Haitian Politics Blog

The radical opposition in Haiti has announced once again street protests in the Port-au-Prince area but many tap-tap drivers came out to help the general public get to where they want to go in the early morning hours Thursday.

Haitian opposition leader Moise Jn Charles has announced that they will once again restart the protests in the streets putting Haiti on lockdown in another attempt to force president Jovenel Moise to resign.

A journalist asks ex Haitian President Michel Martelly: Don't you think now is the time more than ever for everyone in the (political) system in Haiti to sit down for a real dialogue in order to find alternative solutions for the country? His reply with shock you...

United States Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale met with Haitian president Jovenel Moise Friday, 01 Mar 2019, and other members of the political opposition.

Four months after his incarceration in the civil prison of Saint-Marc, the former head of the Haitian National Police, Godson Orelus got his freedom Tuesday, February 26, 2019.

Haitian prime minister Jean Henry Ceant promised the Haitian population that food prices would go down in the coming days in the aftermath of street protest that paralyzed Haiti for more than 7 says in early February, but citizens are still complaining.

Haitian president Jovenel Moise signed a new decree creating the Committee for Facilitation of the Inter-Haitian National Dialogue which was published Thursday, February 21 2019, in the official journal Le Moniteur, but really, how can a group of Haitians sit down in a dialogue about something they all want and are not willing to share?

In regards to the opposition putting Haiti on LOCK and the school children unable to go to school, a journalist complained to one the movement leaders, Andre Michel, saying: "Parents want their children to go back to school. Talk to them!" His response is shocking...

While the Haitian government is trying to bring things back to normal this Monday morning, Opposition leader Andre Michel announces street protest accross the country at 10 am on the same day.

"After 7 days of protests, we hear the voice of the Haitian school children who cannot go to school. The children want to go to school," Education Minister Pierre Josué Agénor Cadet who asks Haitian parents to the send the children back to school.