Dean Baker
TPMCafé, November 28, 2010

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

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

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

Dean Baker
International Relations and Security Network, November 25, 2010

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

The UN General Assembly is set to have a post-elections discussion on Haiti on December 3. No doubt the UN will again urge the international community to contribute to its emergency fund to fight cholera – an appeal that has largely fallen on deaf ears. A

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

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

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.

Dan BeetonThe Los Angeles Times, November 23, 2010

The UN Office of the Special Envoy to Haiti has released updated data regarding the status of pledges made by donor countries in New York last March. As a cholera epidemic continues to spread, now claiming at least 1300 lives, the international community

Dean Baker
Truthout, November 22, 2010

Alexander MainCEPR Blog, 19 de noviembre, 2010En Inglés

Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, November 22, 2010