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Counting ballots in Port-au-Prince. Photo by Michael Levy
Haiti
Haitians have been challenging authoritarian rule since 1986. In 1990, Jean-Bertrand Aristide was elected president, but a coup ousted him seven months later. A U.S. intervention reinstated Aristide in 1994. Rene Preval was elected president in 1996, until Aristide won a second term in 2000 and a political crisis developed on grounds that the elections were fraudulent. In 2004, Aristide left Haiti amid a rebel insurrection. Although democratic rule was restored in 2006, bitter political divisions persist.
Civil Society, Election Observation, Democracy Assistance, Civic Education, Governance
Democracy Assistance
Democracy assistance can be defined as the legal, technical and logistic support provided to electoral laws, processes and institutions.
The United States of America
IFES works directly with local, state, federal, and private partners in supporting technical assistance initiatives and projects. IFES has direct access to American election specialists whose talents include administration, training, education, material development, outreach, technology transference, and legal review and analysis. IFES technicians and specialists hail from across the United States.
Civic Education
Civic education deals with broader concepts underpinning a democratic society such as the respective roles and responsibilities of citizens, government, political and special interests, the mass media, and the business and non-profit sectors, as well as the significance of periodic and competitive elections.
IFES has been involved in the democracy movement in Latin America and the Caribbean since 1989. In that time, IFES has worked in more than 20 nations, strengthening democracy.
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