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| Haiti's Political Prisoners Exemplify Challenges of Democratic Transition
by Brian Concannon, Jr, Power and Interest News Report
Three months into Haitian constitutional President Rene Preval's term, his government has released most of the high-profile political prisoners jailed by the Interim Government of Haiti(IGH). Yet the release of the more numerous low-profile political prisoners has become entangled in larger class conflicts and poses a serious challenge to the new government. |
| Haiti's Democracy: A Dream Deferred
Before the 2004 US-sponsored coup, Haiti had begun the enormous task of building a popular democracy. How did the US and its allies reverse a social revolution with a popular base of 8 million people? |
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