{"id":171,"date":"2006-02-07T10:21:22","date_gmt":"2006-02-07T18:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=171"},"modified":"2006-02-07T10:21:25","modified_gmt":"2006-02-07T18:21:25","slug":"first-haiti-elections-since-aristide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2006\/02\/07\/first-haiti-elections-since-aristide\/","title":{"rendered":"First Haiti Elections Since Aristide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2006_02_07_haiti.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2006_02_07_uprising.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/us.news3.yimg.com\/us.i2.yimg.com\/p\/ap\/20060206\/capt.xal10902062059.haiti_elections_xal109.jpg?x=380&#038;y=259&#038;sig=_ybhmsNddcUaaXr_Yr0Jzw--\" alt=\"Haiti Elections\" \/><em>GUEST: Brian Concannon Jr., Director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>After being rescheduled four times, presidential elections in Haiti are underway despite fears of instability and violence. These will be the first elections since the U.S. backed coup ousting President Jean-Bertrand Aristide two years ago. Thirty-three candidates vying for the presidency. Polls show former president Rene Preval is the favored candidate &#8211; he has been endorsed by the prominent human rights activist, Father Jean-Juste. Some hope that today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s elections will bring calm to the island\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 8.3 million residents. However, critics note that the U.N. stabilization mission, MINUSTAH, has failed in ending violence and that discriminatory electoral practices have, in effect, disenfranchised many of Haiti\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s impoverished residents. According to Tim Carney, the top US diplomat in Haiti, &#8220;the future of Haiti is at stake. It&#8217;s long past time that Haiti move into the modern world.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He made no mention of the US role in subverting Haitian democracy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUEST: Brian Concannon Jr., Director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti. After being rescheduled four times, presidential elections in Haiti are underway despite fears of instability and violence. These will be the first elections since the U.S. backed coup ousting President Jean-Bertrand Aristide two years ago. Thirty-three candidates vying for the presidency. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}