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  • Fair Elections in Haiti

    Fair Elections in Haiti

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    Jean Saint-Vil
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    All indicators suggest a fiasco for the scheduled fall elections in Haiti. The International Crisis Group (ICG) observed that 18 months after former President Jean Bertrand Aristide was forced out of the country, Haiti remains insecure and volatile. On the part of much of the population ICG saw “disenchantment, apathy and ignorance about the electoral…

  • Canada Owes Haiti More Than Apology

    Canada Owes Haiti More Than Apology

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    Jean Saint-Vil
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    Please read and sign the Letter @ www.apologytohaiti.ca   (I already did!) As we approach the 10th anniversary of the February 29, 2004 Coup d’Etat that toppled Haiti’s democratically-elected president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, hundreds of Canadians, across the country, have signed a letter of apology to Haiti for the role they say Canada played in the violent…