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Haiti: Not Back, Not Better
Photo by: Gonmi | Flickr | Creative Commons License The third anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Haiti has passed with no sign of either serious reconstruction or progress toward improving...
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Haiti: Crisis as Usual
By CLALS Staff World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim and Haitian President Michel Martelly / Photo credit: World Bank Photo Collection / Foter / CC-BY-NC-ND Half way through his term, President...
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Caribbean Integration: Necessary but Elusive
By Victor Bulmer-Thomas* #83951044 / gettyimages.com The dream of Caribbean solidarity has never been in greater peril. Norman Girvan, who died on April 9, was committed to the cause of Caribbean...
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Preparing the West Indies for the Demise of PetroCaribe
By Thomas Andrew O’Keefe* ariwriter / Flickr / Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) The English-speaking Caribbean nations – whose heavy dependence on...
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Haiti: Plus ça change …
By Fulton Armstrong Photo credit: a-birdie and Free Grunge Textures / Flickr / CC BY Haiti buried Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier last week, but his and his father’s ghosts continue to haunt Haitian...
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Haiti: Another Crisis on the Anniversary of a Crisis
By Emma Fawcett* Cinco anos depois do terremoto que devastou o Haiti / Agência Brasil Fotografias / Flickr / CC BY-NC 2.0 Haiti recently marked the five-year anniversary of the devastating 2010...
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Haiti: Yet More Lost Opportunity
By Emma Fawcett* Photo Credit: Nacho Fradejas Garcia / Flickr / Creative Commons Six months into Haiti’s most recent political crisis, popular uncertainty and frustration are palpable – amid...
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Dominican Republic: Heavy-handed Migration Policies
By Emma Fawcett* Haitian sugarcane collectors in Dominican Republic. Photo Credit: El Marto / Flickr / Creative Commons The government of the Dominican Republic has not yet begun massive forced...
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Haiti and Dominican Republic: No Détente in Sight
By Emma Fawcett* Resettlement camp at Corail Cesselesse, Haiti Photo Credit: Oxfam International / Flickr / Creative Commons Tensions stemming from the Dominican Republic’s forced repatriation of...
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Haiti: Elections Better than Expected?
By Emma Fawcett* Photo Credit: Haiti Innovation / Flickr / Creative Commons Security and logistics for Haiti’s October 25 elections went much better than expected, but the results – preliminarily...
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Haiti: Postponed Elections, Ever-Deepening Crisis
By Emma Fawcett* Photo Credit: mackendy mentor, Kurious, and KeshtoKar (modified) / YouTube, Pixabay, and Wikimedia Commons / Licensed for noncommercial reuse Postponement of Haiti’s protracted...
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Haiti: Crisis Upon Crisis
By Fulton Armstrong OAS Secretary General Almagro visits Haiti. Photo Credit: OAS / Flickr / Creative Commons Haiti is stumbling, again, from one crisis into another, but the timing of this ongoing...
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Zika Overshadows Haiti’s Continuing Cholera Epidemic
By Emma Fawcett * Inside a cholera treatment center in Haiti. Photo Credit: CDC Global / Flickr / Creative Commons As the number of Zika victims rises into the tens of thousands and dominates the...
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Haiti: Hurricane Matthew’s Devastating Impact
By Emma Fawcett* A citizen of Beaumont, Haiti unloads hurricane relief supplies from USAID on October 13, 2016. / U.S. Air Force / Photo by Tech. Sgt. Russ Scalf / Flickr / Creative Commons Hurricane...
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2017: Happy New Year in Latin America?
By Eric Hershberg and Fulton Armstrong Brazilian President Michel Temer surrounded by members of his party in mid-2016. His government will continue to face questions of legitimacy in 2017. / Valter...
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Haiti’s Electoral Crisis Finally Concludes, for Now
By Emma Fawcett* Newly inaugurated Haitian President Jovenel Moïse speaks with the Dominican press. / Karla Sepúlveda / Presidencia República Dominicana / Flickr / Creative Commons Haitian President...
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Haiti: Yet More Challenges Ahead for President Moïse
By Emma Fawcett* A group of peacekeepers from the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) prepare for departure from the island. / UN Photo / Isaac Billy / Flickr / Creative Commons Haiti’s new...
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Haiti: Increasingly Alone
By Fulton Armstrong A residential neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. / UNICEF Canada / Flickr / Creative Commons Haiti’s international backers are increasingly leaving the impoverished Caribbean...
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Haiti: Building Democratic Institutions?
By Fulton Armstrong Riots in Haiti, February 2019 / AP/ Wiki Images / Creative Commons Haitian President Jovenel Moïse is trying to end a months-long political crisis by dumping his Prime Minister, but...
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Haiti: Is Anyone Listening?
By Fulton Armstrong Protesters take to the streets in 2018 over the government’s misuse of funds from PetroCaribe– once again the subject of public anger/ Rony D’Haiti/ Wikimedia Commons/...
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