1. OAS to Send Election Mission to Haiti - But Will They Meet With Fanmi Lavalas and Other Sidelined Parties?
(Matching tags: elections, fanmi lavalas)

The Organization of American States (OAS) announced that they will be sending election observers to prepare and monitor elections in Haiti. Legislative elections had been planned for February, however ...

2. Haiti Resists US Pressure, Announces Aristide Can Return
(Matching tags: aristide, elections, fanmi lavalas, wikileaks)

CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot writes in The Guardian (UK) today: It didn’t get much attention in the media, but U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did something quite surprising on Sunday. After ...

3. "Haiti: The Great Fear" - Mark Weisbrot in The Sun Sentinel
(Matching tags: aid distribution, shelter, doctors without borders, tarps, tents, elections, fanmi lavalas)

CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot writes in Ft. Lauderdale's Sun Sentinel today: The controversy over the return of the infamous dictator, Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, to Haiti, is in many ways a ...

4. "Illegitimate Election Is a Setback for Haiti" - Mark Weisbrot in The Guardian
(Matching tags: elections, fanmi lavalas)

... country’s largest political party from participating – along with other parties. Fanmi Lavalas is the party of Haiti’s most popular political leader, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. It has won every election that ...

5. USAID/OTI's Politicized, Problematic Cash-for-Work Programs
(Matching tags: contractors, usaid, aristide, chemonics, dai, fanmi lavalas)

... support for Fanmi Lavalas and protests against the undemocratic government (and, we would add, the rampant human rights abuses it was perpetrating). According to the USAID IG report, while the contractors ...

6. A Tale of Two Elections
(Matching tags: un, minustah, disease, elections, fanmi lavalas)

HRRW's own Dan Beeton writes in today's Los Angeles Times: Haiti is scheduled to hold elections on Nov. 28, and nothing — neither the cholera outbreak that has killed more than 1,000 people nor the fact ...

7. Despite Everything, Haitian Government Continues to Move Ahead With Flawed Elections
(Matching tags: un, minustah, disease, elections, fanmi lavalas)

... 14 political parties from the ballot, including the most popular, Fanmi Lavalas. Many Haitians and observers are also concerned about voter access in the wake of the January quake that displaced over a ...

8. A Clarification (of sorts) from the Miami Herald on Haiti’s Elections
(Matching tags: elections, fanmi lavalas)

... Haitians Living Abroad Leslie Voltaire, and Yves Cristallin, Fanmi Lavalas co-founder and former Préval minister of Social Affairs. For anyone who’s been following the controversy around the Provisional ...

9. State Department Dumbfounded by Congressional Concerns Over Haiti's Selection Elections
(Matching tags: elections, fanmi lavalas)

The arbitrary exclusion of 14 political parties from Haiti’s November 28 elections is a growing scandal, with a letter from 45 members of Congress sent to Secretary of State Clinton last week stating that ...

10. Congress Takes Action for Free and Fair Elections in Haiti
(Matching tags: elections, fanmi lavalas)

... if the people currently in power don't like them, including Haiti's largest political party, the Fanmi Lavalas party of deposed and exiled former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. It is a telling fact ...