News Haiti Politics: Haiti's President Defends Choice for Prime Minister
Renan Toussaint contributed to this report from in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. WASHINGTON/PORT-AU-PRINCE — Haitian President Jovenel Moise defended his choice for prime minister Wednesday, following complaints that Fritz-William Michel is a virtual unknown who should not have been named. Opposition lawmakers say Michel has close ties to Deputy Gary Bodeau, president of the Chamber of Deputies, and that he was not chosen by consensus. "Mr.
News Haiti Politics: Book Review: There Is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince by Greg Beckett
Greg Beckett’s richly detailed, decade-long ethnography of Haiti similarly traces the way in which Haiti exceeds political categories, but here the focus is not on the thinkability of Haitian politics ...
News Haiti Politics: US Can Help Ensure Haiti’s Citizens Have a Real Future
is not part of the corrupt underbelly of Haitian politics. He is a man highly motivated to do the right thing for his country; and in so doing, continue friendships and alliances that benefit his ...
News Haiti Politics: Joy, Pride Replace Anger in Haiti’s Streets After National Soccer Team Advances to Gold Cup Semifinals
Matiado Vilme in Petionville, Junior Racine in St. Marc, Hernst Eliscar in Les Cayes, Jaudelet Junior Saint-Vil in Fort Liberte, Yvan Manuel in Cap Haitien and Jacquelin Belizaire in Miami contributed to this report "WASHINGTON / PETIONVILLE, ST.
News Haiti Politics: Security Council approves 'historic' political Haiti mission, ending UN peacekeeping role in the country
(MENAFN - Caribbean News Now) Miragoane, October 30, 2018: Female members of the Bangladeshi Formed Police Units greet Helen La Lime, the UN special representative in Haiti and head of MINUJUSTH ...
News Haiti Politics: UN votes to establish political mission in Haiti
The U.N. Security Council approved a resolution Tuesday establishing a political mission in Haiti starting Oct. 16 that will officially replace all U.N. peacekeeping activities in the Western Hemisphere's poorest country.
News Haiti Politics: Haiti police on La Saline massacre: ‘Even young children were not spared’
Disfranchised young men and women in fragile Haiti communities, where socioeconomic opportunities and access to basic services are limited, have always represented easy recruits for gangs and ...
News Haiti Politics: The Other Ruined Cathedral of Notre Dame—in Haiti
It’s played a different kind of political role at times. AW: In the 1980s, when liberation theology was so important, it was a place where people who believed in that kind of church would go to ...
News Haiti Politics: Haiti canceled Carnival. But these artists are making it up at the Haitian Compas Festival in Miami
“Politics always interfere just at the moment when the country begins to have life, and we artists are always the first ones who suffer,” said Joseph “Ti-Joe” Zenny, leader of the Haiti-based group ...
News Haiti Politics: The Sea Is Not Anonymous: On Jeffrey S. Kahn’s “Islands of Sovereignty: Haitian Migration and the Borders of Empire”
The category of “political” would extend to Cubans on a raft or a Lithuanian defector, but not Haitians because Haiti showed an “openness to ‘free’ markets and foreign capital ...
