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...Michele Wucker Copyright © 2004 World Policy Institute 2004 Michele Wucker is a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute and the author of Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola. Haiti: So Many Missteps Michele Wucker...

...Clancy Nolan © 2011 World Policy Institute 2011 World Policy Institute P ort-au-prince —When the earthquake struck Haiti last January, a lanky 26-year-old woman, who asked to be called Rolonda, gathered her belongings and moved with her mother, her brother and her five-year-old daughter...

... dispute have several times any member-state. Over the past decade, the erupted over the past half-century. A dura­ OAS has come to the defense of democracy ble peace will require the emergence of in­ when it was threatened in Peru, Guatemala, clusive regional mechanisms to promote Haiti...

... for overseeing the intervention Legation, cut into six pieces and and occupation by U.S. Marines of Haiti in thrown to the mob. Here again we 1915 and of the Dominican Republic a year cleaned house, restored order, built later. Indeed, as Democratic nominee for public works and put government oper­...

...” tero’s Prospects" (XXI:2) (XXI: 1) Wrigley, Linda; "In America's Name" (XXI:1) Marber, Peter; "Globalization and Its Contents” (XXI:4) Wucker, Michele; “Haiti: So Many Missteps" (XXI: 1) Mermin, Jonathan; “The Media’s...

...Les Stone Les Stone, an award-winning photojournalist, has chronicled conflict and disaster around the world, including in Haiti, Afghanistan, Iraq, Panama, Cambodia, and Liberia. © World Policy Institute 2011 2011 World Policy Institute ...

... 10.8% 11.7% 12.7% 13.2% 13.8% 0% 1.5% 5.8% 6.1% 0 HAITI INDIA JAPAN BRAZIL RUSSIA CHINA KUWAIT NIGERIA...

... of organizations thinking about how technology can stimulate humanitarian aid recipients. Founded in 2007 to support traditional libraries in the developing world and in France, where it is headquartered, the group became involved in disaster relief after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. With funding from UNICEF...

.... And in Bos­ were kept at a level that was unrealistically nia, Haiti, Somalia, and Kosovo, Washing­ low, given the global range of America’s ton undertook to help create or recreate sta­ military commitments. Just as significantly, ble, democratic polities, through military Clinton also proved...

... in the eastern Mediterranean, where Cyprus—still divided into two tense halves—struggles to knit itself back together. Clancy Nolan reports from Port-au-Prince, where a rape epidemic has become one of the most troubling aftershocks of the earthquake that stuck Haiti last year. Ashwin Parulkar examines...

... ruler of his people in four centuries. For our Portfolio, we travel to Haiti to examine a little-appreciated consequence of the catastrophic earthquake that killed 316,000 and left over a million homeless. Les Stone documents how the power of Vodou has helped Haitians rebuild their nation...

... Wucker In the late nineteenth century, wealthy for over 29 percent of Nicaragua’s GDP. In British families exiled their wayward second Haiti and Jamaica, remittances generate sons to far-off colonies with the promise of a more revenues than does foreign trade. In monthly allowance. In return...

... of the country threatens to embroil the United States in a counterinsurgency operation in the guise of fighting a drug war. In Haiti, which saw an American military intervention to restore a democratically elected president in 1994, political assassinations on that tragic island continue and politi­...

... Belgian Congo, South Vietnam, the Dominican Republic, Indonesia, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Liberia, Cyprus, and— as we too keenly now realize— in Afghanistan, where a Soviet-supported regime change in Kabul in 1978-79 prompted covert American aid to a Pakistan-directed uprising that culminated...

... administration. Gore elder entered Congress in January 1939, and has been part of an administration that has he was a big backer of the New Deal and reluctantly pursued military intervention Hull, who was battling against isolationism. abroad, in Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Iraq, Gore never lost his...

... what the average Haitian earns. although New York City in 1968 and Chi­ But in desperately poor Haiti, émigrés often cago in 1988 approved voting rights for im­ find themselves viewed with suspicion out migrant parents in school board elections. of a cultural belief that one person’s success...

... free,” and The Strange Persistence of Latin American Democracy 31 4 “not free” countries. By contrast, today The new democratic era has also wit­ this region has 23 “free,” 10 “partly free,” nessed the decentralization of political au­ and 2 (Cuba and Haiti...

..., the to be imperialists with good intentions, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, benevolent hegemon who is prepared to Grenada, and Panama. But apart from the wage preventive wars, or launch preemptive Korean and Vietnam Wars, we have been strikes at any presumed enemy. reluctant to use military force...

... is the second poorest country in the Western hemisphere after Haiti. Its public policies are guided by “Christian and socialist ideals,” says President Daniel Ortega. This has important implications when it comes to sensitive social issues. “There is no division between religion-party-state-family in Nicaragua...