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The topic for today is Haiti’s current socio-political situation. It’s a very complicated situation, and there are many things we don’t know, and can’t know. With such limited information and contradictory information in the media, the simplest thing to do is to grab onto an interpretation of the situation that falls into a narrative we can all relate to – that there are “good guys” and “bad guys” and that things will get better when the good guys win. The one thing I’m sure of in this situation is that there are no “good guys”. Corruption is virtually universal amongst Haiti’s leaders, and political struggles are largely about how the spoils are to be divided among them.

The president:

Jovenel Moise was elected a few years ago. He is the chosen successor of the previous president, Michel Martelly. Martelly may or may not have known Moise before picking him as his successor to run the Tet Kale (bald head) political party. In Haiti, the president can serve two, five year terms but not consecutively, so one strategy is to have a close associate serve a term in between your two terms as a seat-warmer of sorts. There is little more than speculation about the relationship between these two presidents. I have heard that they have almost no contact, and I have also heard that th

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The international community and the Preval administration recently forgot the anniversary of the brutal assassination of Father Jean-Marie Vincent in Haiti. Fifteen years ago he was felled in a hail of bullets in front of his rectory at Montfortain in the Port au Prince neighborhood of Christ-Roi.

Father Jean-Marie Vincent (Photo courtesy of HIP)

The international community and the Preval administration recently forgot the anniversary of the brutal assassination of Father Jean-Marie Vincent in Haiti, contributing to the perception of two distinct Haitian realities. On one hand there exists the Haiti of the wealthy elite, the UN, foreign profiteers, NGOs, diplomats, and their clients in the Preval government. On the other hand there is the Haiti of the majority of the poor who are trapped in the grind of constant poverty with an experience, history and memory uniquely their own. 

 

Haiti’s poor remembered the anniversary of the assassination of Father Jean-Marie Vincent on August 28 in small solemn ceremonies at his grave site in Port au Prince and in the small town of Jean Rabel in northwest Haiti where he founded a peasant rights organization Tet Kole Ti Peyizan. They remembered him for challenging Haiti’s wealthy elite by starting literacy

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