Politics

November 2019 brought no resolution to Haiti’s political crisis, with protests continuing at a lower but persistent level and the

October 2019 saw renewed efforts at political dialogue between the Haitian government and various opposition groups, facilitated by a combination

September 2019 brought a degree of normalization to daily life in Port-au-Prince that felt fragile but genuine, as the most

Senator Jean-Charles Moïse — no relation to the president — emerged in 2019 as one of the most recognizable figures

August 2019 brought tentative signs that Haiti’s prolonged lockdown might be easing, as exhaustion on multiple sides and intensified international

Journalists and political analysts spent much of 2019 trying to understand the organizational dynamics of Haiti’s protest movement — who

Haiti entered a near-total lockdown in July 2019 as protest activity escalated dramatically across the country. Roadblocks constructed from burning

A coalition of Haitian civil society organizations convened in Port-au-Prince in June 2019 to call for urgent national dialogue as

Jovenel Moïse, the Haitian president at the center of his country’s most serious political crisis in years, came to office

April 2019 marked a significant escalation in Haiti’s political crisis, with protest organizers launching a new wave of demonstrations and