Hi everyone!
Today is containment, not beaches bands jealous! And yet, it's not for us it's worse. Some NGOs have confined their staff from Thursday evening until tomorrow night included. The elections were held today. Haitians elect their President and parts, also their senator.
Twelve of the eighteen candidates call already canceled the first round (http://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2010/11/28/haiti-douze-candidats-demandent- the cancellation-of-the-election_1446109_3210.html). Of course, the party of power in place, Init, is not one. According to news from various people with whom we discussed the situation is calm although electric. There are some incidents and protest, but not really violent scenes. At noon, The Mountain (you know, the forest) area near Jacmel, it is the wrong ballots that had been installed in polling stations. Result, the current member, the government candidate, came with his men to close the office. The tension is rising and there were some blows. It calmed down afterwards.
Elsewhere in the country, Hinche example, the ruling party wanted to go as a voter in a polling station. The head of the polling station wanted to regulate. Again there eu des affrontements avec des tirs et un votant décédé.
Ces élections étaient initialement prévues en début d'année. Le tremblement de terre en a décidé autrement. Le pays a vraiment été très abîmé par le séisme du 12 janvier dernier : les Haïtiens sont marqués par cet événement. C'est désormais constitutif de leur mémoire collective. Je n'aurai pas la prétention de vous faire un cours de géopolitique haïtienne. Néanmoins, il faut savoir qu'avant le 12 janvier, Haïti tentait de se construire une classe moyenne à la brésilienne ; classe moyenne capable de faire avancer le pays entre les pauvres qui le restent et les the rich who are more and more. This middle class is the one that lost the most. Coldly we can say that the poor who had shortly before much could not lose ... I put aside the grim counted the dead. The rich have enough money to overcome the disaster and leave the country if necessary. As for the middle class, they could lose their homes, their cars, those that allowed property to anchor their social advancement.
The trauma is in the walls but also in people's minds. These elections are experienced with a certain inevitability. If we can not predict an earthquake, we can reduce vulnerability and intensity of damage. But the country, installed in a dramatic social and economic situation, not prepared, the fault of the politicians in place. Haitians are necessarily part of the responsibility. But this is not the slightest shadow of the immense responsibility of leadership in recent decades. Just as countries or organizations that have monopolized the sovereignty of Haiti, first and foremost the United States and the UN.
Among the speeches of this election, that of a candidate, Mirlande Manigat had an important echo (http://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/portfolio/2010/11/28/les-six-favoris-de -s-presidential-election-haitienne_1445132_3222.html ens_id # = 1290927). She is former senator and the wife of a former Head of State during the critical transition period experienced by the country in the late 1980s. While criticizing the current government is a formality (the President has taken more than a week to recognize that there could be cases of cholera in the country), she presented the issue of this election in terms of responsibility of each of Haiti to assist in the determination of the country. This can easily remain a slogan but ephemeral addressing issues. Paradox for this country, the revolution of independence has followed the lead of France and the United States there are over 200 years.
But fate is not the island. Haitians are proud of their country, proud of their identity, they would power their measurement. Haiti still has a few revolutions to conduct and much to (re) construct. (Http://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/article/2010/11/28/elections-en-haiti-les-defis-d-un-pays-en-ruine_1445064_3222.html ens_id # = 1290927).
At the time I finish writing this article, a noisy event takes place in Jacmel, as in other large cities. We stand on the sidelines.
soon!
Posters of the favorite candidate of the then current power
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