Proposal for Haiti
Writing in Listin Diario, Hugo Guiliani Cury, the former governor of the Central Bank and currently a diplomat, comments on the state of affairs in Haiti, where the poor have just become even poorer since the 12 January earthquake. Guiliani reiterates that the problem is that unviable solutions are trying to be imposed on Haiti.
“In the search for solutions for Haiti, for years the international community and the US have tried to export the democratic model. They have held elections, elected governments and it has not worked,” he writes. He explains why: “The reality is that Haiti does not have the institutions that can make a democratic regime work. One has to recall that a democracy is the last step in the construction of a state.”
He writes: “The earthquake showed that neither a government nor institutions capable of giving the minimum protection to its citizens exist [...]
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