I used to think that democracy despite its flaws was better than any other political system but the Haitian experiment, conceived by non-Haitians and imposed by force, changed my perspectiv...
What has happened in Honduras bears an uncanny resemblance to the September 30th 1991 military coup that overthrew Haiti’s first democratically elected president, Jean Bertrand Aristide, wh...
Ordinarily the charities operating in the Third World are supervised by board of directors acting as the eyes and ears of the benefactors (institutional and individuals) that financed them...
Charity At what price (part I)
As conventional wisdom dictates; charity has a price. In Haiti’s case, however, the assessment of the benefactors falls disproportionably on the most vulnerable segment of the population: the orp...
Toward the abolition of national governments
Any proponent of Charles Darwin’s “Theory of evolution” would agree that any evolutionary process inevitably peaked. In our case, the evolutionary process seems to have peaked as it relates to be...
Another Flag Day celebration under the occupation
As per tradition, Haitian Flag Day (May 18) was celebrated grandiloquently throughout the Diaspora, and this year’s had a particular resonance among Haitians, as no less than U.S President, Barac...
A pattern of bigotry and cruelty link to a wider objective
The beheading of Carlos Nerilus, a Haitian citizen, in presence of a jubilant mob in the Santo Domingo neighborhood of Buenos Aires is a natural outcome of a campaign in the Dominican Republic med...
Almost two years ago, when a French reporter started an interview with Iran’s Amadinejad with this observation: “Judging by the way you dress in public, you are an unconventional leader…,I ...
The long-delayed election for one-third of the Haitian Senate was finally held on April 19 amid fears of anticipated widespread violence that did not materialize, except for a few skirmishe...
Since its founding on January 1 1804, Haiti’s unalienable right to co-exist peacefully with other nations and prosper has been continuously under attack by the great powers. The latest vent...
Naiveté is indisputably expensive, whether one thinks of it as a virtue or a mental weakness. On December 5th 1492, a flotilla of Spaniard sailors arrived in Haiti and was welcomed not with appr...
As long as the international community’s patronizing approach to solving Haiti’s problems remains attune on the effects rather than the causes, Haitians should expect more NGOs, more peddlers of...
It dawned on me that one of the reasons why democracy, which emphasizes compromises and tolerance of opposite views, could never work in Haiti is because absolutism is an integral part ...
A year after the unguarded but truthful statement of Hedi Annabi, the U.N commissioner in charge of the Security Council mandated occupation of Haiti, affirming that the U.N does not have a...
Over a thousand kidnappings and more than 8000 murders last year alone; some of the victims decapitated while others buried in shallow graves and doused with acid. One would think of Haiti...
As it is becoming evident that neo-liberalism cannot survive in its present form, should Haiti stick to the prescriptions of the IMF/ World Bank/George Soros ensemble, or declare an econ...