What it will take for Haiti to be a real, true democracy GlobeDebate
Robert Muggah is the co-founder of the Igarapé Institute and SecDev Group. Athena Kolbe is an assistant professor of social work at the University of North Carolina
Protesters are adamant that Mr. Moïse must step down. Their demands began gathering steam after auditors revealed how billions of dollars went missing from the special fund set up to pay for oil from Venezuela at cut-rate prices. Investigations revealed how a company overseen by Mr. Moïse was richly rewarded through the Petrocaribe fund for a road construction project, in a deal for which no contract was signed.
Those protests flared up again in October and November and have led to this month’s crisis. While the recent headlines are focused on the Petrocaribe scandal, Haitians have plenty of other reasons to be upset, not least energy shortages, rising food prices, the high cost of living and a government skimming millions of dollars in public funds.
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