41. A Corps Revived? Both Presidential Candidates Want to Bring Back the Haitian Army
(Matching tags: aristide, minustah, elections)

... and demonstrations in a “Fujimori-style solution”), and who openly supported the coups against Aristide, wants the Haitian army to replace MINUSTAH, which itself has committed a variety of serious rights ...

42. Washington Can’t Block Aristide’s Return or Deny Haiti’s Sovereignty - Mark Weisbrot in The Guardian
(Matching tags: un, aristide, minustah, elections, oas)

CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot has an op-ed in The Guardian (UK) today, that appears both online and in the print edition. Please note the figures listed here on political violence, as there has been ...

43. "Aristide Should Be Allowed to Return to Haiti" - Mark Weisbrot
(Matching tags: un, aristide, minustah, wikileaks)

CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot wrote in The Guardian (UK) earlier this week on the pressure the international community is putting on Haiti to accept their choices for presidential candidates. Today, he ...

44. Haitian Presidents: When In Doubt, Fly 'Em Out?
(Matching tags: un, minustah, ngos, wikileaks)

Ricardo Seitenfus, the Organization of American States' Special Representative in Haiti, seems to have lost his job after an interview in which he sharply criticized the role of MINUSTAH, and NGO’s, in ...

45. Wikileaks Reveals MINUSTAH Fatigue – Among MINUSTAH Members
(Matching tags: un, minustah, disease, elections, wikileaks)

As MINUSTAH attempts to blackmail Haiti’s political parties, candidates, and wider population into accepting the soon-to-be-announced results of November 28’s deeply flawed elections, secret State Department ...

46. Wikileaked Documents Shed More Light on U.S., Brazilian Motives Behind MINUSTAH
(Matching tags: un, minustah, wikileaks)

As we’ve described in other posts, U.S. State Department documents made available by Wikileaks demonstrate that international support for MINUSTAH is an important priority for the U.S. government. A new ...

47. Signs of International Pressure to Accept Flawed Elections
(Matching tags: minustah, elections)

... registered out of a camp population of thousands. The voting center was closed soon after it opened. Despite the chaotic scene on the ground, the head of MINUSTAH, Edmond Mulet offered his rosy view that ...

48. Wikileaked Document on MINUSTAH Describes Lack of Public Support, Political Motives for Brazilian Leadership
(Matching tags: un, minustah, wikileaks)

A newly-available State Department cable leaked by Wikileaks supports what many critics of MINUSTAH have long alleged: that Brazil maintains its leadership of the mission out of political motives – in ...

49. MINUSTAH Admits There Were Some Problems
(Matching tags: un, minustah, elections)

A full day after polls closed in Haiti, MINUSTAH issued a statement describing its account of what happened yesterday. For the first time, the organization acknowledges some of the more serious irregularities ...

50. Is it Time for MINUSTAH to Wrap it Up?
(Matching tags: un, minustah, disease, elections)

At the UN General Assembly discussion on Haiti next Friday, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, in keeping with past practice, is likely to heap praise on MINUSTAH and the elections process. As we noted ...