Are Democratic and Development Ideals Disappearing from Haiti’s Political Landscape?

In the late 1970s, under the dictatorship of Jean-Claude Duvalier, with the first attempts to create opposition political parties, political actors came together under the banner of organizations whose names reflected political traditions already established elsewhere in the world: Attorney Grégoire Eugène founded the Haitian Social Christian Party (PSCH), while Pastor Sylvio Claude founded the Haitian Christian Democratic Party (PDCH).

Following the fall of the dictatorship in 1986, the country witnessed the return o