Political instability, the lasting effects of a devastating earthquake and a cholera epidemic, foreign political meddling, and gang violence have all contributed to serious instability in the country. "You have this situation where the institutions are not working, where the economy is stagnated ... the politics has been extremely volatile. The current government has been challenged by the population. There have been massive accusations of corruption," Robert Fatton, an expert on Haitian politics at the University of Virginia, told NPR. "So you name it, in terms of instability and institutiona...
Robert Fatton Jr, an expert on Haiti at the University of Virginia, agreed that a new election would be a "huge mistake" and said a better goal would be pushing for a government that includes the opposition as well as civil society. "If the international community is to use its power in a wise way, it could compel the government to accept a government of national unity," Fatton said. He acknowledged that Haiti had little precedent for such power-sharing compromises but said: "The fact that Jovenel is dead might in a weird way be an opportunity to force the issue."
Though Haiti has experienced all manner of crises in its modern history — coups, US interventions, a devastating earthquake — the country hadn't seen a presidential assassination in over a century. "I was absolutely shocked," Robert Fatton, a native of Haiti who is an expert on Haitian politics at the University of Virginia, said. "I'm quite a pessimistic guy, but I didn't expect any assassination," Fatton added. "The idea that you have, what are for all practical purposes, foreign mercenaries coming into the country, going to the house of the president, and killing him — that to me was absolu...
“The most important new fact is that apparently the mercenaries were not supposed to kill the president, but arrest him. Why? And who paid them remains an enigma,” Robert Fatton, a professor of government and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia who has written extensively on Haiti, said in an email. “Now whether the mercenaries are lying to the Haitian police is another question.”
Robert Fatton, a Haitian politics expert at the University of Virginia, said gangs were a force to contend with and it isn’t certain Haiti’s security forces can enforce a state of siege. “It’s a really explosive situation,” he said.
(By Rachel Augustine Potter, assistant professor of politics) Nearly six months in, President Biden’s regulatory policy is slowly coming into focus. It is ambitious. The administration has revoked many of Trump’s executive actions on regulation, repealed dozens of regulations issued over the last four years, pledged to use regulatory policy to pursue administration priorities, promised to incorporate distributional consequences into regulatory analysis, and selected an ideologically-progressive regulatory team. Biden has also ordered the Office of Management and Budget to “determine an appropr...
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New Darden Scholarship Initiative Aimed At Attracting Diverse Candidates To PE, VC & Hedge Fund Jobs
It’s no secret that MBAs who land jobs in private equity, venture capital or hedge funds are among the most highly paid graduates of business school. But those lucrative positions often prove elusive to both women and underrepresented minorities. To address those shortfalls, the University of Virginia’s Darden School Foundation is launching a new scholarship fund and career program to encourage and promote diverse leadership in those fields. The Breakthrough Scholars Program will target an annual cohort of up to a dozen students who apply to either Darden’s full-time MBA or Executive MBA progr...
The University of Virginia School of Law is launching a new criminal justice reform project. Project for Informed Reform is set to begin in the spring. Students will work with experts to research and investigate criminal justice issues and make data and policy recommendations.
University of Virginia Department of Medicine Chair Dr. Mitch Rosner is adding a new bobblehead to his collection. UVA President Jim Ryan and Provost Liz Magill presented Rosner with a bobblehead based on his likeness. UVA Infectious Disease Expert Doctor Costi Sifri also got one. The bobbleheads are the university’s way of thanking Rosner and Sifri for their work during the coronavirus pandemic.
The leading site on the east coast for the study of Mormonism is now in Charlottesville. The University of Virginia Library Collections recently received a donation of more than 10,000 materials covering Mormonism’s entire history. “It’s an extraordinarily large library of 10 to 11,000 volumes, many of which are unique in collection. You see the evolution of their belief system and this is truly a rare aspect of this collection,” Kathleen Flake, Richard Lyman Bushman Professor of Mormon Studies, said.
The University of Virginia, founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, has a library rather than a chapel placed in its center—a radical idea at the time, as “universities were structured around the church,” the school’s website reads. Today, the UVA has 12 libraries and is adding a new donation to the UVA Library collections: more than 10,000 books and other print materials on the study of “Mormonism.” This study includes materials not only pertaining to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but other groups that broke away from the Church.
Many know that Thomas Jefferson was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, but fewer may know that Jefferson’s participation in the founding of the University of Virginia was among the accomplishments for which he wanted most to be remembered. He participated heavily in the design of the buildings and campus including the unique choice to put a library, rather than the customary chapel, at its center. The University has since built many more libraries and among the newest additions to its collection is a unique donation of 10,000 books and print materials related to “Mormonis...
In the heat of the summer, he dons a pressed-wool tricorn hat, a white, billowy-sleeved shirt, a red waistcoat, a white-silk neckerchief, white breeches that reach just below the knee, gray stockings and straight last shoes. Grasping a brass handbell and a cloth scroll spooled on wooden handles, he booms, “Oyez, oyez, oyez!” And crowds snap to attention. [UVA Ph.D. graduate] Benjamin Fiore-Walker, 52, is Alexandria’s town crier, who for 10 years has welcomed visitors, led parades, opened events and introduced officials in his hometown.
(Commentary) Michelle Obama can read you her “Becoming,” just as Simon Callow will dazzle with Roald Dahl’s “The Twits” – the author’s voice as rich as the actor’s craft. But is either the equal of reading? Researchers say no, or not quite. Daniel Willingham, a UVA professor of psychology, reports how words arrayed on the page are vital for formative readers to comprehend narrative, absorbing spatial cues to reinforce story and boost memory.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland has struggled to convey his message, according to former law enforcement officials, watching as his agenda was repeatedly subsumed by headlines about politically fraught matters left over from the Trump administration. “The question for Garland is whether righting the ship of the department is mutually exclusive from moving on from Trump,” said Barbara Perry, a presidential historian at UVA’s Miller Center.
Mike Vasil isn’t used to this. It’s only been a couple of weeks, but he usually doesn’t get the luxury of spending an elongated period of time during the summer at his home in Wellesley. Fresh off his junior season at the University of Virginia, the highly-touted, hard-throwing right-hander expects his summers to take place elsewhere in the future. The exact location is unknown at the moment, but Vasil will gain clarity on his next destination when the three-day MLB draft commences on Sunday.
In Virginia, Andrew Abbott is considered to be the best baseball player available. Abbott, a left-handed pitcher who played at the University of Virginia, has a fastball that sits in the low-90s and throws a 12-to-6 curveball that might be better than his fastball. Abbott struck out 162 in 106 2/3 innings this spring, third-best in Division I baseball.
If you enter Roots Natural Kitchen at 939 W. Grace St. on any given day, chances are it’s bustling with people, from college students in line creating their own salads to delivery drivers grabbing brown paper bags filled with grain bowls. Located in the heart of the Virginia Commonwealth University area, the fast-casual concept with its own ordering app made its Richmond debut three summers ago and has since garnered a faithful following. Originally launched in Charlottesville, Roots was the vision of young business-savvy UVA graduates Alberto Namnum and co-founder Alvaro Anspach.
(Book review by Rory McAlevy, who is studying archaeology and history and is currently an intern at the Naval Historical Foundation) How do you explore the last 150 years of British seafaring history in just one book? One shipwreck at a time, according to the author of “Breaking Seas, Broken Ships: People, Shipwrecks & Britain, 1854-2007.” Ian Friel followed “Britain and the Ocean Road,” a deft and historically sound coverage of the history of British maritime history from the Middle Ages to the Victorian period, with this work which carries the narrative into recent years.