Haiti: Back to the Future?
Haiti: Back to the Future?
Five years after the earthquake, not much has changed. Under President Martelly, some fear that things have even gone backwards.
January 12, 2015, was a grim day in Haiti. Not only was it the fifth anniversary of the devastating earthquake of 2010, it was also the day that President Michel Martelly placed a major question mark over the future of Haiti’s troubled democracy. On that day, Martelly began to rule by decree while a long-simmering political crisis let the mandates of one-third of the Senate and all members of the lower house expire. The terms of another third of the Senate had already expired in January 2012. Although domestic and international pressure subsequently forced Martelly to agree to a new...
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