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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05PARAMARIBO687 |
TOWARD A MORE OBJECTIVE VIEW OF THE CHAVEZ [...] On the same day that the leading paper carried a front page story praising a Cuban-Venezuelan program providing eye treatment to impoverished Surinamers, another paper carried an article noting that Chavez' traditional supporters are beginning to turn against him. The opinion piece written by [...] |
2005-10-21 16:55:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV NS PKAO |
| 05PARAMARIBO690 |
PRESS REPORT ON DESECRATION OF HUMAN REMAINS BY [...] Local press has carried AP reports of alleged desecration of human remains in Afghanistan. There has to date been no comment, but in Suriname pundits and editorialists are often slow to pick up story. 2. Ambassador used points in reftel in letters to leaders of two largest Muslim organiza [...] |
2005-10-21 19:08:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | KISL PREL NS PKAO |
| 05PORTAUPRINCE3068 |
CUSTOMS COLLECTION: THREE-FOLD INCREASE NEAR [...] Summary: Econoff met December 8 with new director of the Haiti-Dominican Republic border crossing at Malpasse, Jeantal Clairvil, who has increased customs revenue from USD 375,000 to USD 1.3 million in the three months since his appointment. In the past shippers have avoided taxes by under-inv [...] |
2005-12-15 16:14:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM HA PKAO |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE101 |
HAITI ELECTIONS: OAS DISTRIBUTES OVER 60 PERCENT [...] According to OAS electoral chief Elizabeth Spehar, the OAS has received all 3.5 million ID cards and had distributed 2,070,369 or 59 percent as of their most recent reports from the field on January 11. Taking into account delayed reporting of distribution outside of Port-au-Prince, Spehar es [...] |
2006-01-13 19:18:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE111 |
WHA/DAS DUDDY'S VISIT TO HAITI, JANUARY 10-11 [...] (C) Summary: WHA/DAS Patrick Duddy during his visit to Port-au-Prince on January 10-11 urged the IGOH, political parties, and UN and OAS officials to hold to the most recent electoral calendar, take action to improve the security environment, and encourage Haitians to participate in the elec [...] |
2006-01-17 14:01:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PKAO HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE124 |
HAITI ELECTIONS: FEBRUARY 7 ON TRACK, WITH BUMPS [...] (SBU) Summary: MINUSTAH and OAS officials in a January 13 meeting with donors explained that while some significant problems need to be resolved, the February 7 first round is technically possible. Political party complaints about the number of voting centers and voting center assignments have [...] |
2006-01-18 20:00:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE125 |
PREVAL'S CAMPAIGN OFFICE BURNED IN ST. MARC [...] (U) According to Radio Metropole, unidentified individuals burned the campaign office of L,Espwa presidential candidate Rene Preval in St. Marc (lower-Artibonite) on January 18. The demonstrators also reportedly burned a vehicle and a large poster of Preval and placed flaming barricades and [...] |
2006-01-18 20:47:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PKAO HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE129 |
VOTING CENTERS CENTER OF CRITICISMS OF HAITIAN [...] (C) Summary: Political Parties and some Provisional Electoral Council employees continue to assert there are widespread problems with voting centers. MINUSTAH and the OAS reject their claims as politically and financially motivated. They have worked throughout January to rectify voting cente [...] |
2006-01-19 19:48:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE14 |
HAITI'S CENTRAL PLATEAU POOR AND ISOLATED [...] Summary: Hinche is the capital of the Centre department and only 50 miles north of Port-au-Prince, but mountains and bad roads conspire to keep it extremely isolated. Since early 2004 when the former Haitian Army (ex-FAd'H) used it as a staging ground, there has been little violence in Hinche. [...] |
2006-01-04 14:42:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA ECON EAGR EAID |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE142 |
OAS ESTIMATES 80 PERCENT OF HAITIAN ELECTORAL IDS [...] No summary [...] |
2006-01-20 20:02:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE169 |
OAS ESTIMATES 88 PERCENT OF HAITIAN IDS DISTRIBUTED [...] The OAS reported January 23 that it has distributed 2,846,793 or 81 percent of the 3.5 million Haitian ID cards. However, taking into account delayed reporting (most of the OAS figures date from January 18 - 20) the OAS estimated it had actually distributed over 3.1 million or 88 percent of th [...] |
2006-01-24 18:53:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE180 |
CEP GENERATES POSITIVE PRESS COVERAGE OF HAITIAN [...] Summary: Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) Director General Jacques Bernard initiated a public awareness campaign to debunk misinformation about elections in a series of press appearances beginning January 18. Bernard appeared first in a TV interview to explain the current process and differ [...] |
2006-01-25 16:23:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE211 |
