Amid escalating gang violence, new leader takes over Haiti’s rocky transitional council
A U.S. educated economist and former head of Haiti’s Central Bank assumed the presidency of the country’s embattled ...
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Haiti’s shaky transition needs saving, say political leaders. They want CARICOM to intervene
In other words, to put Fanmi Lavalas and its allies back in power. The leaders say that at a time when thousands of citizens have been driven out of their neighborhoods just in the month of ...
Fritz Alphonse Jean becomes new president of Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council
Fritz Alphonse Jean, representative of the Montana Accord, was officially sworn in as president of Haiti’s Transitional ...
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Police and government passivity in the face of intimidation and violence by supporters of the Fanmi Lavalas party raised serious human rights concerns. Fanmi Lavalas, the party of former president ...
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some 300 women belonging to a coalition of seven leading women's organizations were harassed by male supporters of Fanmi Lavalas, apparently because they did not accuse opposition political ...