From Jean-Bertrand Aristide to Gerard Latortue: The Unending Crisis of Democratization in Haiti
- Dupuy states that Aristide left Haiti on February 29, 2004, after an armed insurgency began in Gonaïves in early February.
- He reports that the interim government had an 8-month mandate to organize elections, which were then announced for October and November 2005.
- He states that CARICOM's late-January 2004 plan would have let Aristide finish his term, and that Aristide accepted it while the opposition Democratic Platform rejected it.
- He reports that CARICOM was the only bloc of OAS members that refused to recognize the interim government, and that OAS Resolution 2058 of June 2004 expressed concern over Aristide's abrupt departure.
- He argues that the United States and France sided with the opposition and refused to authorize a peacekeeping force until a political settlement had been reached.
Dupuy begins from his 2003 assessment that, if the political crisis between President Aristide and the organized opposition forced Aristide out before the end of his term in February 2006, only a foreign military intervention could prevent civil war, and says events confirmed his general prognosis. He recounts Aristide's departure on February 29, 2004 after an armed insurgency began in Gonaïves, the deployment of the Multinational Interim Force and its replacement by MINUSTAH in June 2004, and the installation of the Alexandre-Latortue interim government.
He describes the CARICOM plan of late January 2004, which Aristide accepted and the opposition Democratic Platform rejected, and the disputed circumstances of Aristide's exit, which the United States says was voluntary. The article is written from the author's analytical position, and its later sections address the interim government's record on human rights and the planning of elections.
How to cite
Journal of Latin American Anthropology, 2005, From Jean-Bertrand Aristide to Gerard Latortue: The Unending Crisis of Democratization in Haiti, accessed via HaitiDocs, https://www.haitidocs.org/doc/dupuy-2005-aristide-latortue-unending-crisis-democratization
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