HAITI ELECTIONS: SECURITY PLAN READY [...] (C) Election Day security plans remain on track, according to MINUSTAH's Chief of Elections Security and Planning, Neil Warriner. Despite rumors to the contrary, MINUSTAH UNPol and the Haitian National Police (HNP) will jointly patrol all voting centers, including those in Cite Soleil. Wa [...] |
2006-01-27 20:48:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC MARR PKAO HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE217 |
HAITI ELECTION DAY PROCESS AND PLANS [...] Introduction: This cable outlines the process for election day including: opening and closing of voting centers; public transportation; the steps to casting a vote; transporting the results to Port-au-Prince for tabulation; and releasing the results to the public. End Introduction. 2. Sche [...] |
2006-01-30 17:28:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE235 |
HAITI ELECTIONS: FEBRUARY 7 OR BUST [...] (C) Summary: In a January 27 elections meeting with the OAS, MINUSTAH, and donors, Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) Director General Jacques Bernard stated that the only obstacle to the February 7 election date is fear; logistical matters will not keep the people from voting. He assured t [...] |
2006-02-01 15:53:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PKAO HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE239 |
NATIONAL DIALOGUE CHAIRMAN ANTICIPATES DESMOND [...] (U) Haiti's Ambassador at Large for National Dialogue Monsignor Gayot, Bishop of Cap-Haitien, met with the Charge on January 31 to discuss the arrival of South African Bishop Desmond Tutu on February 12-13. Bishop Tutu will be in Haiti to work with the National Dialogue in its effort to prom [...] |
2006-02-01 20:48:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM PKAO HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE240 |
DDR IN HAITI: EMMANUEL ARISTIDE'S LEGACY [...] Summary: The recent arrest of Disarmament, Demobilization and Re-Insertion (DDR) participant Emmanuel Aristide provoked renewed questioning of MINUSTAH's DDR strategy targeting armed gang members in the violent slums of Port-au-Prince. Without some kind of peace accord or an amnesty agreement [...] |
2006-02-01 20:53:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM PKAO HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE249 |
HAITI VOTE TABULATION CENTER [...] Summary: On January 27 and 29 PDAS Jonathan Farrar and Charge Carney separately visited the Vote Tabulation Center (VTC), which will be the nerve center of Haiti's election results tabulation. The VTC is located roughly one km from the MINUSTAH base at the Port-au-Prince airport. MINUSTAH ha [...] |
2006-02-02 20:48:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE251 |
OAS REPORTS 89 PERCENT BUT ESTIMATES 94 PERCENT OF [...] No summary [...] |
2006-02-02 21:03:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE252 |
HAITIAN ELECTIONS TECHNICALLY READY, BUT POLITICAL [...] Introduction: In a meeting with the donors and international elections partners February 1, Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) Director General gave a readout from the January 29 elections simulation. The simulation tested distribution of materials, the status of the Voting Centers (VC), and [...] |
2006-02-03 18:23:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE260 |
CAMPAIGN ENDS PEACEFULLY IN HAITI [...] This message is sensative but unclassified; please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Campaigning in Haiti officially ended Saturday, February 4. Presidential Charles (Charlito) Henri Baker was the only candidate to hold a mass rally in Port-au-Prince. Front-runner Rene Preval cance [...] |
2006-02-05 21:32:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ASEC PKAO KDEM HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE261 |
HAITI ELECTIONS OBSERVATIONS #2 [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified; please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Haiti remained calm on election day minus two. Election Observation Teams (EOTs) in Port-au-Prince reported that the streets were quiet and that elections authorities continued to finalize preparat [...] |
2006-02-05 21:52:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ASEC PKAO KDEM HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE266 |
HAITI ELECTIONS OBSERVATIONS 1 [...] Summary: As of 1530 local/EST five of six teams dispatched to the countryside had arrived safely at their cities of observation except for Election Observation Team (EOT) Hinche, which is still on the road. EOT Hinche estimates it should arrive by 1830 local/EST. Three EOTs are on the grou [...] |
2006-02-06 12:37:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ASEC PKAO KDEM HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE275 |
HAITI ELECTIONS OBSERVATIONS #3 [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified; please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: All six provincial Election Observation Teams (EOTs) unanimously report calm in their areas. Port-au-Prince EOTs and Embassy staff report light traffic but normal commercial activity. MINUSTAH pol [...] |
2006-02-06 21:01:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ASEC PKAO KDEM HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE283 |
