New Head of Haiti

May 16th, 2006 - Tags: Haiti, Latin America - Comments Off

Haiti got a new president on Sunday, Rene Preval. He’s the country’s first democratically-elected leader in quite some time.

Preval’s inauguration ceremony was generally a happy event, but it was a tense sort of happiness. Democratic civilian presidents have a tendency to get violently deposed in Haiti, but then again so do Haiti’s un-elected civilian presidents, interim presidents, mili

military presidents, constitutional monarchs, emperors… pretty much the entire executive branch of government, really.