tainted vote

Today's Miami Herald online featured an editorial calling the UN and donor nations (e.g. USA) to address recent political manipulations leading up to Haiti's parliamentary elections scheduled for February or March next year. The longer I am in Haiti the more convinced i become that the total lack of a stable government run by honorable and decently competent leaders is the primary barrier to Haiti's development. No amount of aid dollars and donations will solve this internal poverty of leadership - and yet we continue to turn first to economic answers to Haiti's problems. In many ways money is much easier to give than genuine accountability.