HAITI ELECTIONS: ELECTION DAY A SUCCESS [...] (SBU) Summary: From all accounts, Haitian Election Day concluded successfully on February 7. Few Bureaux de vote (BVs) opened on schedule but once voting began and after the initial rush into the Voting Centers, the majority of the crowds assumed orderly lines and displayed remarkable patie [...] |
2006-02-08 20:34:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ASEC PKAO KDEM HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE31 |
HAITI ELECTIONS: MINUSTAH LOGISTICS IN PLACE, [...] (C) Summary: The MINUSTAH head of elections operations and logistics reported that MINUSTAH will be prepared logistically to administer elections, but that Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) must take some policy decisions to avoid additional delays. MINUSTAH is ready to begin training poll [...] |
2006-01-06 12:45:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE311 |
PREVAL LEADS, BUT UNLIKELY TO EXCEED 50 PERCENT [...] (S) Summary: Rene Preval continues to lead the Haitian race for president with 48.73 percent of the vote. As of 6:30 a.m. February 13, the CEP had entered 8281 of the 9208 or 89 percent of the proces verbaux (PV) into its database. The remaining roughly 1000 are either being examined before t [...] |
2006-02-13 20:12:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | SECRET | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE312 |
PRO-PREVAL DEMONSTRATIONS COVER PORT-AU-PRINCE [...] (C) Summary: Preval supporters are staging demonstrations as small as 50 people and as large as 4000-5000 at the SONAPI Voting Tabulation Center. The demonstrators are chanting in support of Preval and are calling for the announcement of a first-round victory. Post is concerned that demons [...] |
2006-02-13 20:13:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PKAO HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE314 |
HAITI ELECTIONS: WHY UNDERVOTES COUNT, WHY THE NDI [...] Article 185 of the Haitian electoral law, created by Presidential decree on February 11, 2005 in consultation with the international community, stipulates that any ballot that is either properly filled out or left blank must be counted as a vote once placed in a ballot box. This stipulation [...] |
2006-02-14 18:20:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE315 |
HAITI ELECTIONS: WHY UNDERVOTES COUNT, WHY THE NDI [...] Article 185 of the Haitian electoral law, created by Presidential decree on February 11, 2005 in consultation with the international community, stipulates that any ballot that is either properly filled out or left blank must be counted as a vote once placed in a ballot box. This stipulation [...] |
2006-02-14 18:24:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE316 |
HAITI ELECTIONS: PROVINCES DID NOT GIVE PREVAL A [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: While Presidential front-runner Rene Preval holds a clear majority in the West department and a very slight majority in the Southeast, he has not established a majority in the remaining eight departments. However, he is leading in all departments except the Northwest, where [...] |
2006-02-14 20:03:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE336 |
PRESIDENTIAL VOTE COUNT ENDED, OTHER COUNTING [...] Summary: MINUSTAH reports that it has stopped counting presidential ballots, and Provisional Electoral Council Director General Jacques Bernard says the CEP will formally announce results soon. Meanwhile, vote counting for the deputy and senate races began February 16; MINUSTAH has already fi [...] |
2006-02-17 20:51:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE337 |
REACTION TO PREVAL'S FIRST-ROUND VICTORY [...] Summary: Political and civil society leaders have largely resigned themselves to the CEP's decision to declare Rene Preval's victory with 51.15 percent of the vote in the first round of voting. Leslie Manigat declared the decision a "coup d 'etat," but said that he would do nothing against [...] |
2006-02-17 20:55:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM PKAO HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE348 |
CEP PRESSURED TO ANOINT PREVAL UNTIL HIS [...] (C) Summary: Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) General Director Jacques Bernard and members of the CEP report that they came under extreme pressure from the executive to "throw the election" to Rene Preval as vote counting for the Haitian presidential race came to a close February 12 and 13. [...] |
2006-02-22 13:53:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE355 |
MINUSTAH PROJECTS ONE WEEK DELAY FOR SECOND ROUND [...] MINUSTAH officials project a delay of one week from the previously announced date of March 19 for the second round run-off election. They blame the slippage primarily on the delay in vote tabulation, caused by public demonstrations in reaction to the presidential vote count (ref B). They als [...] |
2006-02-22 20:40:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO EAID HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE365 |
MAJORITY OF CEP PLEDGE SUPPORT FOR BERNARD [...] (C) Summary: Six of nine members of Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) reaffirmed their support for the CEP's Director General Jacques Bernard in a public letter February 23. CEP president chief of staff Duchatelier told poloff February 22 that Jacques Bernard was indispensable for [...] |
2006-02-24 17:14:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO EAID HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE397 |
