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Since late October, tens of thousands in Haiti have poured into the streets to protest delayed elections and demand the resignation of President Michel Martelly. Above, Nov. 18 march. Crowds marched through the capital, Port-au-Prince, Nov. 25 calling for the release of more than two dozen people arrested during recent protests. Martelly, a businessman and former musician, was allied with the U.S.-backed Duvalier dictatorship that held power from 1957 to 1986. There have been no elections in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, since 2011. Demonstrators have dubbed the recent protests “Operation Burkina Faso,” referring to the mass popular demonstrations that drove Blaise Compaoré from power in that West African country in late October. |
| — MAGGIE TROWE |