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Haiti Archive
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Cuba Conceals Cholera Outbreak
By Jennifer Aron, Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs on February 26, 2013 | 3 CommentsMedia silence in the Caribbean is not necessarily good for Cuba, the island known in and around the world for its health care, tourism, and socialist economy. One should also recall the campaign Cuba had in the 1960s to produce 10 million tons of sugar in which it fell... -
![Three years after the 2010 earthquake, Haiti continues its struggle to rebuild. An expanding cholera outbreak and food shortages following Hurricane Sandy in October 2012 have hampered earlier relief efforts.[1] All the while, Haiti has become one of the most extreme cases of a state relying on foreign aid, receiving...](http://www.coha.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Photo.png "Haiti Continues to Struggle Three Years After the Earthquake")
Haiti Continues to Struggle Three Years After the Earthquake
By JT Larrimore and Brielle Sharkey, Research Associates at The Council on Hemispheric Affairs on January 18, 2013 | 8 CommentsThree years after the 2010 earthquake, Haiti continues its struggle to rebuild. An expanding cholera outbreak and food shortages following Hurricane Sandy in October 2012 have hampered earlier relief efforts.[1] All the while, Haiti has become one of the most extreme cases of a state relying on foreign aid, receiving... -
XXII Ibero-American Summit: Spanish Wishful Thinking
By Darya Vakulenko, Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs on November 20, 2012 | 6 CommentsNovember 17 was the last official day of the annual Ibero-American Summit that took place in the historic port city of Cádiz, in southwestern Spain. The timing was symbolic, as this year is the bicentennial anniversary of Spain’s inaugural constitution. First and foremost, the current European debt crisis made up... -
Re: ”Isaac Leaves death, destruction in Haiti”
By Joel Jaeger, Research Associate at Council on Hemispheric Affairs on September 4, 2012 | 1 CommentDear Editor, Your August 27 article “Isaac leaves death, destruction in Haiti” by Jacqueline Charles recounts the latest calamity to strike the disaster-prone nation. However, if the media also reported on plans to rebuild Haiti’s infrastructure and better prepare its citizens for inevitable future disasters rather than merely covering the... -
Haiti Amends Constitution
By Elena Maffei, Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs on July 25, 2012 | No CommentsTous les Haïtiens sont des Haïtiens. Fini le débat. With these two sentences, which state that all Haitians are Haitian and thus equal, Haitian President Michel Martelly announced on June 19 that the amendments to the 1987 Constitution, approved by the National Parliament on May 9, 2011, are now in... -
Haiti’s Paramilitary Threat
By Carla Hinson, Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs on June 29, 2012 | No CommentsA rogue paramilitary group has established a presence in Haiti by parading around both Haiti’s capital and the countryside dressed in mismatched military uniforms and carrying assorted weapons. This group of veterans and new recruits has begun to threaten the sensitive security situation in Haiti, demanding the reinstatement of the...