And the winner is...

Michel Martelly! Haiti has a new president....and I learned about it hours before the rest of Jacmel on the NY Times website, haha. People were freaking out this morning because apparently US Marine planes were flying all around Port-au-Prince and everyone thought that for whatever reason, the US would try to instate the other candidate, because Michel Martelly wants to do things like kick out the UN and drastically change importing/exporting.

He won with a 66% majority. Most of the people I know refused to vote because they thought that one candidate was unqualified and basically an idiot (see cocaine doing, cross-dressing, rock-star/gangster shenanigans), and the other was just like the rest of the fancily-educated, very rich people who had always run Haiti and done it no good. It reminded me a lot of the Bush vs. Kerry election. And it had the same result. In the end, the guy who won was the guy that people thought they could have a beer with. When word hit Jacmel that he won, motos honked and sped down the street and excited citizens paraded. People are really happy that someone "like them" without a college education and who came out of nothing could win a presidential election, and they have hope that maybe he can do something for their country, since no one else has. I can't say that I blame them for trying something new.