Admiration

• March is Reading Month is a time for the whole family to come together to rediscover the magic of books and help inspire a lifelong love of reading.
• If you are looking for ways to make the most of March is Reading Month, Alexandra Brown, an educational technology specialist and lead librarian with National Heritage Academies , shares some creative ideas.
• Brown also suggests checking out local libraries for reading month events, joining book swaps with friends, and encouraging children to create their own stories inspired by wordless books.
• Whether it's experimenting with recipe books, delving into graphic novels, or enjoying audiobooks while traveling, there are endless ways to connect over books during March is Reading Month.

• Over the past two weeks, Haiti’s powerful gangs have plunged a country already on life support into a coma.
• He is an unelected leader, taking power after Haiti’s president was assassinated in 2021, and has presided over the country’s economic freefall.
• But Chérizier has emerged from the armed insurrection as the most formidable leader in Haiti, and some suspect he may have political aspirations of his own.
• Haiti’s history is replete with political leaders with very dubious pasts, and the country’s citizens are used to their violent machinations.
• According to Chérizier, his brand of violent street politics is very much in tune with the need of the hour.

Political acumen

• The current political instability in Haiti has largely been manufactured by Chérizier and the gangs he leads as a cleverly thought-out survival strategy.
• So, on the one hand, Chérizier’s decision to stir up a political uprising can be seen as a planned strategy to scare off any external forces seeking to impose order.
• Chérizier has used Henry’s unpopularity and controversial decision to deploy foreign police officers in the nation to drum up a nationwide violent fervour for political change.
• With Henry now out of the political scene, the chance that Haitians will be forced to embrace such an outcome may not be far-fetched after all.

Amalendu Misra has received funding from
British Academy /
Nuffield Foundation

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