MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
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"Sweet Micky" Is Haiti's Next President: Democrat or Demagogue?
By artappraiser on Tue, 04/05/2011 - 9:01am |By Tim Padgett, Global Spin @ Time.com, April 5, 2011
When Haiti's presidential election got underway last summer, the big question was how large a role the nation's large and disaffected youth vote would play. We now know the answer: Huge. Half of Haiti's population of 9 million is under the age of 25, and Monday evening that cohort's candidate, flamboyant former rap singer Michel “Sweet Micky” Martelly, was called the winner of the March 20 runoff vote. According to preliminary results, Martelly defeated former First Lady Mirlande Manigat 67%-to-32%, one of the largest margins of victory ever in a Haiti presidential contest. Official results will be announced April 16, but Martelly looks set to be sworn in next month.
But do Haiti's youth really know the man they just made the next president of a nation still struggling to recover from a massive earthquake that killed 250,000 people last year, and which needs sound leadership now more than at perhaps any other moment in its history?....
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Poor, poor Haiti.
Here's hoping Sweet Micky's dictatorship will be more like Franco's than Duvalier's. Doubt it though. He is too old at the outset.
by EmmaZahn on Tue, 04/05/2011 - 10:55am
Sometimes it's tempting to almost give up trying to find reason and just say there's s curse on a culture, as in poor poor Congo.
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/05/2011 - 4:11pm
A few years ago, when Sudan was the trending hot spot I looked it up in the CIA Factbook and noticed the median aga seemed very young. I think it was just a little less than 17. I wondered how that compared and lucklily the CIA Factbook includes a field listing that makes it easy. Just about every then hot spot had a very young median age. Gaza and Uganda being the youngest.
Haiti's median age is currently 21.4 and the Congos 17 and 17.4. Not countries for old men people. No way should they be expected to govern themselves in traditional ways when they have few elders around to teach those ways. They need a benevolent dictator or trustee for a generation or two to grow into self-government. The dictator part is easy. It is the benevolence that is hard.
by EmmaZahn on Tue, 04/05/2011 - 5:07pm
Great point.
I am a pretty strong believer of the "wisdom of old age" thing, especially as regards a populace that doesn't have a lot of formal education, but also in general. Don't consder myself an oldster yet (maybe I should
) but I have lived long enough to see a lot of examples of that on my own, people getting wiser over time simply by interacting with others in numbers, tempering irrational views or beliefs or prejudices learned through family or culture or religion or whatever that they had started out life with.
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/05/2011 - 7:49pm
I wonder if Vodun as practiced here is as original as Wicca, that is, almost wholly reinvented.
I will have to put that on my list of things ot look up. :)
by EmmaZahn on Tue, 04/05/2011 - 5:12pm
An alternate point of view:
http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/2112-...
by we are stardust on Tue, 04/05/2011 - 11:48am
From Tyler Cowen: Here are music videos by Sweet Micky, the new President of Haiti. I’ve seen him in concert three times and it was always enjoyable.
Cowen is economics professor at George Mason University.
by EmmaZahn on Tue, 04/05/2011 - 12:08pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/05/2011 - 7:47pm