Like the other aspects representative democracy, the Magna Carta has never been integrated as a framework and compass of the social order and the rules of the political game . Haitian political life has passed between the instrumentalization of justice, the derivations and manipulations of the principles of the rule of law, the distortion of individual freedoms and, above all, the looting of public resources . In addition , corruption has turned government Iceland Phone Number List management into a true system of collusion between political representatives and a monopolistic private sector with mafia extensions. The result has been a caricature of the Iceland Phone Number List democratic system mounted on the springs of the old autocratic -clientelist system. The development of this process of manipulation of the liberal-democratic regime took place under the high surveillance and decisive influence of the United States.
As supervisor of the departure Iceland Phone Number List of dictator Jean Claude Duvalier on February 7, 1986, the United States was also in charge of dictating the adoption Iceland Phone Number List and rejection of laws and regulations, as well as proposing the public policies that shaped the new regime. The total tariff opening (since 1987 the highest rates applied to imports do not exceed 10%), the absolute lack of protection of the agricultural economyculture and restrictions on Iceland Phone Number List the development and professionalization of the Police are some of the results of US monitoring. The electoral history since the 1990s is, without a doubt, the one that best illustrates the external responsibility for the collapse of the country's political system .
On November 28, 1987, during the first elections after Duvalier's departure, a real massacre took place. Just a few hours after the voting began, Duvalierist and military groups fired in cold blood at rows of voters waiting their turn to vote. Only in 1990, and Iceland Phone Number List thanks to the demands of the organized citizenry, free elections were held with a participation of more than 70% of the voters. Jean Bertrand Aristide, a former Catholic priest and Iceland Phone Number List promoter of Liberation Theology, became the Haitian presidency. Aristide's term lasted only nine months. A military coup brought down the government of the Lavalas movement and inaugurated a period of control and protection of Haitian democracy by regional and international institutions linked to the United States.