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Counting ballots in Port-au-Prince. Photo by Michael Levy
Haiti
Haitians have been challenging authoritarian rule since 1986. In 1990, Jean-Bertrand Aristide was elected president, but a coup ousted him seven months later. A U.S. intervention reinstated Aristide in 1994. Rene Preval was elected president in 1996, until Aristide won a second term in 2000 and a political crisis developed on grounds that the elections were fraudulent. In 2004, Aristide left Haiti amid a rebel insurrection. Although democratic rule was restored in 2006, bitter political divisions persist.
Civil Society, Election Observation, Democracy Assistance, Civic Education, Governance
Nhelly Saleh-Ramirez
Nhelly Saleh-Ramirez has over 13 years of experience designing, implementing and managing small and large-scale operations in complex and political sensitive environments.
Democracy Assistance
Democracy assistance can be defined as the legal, technical and logistic support provided to electoral laws, processes and institutions.
Brazil
Since the end of military rule in 1985, Brazil has undertaken numerous political reforms on its path towards democratic consolidation. Elections have become increasingly free and fair as judged by international standards, and the 2002 election resulted in the ascendance of the main opposition party, the Worker’s Party.
IFES has been involved in the democracy movement in Latin America and the Caribbean since 1989. In that time, IFES has worked in more than 20 nations, strengthening democracy.
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