State crisis and international intervention in Haiti

Abstract

The article offers keys to understanding Haiti’s complex and dramatic social and political fabric. Starting from the political rupture that led to the recent fall of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the author analyzes the factors behind the country’s deep State crisis, among them the corruption of a government whose leader had enjoyed broad popular support in the early 1990s. It also analyzes the role of “foreign intervention”, both in the open crisis and during the government, and the role of the democratic sectors of civil society grouped in the “Democratic Platform”.