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    Opinion: Haiti's Troubles Must Not Be Forgotten

    Haitians are angry about rising costs, austerity measures and corruption. Haiti's democracy needs improvement, argue researchers Athena Kolbe and Robert Muggah.
    by Athena Kolbe Mar 04, 2019 4 minutes
    A tire placed by a small group of demonstrators burns on a street in the Pétion-Ville area of the Haitan capital Port-au-Prince, on Feb. 17.

    Athena Kolbe is an assistant professor of social work at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.

    Robert Muggah is the co-founder of the Igarapé Institute in Brazil, and the SecDev Group in Canada.

    The stench of burning tires is hard to escape. Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, is again littered with smoldering barricades. Towns across the country are in lockdown. Over a million people took to the streets this month in protest, effectively shutting the nation of nearly 11 million people down. Demonstrations turned violent amid accusations that Haitian officials pillaged a multibillion-dollar Petrocaribe development fund subsidized by Venezuela.

    The opposition is calling for President Jovenel Moise to resign. But Moise is defiant, that he "will not leave the country in the hands of armed

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