A Haiti Chronicle: The Undoing of a Latent Democracy, 1999-2001

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Counselor for Public Affairs on the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince in 1999-2001, Daniel Whitman used to be haunted by the country’s people and landscapes, its nuanced language, and complex and rewarding friendships.

His friends included neighbors, art gallery owners, gas station attendants – but mostly Haiti’s intrepid journalists and broadcasters. Unlike others, Whitman believed that the three elections of 2000 could advance Haiti’s democracy and its development from the bottom rung as poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. He used to be incorrect; they didn’t. Local supremacists killed, torched and rushed to fraud even as foreigners forgave and even blessed the electoral debacles without posing the resistance even of meaningful public comment.

However, seeds also germinated to make Haiti at some point fit for its inventive, humor-loving and too ceaselessly betrayed people. The effort used to be kept alive in large part by Haiti’s gritty journalists, going into hiding when necessary for their survival, but newly organized in October of 1999, into a tenacious and daring national federation. The nation-wide Haitian Press Federation advanced against all odds, and held eight regional meetings which changed political discourse ceaselessly in Haiti. The country now enters a post-Aristide interlude. The failure of one regime does not guarantee success for the next. A Haiti Chronicle offers latest context for understanding Haiti’s current crisis, and opportunity.

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