Word: haitien
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...jury, hacking people to death for crimes real or imagined. The omnipresent "popular organizations," self-proclaimed local leaders who act as watchdog, pressure group and enforcer of political correctness, command the masses and own the real power. "The popular organizations control this city," says Jean Robert Lalannes, a Cap Haitien radio-station director threatened with death after he criticized Aristide. "The vacuum of state authority is complete...
...streets, the President preferred to palliate those who would lose jobs rather than begin constructing a working economy. As a result, $100 million in aid has been frozen and private investment scared off. The economy has been dead in the water ever since. Says Michel Georges, a Cap Haitien businessman, with a sigh: "We're waiting for an economic program to begin...
...could scarcely blame them. When Haiti tried something like this in 1987, marauding army-backed death squads attacked voters with guns and machetes. The Cap Haitien workers knew, of course, that much had changed since then. President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was returned last October by the U.S. military after spending three years in exile. The military officers who ousted him had been driven into an exile of their own. And now a new civil society was taking root, nurtured by 6,000 U.N. peacekeepers, a host of relief groups and $1.2 billion in foreign...
Still the officials in Cap Haitien wouldn't budge, so international observers were forced to unload the ballots and wait until morning. At 5 a.m. a convoy of trucks careered through the streets in a last-minute distribution dash. The display was typical of the chaos that beset voting stations across the country. Ballot boxes turned up in the oddest places: stacked on street corners, stashed beneath poll workers' beds, tossed into ravines. But such irregularities are one thing; the gunshots, screams and sirens that have traditionally attended mass action in Haiti are another, and they were notably absent from...
...Reported by Hannah Bloch/Washington, Bernard Diederich/Port-au-Prince and Tammerlin Drummond/ Cap Haitien...