of 15 political parties. The election, popularly referred to as a selection, had been between two right wing candidates attempting