Divine intervention is the only hope, unless President Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson can pull a rabbit out of the hat of Haiti's misery in the next 24 hours. delegation to Haiti to attend the inauguration of President-elect Jovenel Moïse tomorow.
UPDATE: Voice of America posted a piece indicating that Trump is sending a delegation to Haiti that includes members of the old electoral swamp. "A White House statement says Under Secretary for Political Affairs Thomas Shannon will lead the Presidential delegation that also incudes the U. Ambassador to Haiti, Peter Mulrean, Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Kenneth Merten and Omarosa Manigault, the Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the Office of Public Liaison." Unfortunately, this group includes members of the old vote-fixing swamp that many Haitians were hoping President Trump would help them drain after the promises he made to the diaspora in Little Haiti in November. Someone should fire Manigault if Trump is listening to her.
Where they got it is anyone's guess, but fingers point at "private sector donations." Drug money? "Since its creation in 2005, the ONI has struggled to produce accurate, up-to-date lists of eligible voters, despite significant technical support from the OAS and financial backing from the major donor nations," says the new NLG-IADL report.The gist is knowledge and expertise that is useful in the cultural milieu or ecology in which the group is situated will be transferred across generations in the form of cultural artifacts, such as books, or learning traditions, as in apprenticeships (e.g., Baumeister, 2005; Richerson & Boyd, 2005; Flinn, 1997; Mithen, 1996).Across generations, the store of cultural knowledge accumulates and creates a gap between this knowledge base and the forms of folk knowledge and abilities that epigenetically emerge with children’s self-initiated activities.A new President is scheduled to be sworn in tomorrow, February 7.Haiti faces another cycle of narco-state domination and those drugs will continue to flow into another swamp--the swamp of southern Florida.