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’It is illusory to believe that an electoral process can be carried out in Haiti’
Frédéric Thomas 09/02/26
On February 7, amid an atmosphere of political decline and heightened crisis, the mandate of Haiti’s transitional presidential council came to an end. Parliamentary and presidential elections are scheduled for August 30 and December 16, 2026. (…)
“You can’t eradicate the problem of armed gangs in Haiti with weapons alone. Our (…)
Frédéric Thomas 22/04/24
Since 29 February 2024, Haiti has been in the grip of a new wave of armed gang violence. Prime Minister Ariel Henry, who was travelling abroad at the time, found himself unable to return to the country. Washington, which had previously been alone (…)
Violence in Haiti : “What interests the armed gangs is chaos”
Frédéric Thomas 06/03/24
Since the end of February, the heavily armed gangs that are proliferating in Haiti have regrouped to attack strategic targets. The security and political crisis now seems to have reached a point of no return. Analysis of the situation by (…)
’The situation in Haiti is going from bad to worse with no end in sight’
Frédéric Thomas, Nicolas Bourcier 31/05/22
In an interview with Le Monde, political scientist Frédéric Thomas (CETRI) argues that the alliance between the Haitian oligarchy and the former colonial powers, France and the United States is at the origin of the ’Haitian misfortune.’ With a (…)
Webinar - Haiti : Break the deadlock. Civil society’s response to the crisis
Frédéric Thomas 10/02/22
Recording of the online conference organised by Caroline Roose (Green/EFA Member of the European Parliament) and Centre tricontinental on the situation in Haiti, the role of civil society in the crisis and EU policy towards Haiti. At the end of (…)
Stop Silence Haiti ! Change begins by putting an end to impunity
Frédéric Thomas 19/10/20
82 organisations (trade unions, NGOs, movements of farmers, feminists, citizens) from Haiti, France, Belgium, Canada, Spain, Germany and Benin call for an end of silence and international complicity with the Haitian government. “No, it is not (…)
Haiti and the international community: between denial and complicity
Frédéric Thomas 06/07/20
Tribune published in Libération on July 2, 2020. On June 19, before the UN Security Council, the picture drawn up by the special representative of the United Nations secretary general in Haiti, Helen Meagher La Lime, contrasted with the (…)
Demonstrations, corruption, paralysis … Ten years after the earthquake of January (…)
Adeline Mullet, Frédéric Thomas 13/01/20
Haitians continue to demand the resignation of President Jovenel Moïse and demonstrate against poverty, shortages and corruption. Article published in FranceTVInfo, referring to analysis by Frédéric Thomas, researcher fellow at CETRI. It is a (…)
The borders of idealism? From third-worldism to “sans-frontiérisme”
Frédéric Thomas 29/12/16
In this particularly interesting and detailed study, Eleanor Davey traces the rise of the “sans-frontiériste” movement in France in general and, in view of this NGO’s dominant role, of “Médecins sans frontières” (MSF – Doctors without Borders) in (…)
Haïti, 2016 : ‘Revoting better’ ?
Frédéric Thomas 25/01/16
After the earthquake of 12 January 2010, the motto was ‘Building back better’. Six years later, at a time of elections that become more and more contested, it is now time to ‘Revote better’. Postponed many times, accumulating to a delay of four (…)