The international community knows how to organize elections. But it's not good at sticking around to build functioning democratic institutions.

This really created a firestorm. This was just a case of power politics with the exile community versus the baseball league and baseball won.

If you expect Haiti to have any kind of democracy in the future, congress has to play a major role.

The UN is going to stay in Haiti for a long time. It should be much more involved in improving healthcare and education than peacekeeping.

There's no staff. There's very little in the way of physical facilities. This is basically starting from scratch.

Baker has a strong radio presence and has run a surprisingly strong campaign in the countryside. But there are still very deep political fault lines in Haiti that extend from Aristide.