While Haiti never surfaced as an issue within the presidential debates, Trump fanned the anger at the "King and Queen of Haiti" on several occasions, exaggerating facts. As OAS Special Representative Ricardo Seitenfus documents, Secretary of State Clinton played a heavy hand in reversing Haiti's 2010 elections, paving the way for carnival singer Michel Martelly, a.k.a. With the backing of the U.S., European Union, and the Organization for American States, Martelly's government organized elections. Whether this is the end of empire, and whether there are alternatives, is up for we the people to decide. Schuller's research on NGOs, globalization, disasters, and gender in Haiti has been published in thirty book chapters and peer-reviewed articles.

Source: Huffington Post November 21, 2016 22:27 UTC