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	Politics of Haiti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Politics of Haiti takes place in a framework of a presidential republic, whereby the President of Haiti is both head of state and head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.
		Haiti is officially a presidential republic, although it is often claimed to be authoritarian in practice.
		The bicameral National Assembly of Haiti (Assemblée Nationale) consists of the Chamber of Deputies (Chambre des Députés) and the Senate (Sénat).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Haiti (1096 words)

	Haiti (06/06)
		Although Haiti actively assisted the independence movements of many Latin American countries, the independent nation of former slaves was excluded from the hemisphere's first regional meeting of independent nations, in Panama in 1826, and did not receive U.S. diplomatic recognition until 1862.
		When these efforts were rebuffed, Haiti's main bilateral donors announced the end of "business as usual." They moved to re-channel their assistance away from the government and announced they would not support or send observers to the November elections.
		Haiti is one of the original members of the United Nations and several of its specialized and related agencies, as well as a member of the Organization of American States (OAS).
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/1982.htm (5837 words)

	Embassy of Haiti in Washington D.C.- US Senate: More Assistance for Haiti
		Senator Bill Nelson of Florida expressed his deep concern for what he described as a harsh and discriminatory U.S. immigration policy that seems to differentiate treatment of Haitian illegal immigrants compared to those of other nationalities.
		Senator Nelson also expressed his frustration with U.S. policy regarding the disbursement, or lack thereof, of humanitarian and development loans from the international financial institutions designated for Haiti.
		Senator Dodd was explicit in his criticism of U.S. policy and the role of the OAS Special Mission to Haiti and called on both institutions to seriously engage all parties to find a solution to the political crisis.
	www.haiti.org /Whatsnew/us_senate_aid.htm (316 words)

	Reporters sans frontières - Haïti
		In a letter to Senate Speaker Yvon Neptune, RSF denounced the Senate Commission’s refusal to lift Dany Toussaint’s parliamentary immunity.
		"The Senate is merely protecting one of its own, a true baron of the regime, and demonstrating its contempt for the most basic justice," Ménard concluded.
		Judge Gassant had issued the request for the lifting of the senator’s immunity when he was in charge of the investigation.
	www.rsf.org /article.php3?id_article=314 (511 words)

	Fact-esque: Haiti
		Ayititoma, a blogger who returned to Haiti to "make a difference." Her first and only post so far is an open letter to Haiti inspired by the murder of Lucienne Estime, the elderly widow of Haiti's first fl president.
		Haiti's impoverished majority knows full well the brutal reality of international efforts at "promoting democracy." This program has resulted in the overthrow of the same President twice, and is in the midst of trying to once again undermine the popular will by tampering with their most recent vote.
		Haiti's ID cards are being manufactured and digitized out of country, by the Mexican branch of Digimarc, an Oregon-based company that is on the International Foundation for Elections Systems list of suppliers.
	casadelogo.typepad.com /factesque/haiti/index.html (15106 words)

	Helena Hill Weed, Hearing the Truth About Haiti
		After American commercial investments began in Haiti in 1910, the Germans who had heretofore controlled 95 percent of the commercial life, fearing American competition, began to tell the Haitians to beware of the Americans, that they were coming to steal their land and reenslave them.
		Haiti was ready, willing, and anxious to restore constitutional government but was not permitted to do so by the American forces until a candidate for President had been found who would pledge himself in advance to the ratification of a treaty with the United States embodying any demands that the United States might make.
		It was this arbitrary act of the American forces which caused Haiti to pass the interest payments on her foreign debt for the first time in her history.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/43a/384.html (2330 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Senate chairman arrested in Haiti
		Police have arrested Haiti's Senate president and two other politicians, all of them supporters of former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
		Senate President Yvon Fuille said his arrest was illegal because it violated his immunity.
		Stranded Haiti family's long wait for hurricane floods to recede
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/3710904.stm (454 words)

	Caribbean Net News: Haiti
		PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters): A gang leader in Haiti's largest slum said on Friday that he and others would be willing to lay down their arms as part of a broader disarmament process in the impoverished and violent Caribbean nation.
		PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: Giant posters of candidates and controversial commercials disseminated throughout the media by the Provisional Electoral Council (PEC) are the components of the current, dull electoral atmosphere in Haiti.
		CITE SOLEIL, Haiti (UPI): "Gunfire has been the soundtrack of Cite Soleil since I arrived," said Loris De Filippi, head of mission for Medicins Sans Frontiers, the international medical relief agency which operates two facilities in the heart of what is arguably the worst slum in the Americas.
	www.caribbeannetnews.com /haiti/haiti.htm (3274 words)

