Mark Schneider
Mark Schneider
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Elections are clearly not the whole solution. But you can't get a legitimate government that can begin to deal with Haiti's problems and build something out of this failed state without them.
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We've reached a point where the balance now is tilting toward holding the elections. There's less likely to be violence in Haiti's future if they hold elections than if they don't.
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Major problems remain in ensuring credible elections. If they're not resolved, the next government's legitimacy will be in question.
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It's not impossible to hold free and fair elections, but it's going to be very dicey.
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The jury's out on whether this election can bring Bolivia back from the precipice of national collapse or whether it will generate even more political tension and perhaps a break-up of the country.
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Once this is adopted, it would be difficult for the Security Council to turn the other way and to once again close its eyes to flagrant atrocities. We expect this to bring with it early warning systems, so we can prevent a conflict from reaching the point where there would have to be armed intervention.
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It's really an outrageous situation, that any U.S. citizen would be treated like that.
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It was a mess at first. But the people were unbelievable. They waited, they were patient, they didn't leave.
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At this point the entire transition is at risk. Drug traffickers don't want a functioning, effective government with a functioning, effective police force and customs. They have their hooks in the police, and they have their hooks in parts of the transitional government.
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At this point it would be a very polarizing and divisive event that could fatally damage the effort to move Haiti forward.
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This, of course, leads to all kinds of questions about the extent to which choices will increase stratification and gentrification, ... Choosing Schools.
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I've worked in several large companies (e.g., SRI, McGraw-Hill, the United States Postal Service) and never seen anything like it. You couldn't get anything done without filling out a form. There was even a form that you had to fill out when there wasn't any regular form available.
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People don't season enough. You season the raw product so it will permeate into the meat.
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As far as I am concerned, this is a totally bone-headed idea. As it stands now, there are way too many 'no turn on red' signs, most of which serve no obvious purpose. As a pedestrian, I've experienced almost no problems with the turn-on-red law.