L'ESPWA ADVANCES 37 DEPUTY CANDIDATES TO SECOND [...] (SBU) Based on the most recent information available to post from the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) and partial results provided by MINUSTAH staff last week, post provides the following summary of results. The top two candidates in each of the 99 districts advance to the second round, [...] |
2006-03-03 16:15:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PKAO HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE410 |
HAITI ELECTIONS: DATE FOR SECOND ROUND UNDER [...] (U) The Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) is meeting this afternoon, March 3, to discuss when to hold the second round parliamentary elections. Only one seat in the Chamber of Deputies of the total 129 legislative seats contested was won in the February 7 general election. Following the de [...] |
2006-03-03 20:12:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO EAID HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE418 |
CEP DIRECTOR GENERAL RETURNS TO HAITI [...] (C) Summary: After two weeks of uncertainty, Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) Director General (DG) Jacques Bernard returned to Haiti on March 5 to re-assume his position. A delegation of CEP members headed by CEP President Max Mathurin met him at the airport. In Bernard's absence, six [...] |
2006-03-06 15:47:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO EAID HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE45 |
NEW DATES FOR HAITIAN ELECTION SET, FIRST ROUND [...] Summary: After a weekend of political maneuvering, the first round of national elections is set for February 7, the second round for March 12, the inauguration for March 29, and the local and municipal elections for April 30. Elections machinations began January 6 when the Provisional Electora [...] |
2006-01-09 20:33:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE467 |
HAITI ELECTIONS: DONORS PUSH FOR EARLY SECOND [...] Summary: Donors met March 7 with CEP and Minustah representatives to urge that the calendar for the second round legislative elections be established as soon as possible. Minustah and the CEP discussed a possible timeline for completion of the contestation process and necessary logistical p [...] |
2006-03-09 18:07:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO EAID HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE476 |
HAITI ELECTIONS: ANNOUNCEMENT OF SECOND ROUND [...] (C) Charge d'Affaires met with Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) President Max Mathurin and CEP Councilor Josefa Gauthier over breakfast March 10. Mathurin confirmed that a press conference was scheduled for noon March 10 to announce the electoral calendar. The CEP has already prepared a [...] |
2006-03-10 17:10:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO EAID HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE500 |
ARRIVAL AT POST - AMBASSADOR JANET A. SANDERSON [...] Ambassador Janet A. Sanderson arrived at post on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 at 12:57 p.m. local time and assumed charge. 2. The Certificate of Transfer relinquishing charge of Embassy Port-au-Prince from Charge Griffiths to Janet A. Sanderson was signed and is filled with post's permanent [...] |
2006-03-15 18:12:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM PKAO HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE543 |
HAITI ELECTION NEWS ROUND-UP [...] (C) Summary: The Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) is completing review of claims arising from the February 7 General Election and should finalize candidate lists for second round Senate and Chamber of Deputy candidates by March 20. According to CEP Director General Jacques Bernard, at l [...] |
2006-03-23 19:50:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO EAID HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE595 |
USAID-MINUSTAH PARTNERSHIP ADVANCES PEACE IN [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified: please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Summary. This message summarizes the Haiti Transition Initiative (HTI), the USAID sponsored program to reduce violence and restore stability in Port au Prince's most volatile slums. USAID's Office of Transition [...] |
2006-04-03 14:12:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL PKAO MARR ASEC HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE612 |
UNDER SECRETARY SHINER,S VISIT TO HAITI [...] Summary. Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs, Josette S. Shiner, visited Haiti March 24 - 25 as part of a review of UN assistance programs. She traveled to a rural township in northeast Haiti where the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) assists with [...] |
2006-04-04 17:46:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM PKAO HA |
| 06PORTAUPRINCE92 |
HAITIAN GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES ELECTIONS COMMITTEE [...] (U) Interim government President Boniface Alexandre announced January 11 the Committee of Guarantee (COG) for Elections. In part reading from the executive order that will create the COG, Alexandre explained that the committee, comprised of members of political parties (five) and civil societ [...] |
2006-01-12 21:31:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA |