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Peter Dailey

Peter Dailey is a New York attorney and writer. For much of the Nineties he worked on Haitian human rights and political cases. (March 2003)

IN THE REVIEW

Haiti’s Betrayal

Haiti's Predatory Republic: The Unending Transition to Democracy

by Robert Fatton Jr.
In the hours following Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s inauguration on February 7, 2001, thousands of his supporters celebrated late into the night in the blocked-off streets around the Champ de Mars, dancing to the rhythm of the rara bands and passing around tots of rum. Three months earlier, the Haitian people had …

Haiti: The Fall of the House of Aristide

Haiti's Predatory Republic: The Unending Transition to Democracy

by Roger Fatton Jr.
From the air, Haiti’s border with the Dominican Republic is easy to trace: it is where the dense forests on the Dominican side abruptly stop. West of the frontier, Haiti’s mountainous countryside is scoured by gullies and ravines; almost all of Haiti’s vestigial forest cover is gone, and in the …