	Haiti Reborn - Let Haiti Live (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The quality of life in Haiti is increasingly desperate – today for every 20,000 Haitians there is only one physician and the HIV infection rate has climbed to 6%.
		Haiti’s government was democratically elected and is internationally recognized.
		Whereas the poor are “collateral damage” of many embargoes, they are the direct target of this policy: the donor countries are withholding promised healthcare, education and clean water because the Haitian majority’s elected leaders are trying to implement the progressive economic policies they campaigned on.
	www.quixote.org /hr/campaigns/lhl/action-kit.php (439 words)

	Haiti News : Indybay
		On May 24th, Haiti's Senate ratified Alexis and on May 30th he was approved by Haiti's Deputies Chamber.
		Haiti’s last elections, in November 2000, were held in relative security, with broad public participation and a clear popular choice.
		Haiti's election dates have now been reset for the fourth time in the last five months.
	www.indybay.org /international/haiti (4623 words)

	Haiti Progres - Haitian Weekly - Jounal Ayisyen - Journal Haïtien
		The main protagonist of the Times piece is former U.S. Ambassador to Haiti Brian Dean Curran, a Clinton appointee who complains that the Bush administration worked "to undermine the reconciliation process after disputed 2000 Senate elections threw Haiti into a violent political crisis," the Times reported.
		In the face of mounting international pressure, on Jan. 29 Haitian de facto authorities allowed political prisoner Father Gérard Jean-Juste to provisionally leave his jail cell and fly to Miami to obtain medical treatment for recently contracted pneumonia as well as leukemia, with which he was diagnosed almost two months ago (see Haïti Progrès, Vol.
		Accompanied from Haiti by one of his North American lawyers, Bill Quigley, Jean-Juste flew on American Airlines to Miami where he was met at the airport by about 25 people, including leaders from Veye Yo, the Miami-based popular organization he helped found in the 1980s when he directed the Haitian Refugee Center.
	www.haitiprogres.com /eng02-01.html (1620 words)

	Haiti News
		Haiti and the insanity of ‘official’ denial 5/26/2004 SF Bay View: "As many as nine peaceful demonstrators were killed in Haiti on May 18, as tens of thousands of people took to the streets despite the risk - and reality - of violent repression by international forces and a militarized Haitian police force.
		Haiti Update IX: The Justice of the Strong 4/29/2004 Africana: "The founder of the notorious death squad known as the Revolutionary Front for Haitian Advancement and Progress (FRAPH) has been convicted in abstentia and sentenced to life in jail Chamblain's surrender occurred at the same moment a conference of international donors met in the capital.
		Haiti: Armed groups still active 4/8/2004 Amnesty International: "At the end of a 15-day mission to Haiti, Amnesty International is deeply concerned for the security of the civilian population.
	www.afrocubaweb.com /news/haitinews.htm (11062 words)

	InterAction.org \| Policy and Legislative Advocacy
		After a day of behind the scenes of negotiations, the Senate finally reached agreement to begin floor debate of the FY 2005 Foreign Operations bill.
		The Senate passed the bill by voice vote late the night of September 23.
		These are an amendment offered by Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT) that provides $10 million in assistance to Haiti through the Organization of American States and an amendment that inserted a Sense of the Senate that Haiti needs an interim government.
	www.interaction.org /advocacy/For_Op_9-24-04.html (227 words)

	This Week in Haiti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		On Dec. 15, Haiti's Senate unexpectedly voted to accept Alexis' technical qualifications for the post despite charges that he mismanaged or embezzled funds as Education Minister.
		The OPL controls about 12 of those Senate votes, and its conditions for their delivery are the following: the OPL wants six of the fifteen cabinet ministries (Agriculture, Public Works, Environment, Interior or Justice, Commerce and Industry, and Social Affairs or Culture) and 35 of the 85 "Directeur Generale" posts in the public administration.
		The Senators illegally voted themselves an indefinite extension last month, but much of Haiti is outraged at the move and mass demonstrations for next month -- above all Jan. 11 -- are brewing all over Haiti.
	www.zmag.org /Bulletins/phai1230.htm (1341 words)

