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| 1 |  | 2008-12-28: Senator Boulos and the Diaspora are Part of the Solution for a Prosperous Haiti by Jean H. Charles in Caribbean Net News |  |
| Make Haiti a country hospitable to all: mulattoes, blacks, Diaspora, tourists and foreigners. Senator Boulos championed this doctrine. His popularity threatened some. Their solution was to chase him from the senate as a foreigner. | Rating: 5 |
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| 2 |  | 2008-12-24: Haiti's Unraveling Will Test Obama by Dan Erikson, Inter-American Dialogue | |
| Webmaster's note: the author is correct in foreseeing an unraveling and testing, but incorrect on the date of legislative expiration: the terms of the deputies and half of the remaining senate last until 2010. | Rating: 3 |
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| 3 |  | 2008-12-23: Préval Will Demagogue the Dominican Issue by Sen. Rudolph Boulos, in El Nacional article by José Miguel Montero |  |
| He plans to whip up anti-Dominican sentiment to help him win popularity and stay in power past his appointed term. However, the correct road to settle our differences with them is via negotiations and commissions. | Rating: 5 |
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| 4 |  | 2008-12-23: Boulos Targeted for Assassination in Dom. Rep. by Michel Soukar |  |
| Noted in his year-end roundup (below): Not only was Boulos threatened on the day of the senate vote, forcing him to resign under duress, but later assassins were sent after him in the Dominican Republic. | Rating: 5 |
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| 5 |  | 2008-12-23: The Year in Review by Michel Soukar | |
| The president had neither vision nor program. He blamed the constitution for instability, but might that not rather be the behavior of our rulers since 1987? | Rating: 5 |
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| 6 |  | 2008-12-20: Haiti, a Deep Reservoir of Artistic Talent by Jean H. Charles, Caribbean Net News | |
| Buyers and connoisseurs of fine and luxury items, be aware! Haiti is your venue for quality art accessories that please the eye and the spirit while being fully functional. | Rating: 3 |
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| 7 |  | 2008-12-20: Lacking Knowledge of Haiti, Amnesty International Names a Privileged Préval Agent as Prospective 'Prisoner of Conscience' by Stanley Lucas | |
| A Haitian who was once an independent journalist is now also a Préval/Lavalas political agent. After thumbing his nose at the court, he was duly convicted of slander. On this slender basis, Amnesty adopted him as a prisoner of conscience. | Rating: 3 |
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| 8 | | 2008-12-20: Guttering Candle: Shoddy Research Leads Amnesty International To Mistake Préval Operative for 'Prisoner of Conscience' by Amnesty International | |
| A Haitian long identified by a U.S. official as a Préval agent was tasked with slandering opponents of an illegal third term. Sentenced to a month in prison for this slander, he is suddenly named a prospective "prisoner of conscience." | Rating: 1 |
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| 9 |  | 2008-12-15: Some Form of Trusteeship Needed for Haiti by Gen. Juan Emilio Cheyre, la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile | |
| It isn't working. Common notions of sovereignty should evolve given the fact of a failed state. Explore a transitional de-facto trusteeship or shared sovereignty, which, although drastic, may be the only thing that can make institutions work. | Rating: 5 |
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| 10 |  | 2008-12-15: Haiti Is Not One Nation, but Two by Ray Killick | |
| Since 1804 it has been the marginalized masses and the elite. Exacerbating the differences between them is the politicians' speciality. But extending a hand to the masses that they may reclaim their humanity is indispensable for the renaissance of Haiti. | Rating: 5 |
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| 11 |  | 2008-12-13: Living Under a Curse by Robert Benodin | |
| The curse is misgovernance and Préval's power-grabbing which even the internationals now see as problematic. The Haitian people know who is oppressing them. But without political leadership, they will again explode in unfocused anger. | Rating: 5 |
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| 12 |  | 2008-12-12: Slanderer Sentenced to Month in Prison by Le Nouvelliste | |
| A Haitian who has been identified by the U.S. as a palace agent and who doubles as a journalist is sentenced to a month in prison after his conviction for slander. He had falsely accused Senator Boulos of noncooperation in the Dominique investigation. | Rating: 5 |
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| 13 | | 2008-12-09: Préval Plans to Break the Constitution and Stay in Power by Coalition pour la Défense de la Constitution | |
| The sole obstacle to Préval's remaining in power past his term is the 1987 constitution, so he is preparing phony elections to put in a slate of senators willing to dump it for him. | Rating: 5 |
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| 14 | | 2008-12-08: Préval Is Obsessed with Staying in Power by Robert Benodin, on Radio Classique Inter | |
| He wants to sweep away anything that seems to be an obstacle to his illegal third term. He will use any means to this end. The gangleaders are now regular visitors to the palace. Three of them have offices there. | Rating: 5 |
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| 15 |  | 2008-12-07: So Many Prizes, So Little Time by Radio Kiskeya | |
| Nancy Roc snags another prize to add to her growing collection. $6,000 from the Quebec journalists' union for her outstanding story, "Can Canada Assume Environmental Leadership in Haiti?" | Rating: 3 |
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| 16 |  | 2008-12-02: Watch Out for a New Round of Rigged Elections by Cyrus Sibert, Réseau Citadelle | |
| The regime has seized the electoral machinery and will install gangleaders, drug traffickers and corruptionists whenever it finally holds elections, as in 2000. As a result, changes of government and politics will take place in the street. | Rating: 5 |
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| 17 |  | 2008-12-02: Exhumé, Back as Minister of Justice: Can He Exhume the Aristide-Embezzlement File that Préval Dropped So Quickly? by Nancy Roc, in Le Matin | |
| Last summer Lucy Komisar reported the role of Aristide and top Republicans in the looting of Teleco. The FCC levied a $1.3 million fine and a CEO resigned. But in Haiti, the case to recover the stolen funds remains stagnant. | Rating: 5 |
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| 18 |  | 2008-12-01: Haiti Solutions by Stanley Lucas | |
| The seasoned Washington-based analyst was one of the first to predict that Préval would return to traditional patterns of power-grabbing, with all the destabilization and misgovernance this choice implies. | Rating: 5 |
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| 19 |  | 2008-12-01: Senator Unable to Return Because of Security Threats by webmaster | |
| Although invited back by the senators who illegally expelled him, Senator Boulos cannot set foot in Haiti because he is targeted by gangs working out of the national palace. He is not the only one. | Rating: 5 |
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| 20 |  | 2008-11-29: Senate Calls for Boulos Return by Jean Pharès Jérôme, Le Nouvelliste | |
| Dans une déclaration adoptée jeudi les parlementaires ont pris l'engagement d'entreprendre les démarches nécessaires pour le retour de leur collègue. | Rating: 5 |
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