Haiti: Reparations and reconstruction by Horace Campbell http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/73445

The process that brought Michel ‘Sweet Micky’ Martelly to Haiti’s ‘presidency was a farce that will 'force popular forces to distinguish between processes of democratisation and pseudo-elections without democratic participation’, writes Horace Campell, in an article on the people of Haiti’s two-hundred year struggle to reconstruct their society.A global ‘war on terror’ imposed a different agenda on the world while real terrorism against the peoples of Haiti was supported by the west.

Thugs, death squads, drug runners and anti-social elements permeating Haiti were supported by France and the United States.To block the energetic measures of the people of Haiti, the imperial forces of the US imposed a new president who was clearly enamored by the militarist traditions of the Duvalierists. The inauguration of Michel ‘Sweet Micky’ Martelly as President of Haiti on 14 May 2011, was an affront to the peoples of Haiti and the world.