Haiti Democracy Project

The Haiti Democracy Project is "a right-wing think tank founded by Republican State Department and other officials and by Haitian elites. I believe that the primary financing came from a guy named Rudolph Boulos (a doctor in Haiti, a very strong supporter of right-wing causes and a virulent anti-Lavalas activist), and is a large recipient of USAID funds." (Brian Concannon, Director of the Institute for Democracy and Justice in Haiti, Feb. 16, 2006).

HDP was launched on November 19, 2002 at the Brookings Institute, in Washington DC. (Broadcast by CSPAN). Attending the event are some questionable figures including Stanley Lucas and Olivier Nadal. Lucas is the point man in Haiti for the USAID-financed International Republican Institute, which is providing training and funds to anti-Aristide Haitian rebels in the Dominican Republic (2001-2004). Nadal is a Miami-based Haitian businessman and the former president of the Haitian Chamber of Commerce. (from news item: Haiti Democracy Project, Nov. 20, 2004) Nadal is implicated in a peasant massacre that occurred in the Haitian town of Piatre.

Personnel and affiliated operators

 * Timothy Carney -- head of HDP (former US ambassador to Haiti; he then headed the Ministry of Mines in Iraq under the "Coalition Provisional Authority" to return as the current (2006) US ambassador to Haiti.) (his wife is also associated with HDP).
 * Vicki Butler
 * Henry F. Carey Georgia State University
 * Clotilde Charlot Former vice-president, Haitian Association of Voluntary Agencies
 * Lionel Delatour Center for Free Enterprise and Democracy (CLED)
 * Charles Manus
 * Amb. Orlando Marville Chief, OAS electoral mission to Haiti, 2000
 * James Morrell Project executive director
 * Amb. Lawrence Pezzullo U.S. special envoy for Haiti, 1993-94
 * Amb. Ernest H. Preeg U.S. ambassador to Haiti, 1981-83
 * Amelia Shaw -- featured "journalist". All her articles about Haiti appear on HDP's website.

Associates (as of April 2007)

 * Monique Meleance, C.P.A., accountant
 * James R. Morrell, executive director. Co-founder and former research director of the Center for International Policy, Washington
 * Claire Sturm, associate.
 * Terry Thielen, associate. Former project director for Creative Associates in Haiti.

Founders
From HDP's website:
 * Rudolph Boulos -- Pharval Laboratories
 * Clotilde Charlot Former vice-president, Haitian Association of Voluntary Agencies
 * Lionel Delatour Center for Free Enterprise and Democracy (CLED)
 * Charles Manus
 * James Morrell Project executive director

Directors (as of April 2007)
Source
 * Chairman - Amb. Ernest H. Preeg - U.S. ambassador to Haiti, 1981-83
 * Rudolph H. Boulos
 * Victoria A. Butler
 * Henry F. Carey - Georgia State University
 * Lionel Delatour - Center for Free Enterprise and Democracy (CLED)
 * Ira M. Lowenthal
 * Orlando Marville - Chief, OAS electoral mission to Haiti, 2000
 * James Morrell - Project executive director
 * Amb. Lawrence Pezzullo - U.S. special envoy for Haiti, 1993-94

Contact

 * Web: http://www.haitipolicy.org