article en Haïti Liberté, V6 N21.

Discussion on Haiti book on WBAI (in NYC)

On September 13 I spoke about my new book on Pacifica Radio's WBAI, on the show Haiti: The Struggle Continues. The discussion begins at around 28 minutes into the program. You can download and listen to the program here.

Introduction to book published in Monthly Review magazine

The introduction to my new book has been published as a stand-alone  article in the September-October issue of Monthly Review magazine. Here is a PDF. The Brooklyn and Port-au-Prince based weekly newspaper Haiti Liberte (Vol. 6, No. 8.) has published an alternative version here.

Stealth Duvalierism

Haiti, Michel Martelly, and the Presidential Selection of 2010
Znet and Haiti Liberte

December 20, 2010
By Jeb Sprague

In the media coverage of Haiti's ongoing electoral crisis, presidential candidate Michel "Sweet Micky" Martelly, whom ruling Unity party candidate Jude Célestin edged out of Haiti's Jan. 16 run-off by less than 1%, has been portrayed as the victim of voting fraud and the leader of a populist upsurge against Haiti’s crooked Provisional Electoral Council (CEP).

Some have questioned his presidential suitability by pointing to his vulgar antics as a konpa musician over the last two decades, where he often made demeaning comments about women and periodically dropped his trousers to bare his backside.

The real problem with Martelly, however, is not his perceived immorality, but his heinous political history and close affi liation with the reactionary “forces of darkness," as they are called in Haiti, which have snuffed out each genuine attempt Haitians have made over the past 20 years to elect a democratic government. Far from a champion of democracy, Martelly has been a cheerleader for, and perhaps even a participant in, bloody coups d'état and military rule.