On April 9, 2024, the Inter-American Dialogue released the report “State Collapse and the Protection of Remittance Payments.” The report, produced by Manuel Orozco, director of the Migration, Remittances, and Development program, and Patrick Springer, program associate, examines the extent to which the current crisis in Haiti can be characterized as state failure. The report examines state failure in Haiti, its effects on the daily lives of Haitians, the Haitian economy, and how it is impacting remittance systems in the country and concludes with a strategy for ensuring successful and safe remittance transfers to the Caribbean nation.
En una entrevista con CNN en Español, Manuel Orozco, director del programa Migración, Remesas y Desarrollo del Diálogo Interamericano, conversó con Gabriela Frías sobre la crisis humanitaria en Haití, sus consecuencias migratorias y la respuesta del gobierno de los Estados Unidos frente a una nueva ola migratoria proyectada.
En una entrevista con CNN en Español, Manuel Orozco, director del programa Migración, Remesas y Desarrollo del Diálogo Interamericano, conversó con Gabriela Frías sobre la crisis migratoria, sus consecuencias electorales en los EEUU y las tendencias y flujos migratorios entre otros temas.
El 24 de octubre, el director del programa de Migración, Remesas y Desarollo del Diálogo Interamericano, Manuel Orozco, conversó con Lucía Pineda Ubau de 100% Noticias sobre los flujos observados de migrantes en el aeropuerto de Managua, Nicaragua en los últimos meses. Orozco observó que el aeropuerto sirve de un puente desde Cuba y Haití hacia los Estados Unidos.
A Latin America Advisor Q&A featuring experts’ views on the potential deployment of Kenyan law enforcement officers to lead a multinational police force in Haiti.
Monique Clesca, Peter Hakim, Erika Guevara-Rosas, Richard Gowan, Martha Doggett, James Morrell
En el podcast En el fin del mundo, Tamara Taraciuk Broner, la directora del Programa sobre Estado de Derecho del Diálogo Interamericano, habló sobre alertas tempranas del declive democrático en América Latina, el rol del sector privado, la política del gobierno de Estados Unidos hacia la región, migración, transición democrática en Venezuela, el modelo de seguridad de Bukele, la influencia de China y más.
The Migration, Remittances, and Development Program published a presentation that delves deeply into how the scale, composition, and nature of migration in the Americas has changed drastically since 2015.
Manuel Orozco spoke with Open Democracy’s Borders and Belonging Podcast about the socio-economic harm done to the countries in the Global South that suffer brain drains as well as the effect of global mobility in an interconnected world.
The Migration, Remittances, and Development Program presented a report addressing the continued increase of annual remittance trends associated to large migration patterns in 2022.
Criminality is ubiquitous in Haitian officialdom. In fact, Haitian politics and government at all levels have become so enmeshed in and dependent on graft, gunrunning, drug smuggling, and gang violence that it is nearly impossible to disentangle them.
The Biden administration’s new border enforcement actions may reduce some but not all migration from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. The measure may have the unintended result of marketing migration to those whose intention to do so was not as strong. This report recommends three differentiated steps the US should consider, including leveraging sanctions, working with the diaspora, and OAS engagement.
As three long-term observers of the country, we argue that a more assertive international response is needed and offer the following road map to help Haiti reset.
A Latin America Advisor Q&A featuring experts’ views on Haiti’s deepening crisis as the country’s last democratically elected institution, the Senate, adjourns with no new members to convene a new term and gangs tighten their grip.
Peter Hakim, Georges Fauriol, Sibylle Fischer, James Morrell
