Here is the news... posted by Richard Seymour

Incroyable:

The election will replace an interim government installed after former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was ousted in a bloody rebellion two years ago. A popularly elected government with a clear mandate from the voters is seen as crucial to avoiding a political and economic meltdown in the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation. Gangs have gone on kidnapping sprees and factories have closed for lack of security.

Aristide inexplicably overthrown, "gangs" just endlessly marauding, factories [sweatshops] closing down, voters strangely convinced that they are being duped: how did it all happen? The international community is at a loss to know what to do with Haiti - everything from aid to foreign invasion has been tried. Somehow the UN has failed in its mission to restore order. The black tide keeps on surging. Burning roadblocks - these people actually seem to want to control their own country. Hotel Montana has been siezed: no swimming pool is safe.

Of course, the crucially missing explanatory links in the chain of events must be replaced: the narrative must be leavened somehow. So, the story is mediated through images. A select choice: orgiastic rioters, carnal, bloodthirsty, and ultimately jealous of elite privileges. Even the simpering holiness of Desmond Tutu cannot bring calm. The White Science of electoral arithmetic disrupted by miasmic voodoo, Black Magic. Were they not kept busy in benign industrial settings making t-shirts and pyjamas for Disney, there'd be a Zombie Holocaust. Damn near was before the International Community Stepped In To Tame The Violence and Restore Order.