Showing articles 1 - 20 of 397 (sorted by date).
| 1 |  | 2011-08-15: Comment by James Morrell, project director |  |
| Now come the Economist and Washington Post editorialists contending that a legitimately-elected president must yield to a fraudulently-elected parliament. | Rating: 3 |
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| 2 |  | 2011-01-20: U.S. Support Depends on Respect of Will of Haitian Voters by Amb. Susan E. Rice | |
| Sustained support from the international community, including the United States, requires a credible process that represents the will of the Haitian people, as expressed by their votes. | Rating: 3 |
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| 3 |  | 2010-08-26: Shrugging Off Haitian Government Ineffectiveness by Cheryl Mills, chief U.S. adviser on Haiti, on ABC News | |
| Haitian government has always delivered at low level. Twenty-eight of 29 ministries collapsed in the quake so it's not surprising that the government is not in evidence. We do need to sit with them regarding holdup of aid in the port. | Rating: 1 |
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| 4 |  | 2010-08-12: International Reducing Us To Lowest Common Denominator by Robert Bénodin, Radio Classique Inter |  |
| Rebirth of Haiti depends on competence of power-holders, their plan of government, and international aid and good faith. Instead the international reduces us to the lowest common denominator, substituting popularity for qualification. | Rating: 5 |
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| 5 |  | 2010-06-25: Rebuilding Has Stalled by Senate Foreign Relations Committee | |
| Paralysis in decision-making leaves hundreds of thousands in camps. Significant customs delays
blocking essential building material. There must also be a legitimate and democratically-elected government. | Rating: 3 |
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| 6 |  | 2010-04-21: Best If Troops Stayed a Little Longer by James Morrell, director of the project, on ABC News | |
| In general we are glad to see U.S. troops evacuate any Latin American country. But in Haiti, they have saved countless lives and they stave off the anarchy that is likely to come from rampant misgovernance and the U.S. policies that prolong it. | Rating: 3 |
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| 7 | | 2010-02-08: Internationals Want Préval, Haitians Do Not by Robert Benodin, Radio Classique Inter | |
| The international community, intent on maintaining him in power to avoid chaos, could provoke the opposite effect. His presence is exacerbating discontent. | Rating: 3 |
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| 8 |  | 2010-01-28: A General Staff Headed by U.S. or France Needed by Michel Soukar et al. in Le Nouvelliste | |
| The U.S. or France should head up a general staff with Haitians with authority, a sort of committee of public safety to restore Haitians' self-confidence and put them to work. Both the Haitian government and the U.N. mission have failed. | Rating: 3 |
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| 9 |  | 2010-01-23: Tax Deductions for Remittances by Stanley Lucas | |
| Congress should consider tax deductions for Haitian-Americans sending money back. Allowing deductions for up to $10,000 in remittances over the next five years would get a lot more of them contributing to recovery. | Rating: 5 |
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| 10 |  | 2010-01-23: Disaster Could Extend U.N. Mandate by Prof. Henry F. Carey, Georgia State Univ., in Columbia Journalism Review | |
| The catastrophe could have one benefit: extending MINUSTAH’s mandate beyond a decade. That should help sustain Haiti’s democratic transition and extend the amount and duration of foreign aid. | Rating: 5 |
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| 11 |  | 2009-12-07: The Internationals Intend To Make Fools of the Haitians by Leslie Péan, in Alterpresse | |
| Against the international community's intention to reduce Haiti and the Haitians to the status of fools, even Préval's sins look like peccadillos. | Rating: 5 |
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| 12 | | 2009-12-03: Internationals Put Préval in Power and Are Keeping Him There by Robert Benodin, Radio Classique Inter | |
| If you think they will be upset when Préval grabs for his third term, you underestimate their attachment to the status quo. Only the Haitian people with their backs to the wall can improve their situation. | Rating: 5 |
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| 13 |  | 2009-10-07: Lest We Forget by Col. John Henry Russell | |
| "No people with any spirit can view the presence of troops of another nation in any light than as a heavy blow to their pride." American High Commissioner to Haiti, 1922-30. | Rating: 3 |
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| 14 |  | 2009-09-14: Haitian Government Is Uncorrupt by Center for American Progress | |
| The experts from this thinktank after a one-week visit find the government neither corrupt nor predatory and meritng more millions of U.S. taxpayers' dollars. | Rating: 1 |
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| 15 |  | 2009-08-31: U.S. Policy Out of Sync With Haitian Reality by James Morrell, Haiti Democracy Project | |
| Powerpoint Presentation prepared as a document for the Patriotic Meeting in Santo Domingo to supplement the author's remarks to conference on August 29. | Rating: 5 |
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| 16 | | 2009-07-17: Clinton Is Substituting for the Haitian Government by Robert Benodin, Radio Classique Inter | |
| No Haitian government for years has been capable of attracting investment. In this void, and to head off the unrest that will come if there is no progress, Clinton has assumed this responsibility for the Haitian government. | Rating: 3 |
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| 17 |  | 2009-03-12: Hold Off on Deportations by the Haitian League | |
| A delegation of this leading diaspora organization visited Washington calling for a freezing of deportations and a renewed focus on investment in Haiti. | Rating: 3 |
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| 18 | | 2009-03-02: Will U.S. Let Itself Be Rolled by Préval? by Robert Benodin, Radio Classique Inter | |
| Duvalier was able to get U.S. support for his life-presidency by dangling the threat of communism. With the Berlin Wall long fallen, will Obama let himself be played like that? | Rating: 3 |
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| 19 |  | 2009-02-21: One Good First Deserves Another by webmaster | |
| World's first black republic, America's first black president. The Haiti Democracy Project was not going to miss this historic event! | Rating: 5 |
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| 20 |  | 2009-02-21: Inaugural Ball by webmaster | |
| The Haiti Democracy Project joined the Haitians-for-Obama ball at the Washington Court Hotel. | Rating: 5 |
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