New TWQ article on one of those countries apparently denigrated by Donald Trump: Global capitalism, Haiti, and the flexibilisation of paramilitarism https://t.co/4moFZdZQBy— thirdworldq (@thirdworldq) January 15, 2018
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Monday, January 15, 2018
New peer-reviewed article
I have a new research article on Haiti published in the journal Third World Quarterly. It can be read here. Also listen here for a related recent interview that I did with Pacifica Radio's show Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod. I was also quoted in the Miami Herald in regards to this research.
Monday, November 21, 2011
Interview on KPFT
Here is the interview I did on KPFT's Human Rights Show, this last Friday (November 25th). This show airs on 90.1 FM in the greater Houston, Galveston, and upper Texas Gulf Coast (and affiliates). 
Thursday, December 30, 2010
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.
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.
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