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MINUSTAH Admits There Were Some Problems
A full day after polls closed in Haiti, MINUSTAH issued a statement describing its account of what happened yesterday. For the first time, the organization acknowledges some of the more serious irregularities in the vote [Google translation]: If everyone

CEPR / November 29, 2010

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Elections in the Time of Cholera, Part IV
The following is the fourth installment of Alex Main's triplog from Haiti, click here for the first, here for the second, or here for the third:Today, elections are being held in Haiti.  The country’s electoral authority, the Provisional Electoral Council

CEPR / November 28, 2010

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Elections in the Time of Cholera, Part III
Leading up to the elections on Sunday we will be posting commentary from CEPR's Alex Main, who is in Haiti this week. The following is the third installment, click here for the first or here for the second: After a heavy dose of meetings with foreign ai

CEPR / November 27, 2010

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Elections in the Time of Cholera, Part II
Leading up to the elections on Sunday we will be posting updates and commentary from CEPR's Alex Main, who is in Haiti this week. The following is the second installment, click here for the first: Every Tuesday morning at the UN Log base representatives o

CEPR / November 26, 2010

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Is it Time for MINUSTAH to Wrap it Up?
At the UN General Assembly discussion on Haiti next Friday, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, in keeping with past practice, is likely to heap praise on MINUSTAH and the elections process. As we noted yesterday, MINUSTAH’s position on the rigged nature of

CEPR / November 24, 2010

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Elections in the Time of Cholera, Part I
CORRECTION: Please note that the last paragraph of this post originally mistakenly referred to CRS when it should have referred to the American Red Cross. We apologize for the error, and have corrected the information below.Leading up to the elections on

CEPR / November 24, 2010

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Are MINUSTAH’s Voter Progress Claims Too Good to Be True?
Bloomberg reports today: [MINUSTAH head Edmond] Mulet said 4.5 million Haitians have been registered to vote for president and for seats in the parliament, and that campaign rallies and caravans are being held without incident. He cautioned that former Ha

CEPR / November 23, 2010

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Haiti

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A Tale of Two Elections

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 that more than 1 million earthquake survivors remain homeless — seems likely to convince the Haitian government or its international backers that the vote should be postponed. It should be. Why? The electoral process is rigged. Unfortunately, the Obama administration seems happy to go along with the charade.

Earlier this month President Obama rightly condemned the bogus elections in Burma (renamed Myanmar by the military regime). He said: "The unfair electoral laws and overtly partisan Election Commission [controlled by the military regime] ensured that Burma's leading pro-democracy party, the National League for Democracy, was silenced and sidelined." And NLD party leader Aung San Suu Kyi

Now that a similarly flawed process is about to be repeated much closer to home, the Obama administration should be equally adamant in condemning it.

Jake Johnston / November 23, 2010