Globe and Mail - Return of Aristide risks further election turmoil

Former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide was poised to return to his homeland on Friday after seven years of exile, a stunning and potentially destabilizing twist that comes only 48 hours before a vote to pick the country’s next president…

“He’s a polarizing figure,” said Philip Oxhorn, a political scientist at McGill University in Montreal and director of the Institute for the Study of International Development. “And that can’t be good. Why is he coming back now? Why throw a wrench into the works when the works are already fragile, so close to the election?”