	Haiti Democracy Project
		The Senate also unanimously passed a strong resolution calling for the U.N. peacekeepers to stabilize the political environment to allow free and inclusive elections next year, and warned that if elections fail, Haiti could well pass from being a failed to a criminal state.
		In the preparation for their trip to Haiti, the Haiti Democracy Project provided the subcommittee with reports by the National Coalition for Haitian Rights in Haiti on the human-rights situation and other documentation.
		The Haiti Democracy Project is pleased that its inputs, although one factor among many, lent additional substance to the case for an extra $90 million appropriation and strong Senate support for peaceful elections.
	www.haitipolicy.org /content/2642.htm (347 words)

	Workers World Feb. 11, 1999: Haiti protests condemn Senate
		The wealthy class of the Haitian cities--the bourgeoisie--called a general strike in Haiti Jan. 22 to demand that Preval restore the Senate to power.
		Elius was referring to the Haitian senators whose terms ended in early January.
		They were upset that the senators were still driving government four-wheel drive automobiles, carrying parliamentary pistols and cell phones, and drinking bottled water--privileges allowed Haitian senators.
	www.workers.org /ww/1999/haiti0211.php (594 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Preval works to unite Haiti with party's wins
		PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — President-elect Rene Preval's party won at least 11 of 30 senate seats in Haiti's parliamentary runoff, according to partial results released late Monday, boosting his support as he seeks to unite the divided and impoverished country.
		David Wimhurst, a spokesman for the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti, said the turnout represented a "a big step forward" compared with past legislative races in Haiti.
		Many voters were slow to turn up at polling stations in the early hours of balloting, prompting the head EU election observer, Johan Van Hecke, to call the turnout "extremely weak" and estimate participation at no more than 15 percent.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,635202316,00.html (419 words)

	Message to the Senate Transmitting the Haiti-United States Investment Treaty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		With a view to receiving the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification, I transmit herewith the Treaty between the United States of America and the Republic of Haiti concerning the Reciprocal Encouragement and Protection of Investment, with Protocol, signed December 13, 1983, at Washington.
		This treaty is among the first six treaties to be transmitted to the Senate under the Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) program that I initiated in 1981.
		I recommend that the Senate consider this treaty as soon as possible, and give its advice and consent to ratification of the treaty, with protocol, at an early date.
	www.reagan.utexas.edu /archives/speeches/1986/32586c.htm (277 words)

	Aristide's Party Wins Haitian Senate - CBS News
		In March 1999, Preval appointed by decree a new premier and the provisional electoral council that organized the elections.
		The United States on Saturday condemned the climate of intimidation that followed Haiti's elections, saying reported arrests of prominent opposition leaders were especially troubling.
		Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the mentor of current President Rene Preval, is favored to win Haiti's presidential election at the end of the year.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2000/05/22/world/main197951.shtml (590 words)

	Reporters sans frontières - Haïti
		Jean Dominique, the head of Radio Haiti Inter, and Jean-Claude Louissaint, the station’s gatekeeper, were murdered two years ago.
		Today their killers are celebrating two years of impunity.
		But what is Haiti’s president, its senate, its justice minister, its police doing about it?
	www.rsf.org /article.php3?id_article=978 (356 words)

	Haiti News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Amaral Duclona, the most-wanted man in Haiti 3/8/2006 SF Bay View: "Amaral Duclona is Haiti's most wanted man - that is, the most wanted by the U.S.-installed de facto government.
		Haiti's child prisoners: Their hope is fading 10/26/2005 SF Bay View: "At Radio Timoun, when Aristide was president, orphaned children in Haiti ran their own radio station.
		Haiti's loan-aid deal a debt trap - Oxfam 7/22/2004 Jamaica Observer: "Too much of the US$1 billion in aid pledged to rebuild Haiti is in loans that could force the country deeper into debt and poverty, a British-based charity said yesterday."
	www.blackvoternetwork.com /haitinews.htm (10620 words)

	Dave McCurdy Collection - Box 50
		Topics include McCurdy Senate campaign, James Inhofe Senate campaign, Haiti, aviation manufacturer liability, welfare reform, Oklahoma public school funding, and vacant Air Force plant in Tulsa.
		Topics include McCurdy Senate campaign, campaign funding, Oklahoma election campaigns, term limits, Cody Graves, health care reform, National Rifle Association opposition to McCurdy, military construction in Oklahoma, and James Inhofe.
		Topics include McCurdy Senate campaign, Sam Nunn campaign appearances for McCurdy, James Inhofe Senate campaign, Charleton Heston campaign appearances for James Inhofe, Haiti, and Phil Gramm campaign appearances for James Inhofe.
	www.ou.edu /special/albertctr/archives/McCurdyinventory/mccurdy50.htm (725 words)

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