The Haitian activist is a transparent liar. In Haitian districts in Miami, violations of election law were rampant, with activists inside polling places pushing pieces of paper into the hands of voters in line by voting machines, which told them whom to vote for. I don't doubt for a moment that this woman's hands are dirty. Who are the "they" she talks about?
The Chinese activist from New York needs to fess up about why the translations are so bad. I used to work in Chinatown, for a summer youth education program. My boss was a young woman who had never finished her bachelor's degree, and had no teaching experience. And she was as nasty as she was incompetent. She had an uncle or something with a connection to the organization. And so it is, with the translator jobs. Competence plays no role in who gets hired; it's all straight-up, political patronage (see also, translators, Haitian).