Haiti: 203rd Year of  Independence · Global Voices
Alice Backer

Reflecting on the festivities for the 203rd anniversary of Haitian independence and the clan-like disputes that colored them, Ailleurs Vu d'Ici writes (Fr): “Everyone knows that our society's disease is the unlimited thirst for power. And this pathology … has adopted recurrent forms along our history. It is definitely one of the root causes of the chronic instability that has too often marred our political life.”