In every election in Haiti, there is a little something extra that gives the winner a boost. This is not about our own manipulations to favor X or Y, nor about blatant foreign interference.
The boost in the country’s first truly democratic elections was Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s use of Creole in 1990, in a country that had only just, with the 1987 Constitution, recognized as an official language the one spoken by everyone. At the time, the other candidates expressed themselves mainly in French.
If President René Préval’s first ele
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