MADRE Associate Director, Yifat Susskind, writes about the political crisis in Haiti that erupted in mid-February, when an armed movement seeking to overthrow Haiti’s President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, went on a rampage in a dozen Haitian towns.
According to Susskind, Haiti’s opposition represents only 8 percent of the population. With no chance of winning through democratic elections, they rely instead on armed violence to foment a political crisis that will lead to the fall of the government. Whatever the outcome of the crisis in Haiti, Susskind suggests, chances are that one group of thugs will be replaced with another.
In the latter part of his article, Susskind provides insight as to why it’s so hard for us to get a clear picture of what’s happening in Haiti, and makes demands of the U.S. administration and the world community to intervene.
