PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian President Michel Martelly fired members of a nine-person electoral council to make way for legislative and local elections planned for next year, a government official said Friday. Presidential adviser Damian Merlo said the leader removed the council members through a decree that will allow him to begin the process...
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By ADAM HOCHSCHILD Published: December 29, 2011 For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding — the supposed inferiority of blacks, the heritage of slavery, overpopulation — for why Haiti remains the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. None of these work: nearby Barbados...
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Mise en contexte: Après un suspense terrible, le Président Michel Joseph Martelly avait pris une décision d’homme d’Etat, empreinte de lucidité politique et de sagesse, en retirant les amendements frauduleux à la Constitution de 1987 qui étaient entachés d’un nouveau vice très grave qui entraînait leur impraticabilité et leur inapplicabilité, un second faux en...
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