By Frantz Duval in le Nouvelliste. All the actors are milling around aimlessly. Canada is wondering how to help the Haitian police. The U.N. Security Council’s resolution is marking time. The Haitian government, after getting the foreigners to sanction the bad actors, isn’t proceeding against them. The Haitian politicians are afraid to break with them. And the gangs know no life beyond shooting up the population. We are about to blow one more opportunity.
They pull the visas and freeze the assets of two top senators long suspected of assassinations and drug-running. The Haiti Democracy Project has had its run-ins with both
Canada is struggling to decide whether to lead an international rescue mission to Haiti knowing that it will be accused of interfering in Haiti’s affairs
Canada may lead an international operation to aid the Haitian police. Meanwhile, those police used armored cars just provided by Canada to retake the country’s major fuel depot
As if inspired by the news of help on the way, they swept into the Varreux fuel terminal today, chasing out the gangs that had blockaded it since September. It has 70 percent of Haiti’s fuel. The lack of fuel propelled cholera and near-famine conditions across the country
As plans firmed up for a Canadian-led contingent to aid the Haitian police, we sent a delegation to urge the United States on to greater efforts to save Haitians from cholera and famine
Deaths are spiking amidst the crisis. “Only God knows my pain,” said Viliene Enfant at a Docteurs sans Frontières clinic. the body of her 22-year-old son lay on the floor wrapped in a white plastic bag
Roberson Alphonse, prizewinning journalist in Haiti and member of our Thirty-Seventh Business Delegation to Washington in 2015, was shot in a terror attack in Port-au-Prince yesterday in both arms and is recovering at a hospital there. His car was riddled with bullets. He was saved by a Good Samaritan bystander
The outbreaks of cholera are in the slums, where conditions are unsanitary, where there is no clean water. Yet without fuel we can’t get it to them — hospital administrator Jean William Pape
For the hundreds of thousands of children already famished, the spread of cholera is a death sentence — UNICEF. That’s why the Haiti Democracy Project, despite our aversion to foreign boots on the ground, has endorsed an international rescue mission. Most Haitians feel the same way
Russia and China expressed reservations about sending a police force, citing opposition groups that have criticized foreign interference. Both, however, acknowledged the gravity of the situation
By Haiti Democracy Project in the Washington Post. Haiti’s request for multinational police backup for the Haitian police should be immediately granted so that the port can be cleared and the rapidly-spreading cholera epidemic checked
By Loic Tassé, le Journal de Montréal. It is illusory to think that foreign forces can save Haiti from the corruption and incompetence of its own elites. Rather they should aid the minuscule Haitian army, which is better placed to restore order — even at the cost of a military dictatorship.
By Frantz Duval in le Nouvelliste, October 15, 2022. While the international actors perhaps put together a mission, what is happening here in Haiti? Click on the orange to find out
On October 14 they break into the north gate and make off with four tanker trucks and drums carrying twenty-eight thousand gallons of gasoline
Understands and supports the difficult but responsable decision to seek foreign support against the resurgence of cholera and the gangs’ month-long blockage of the country’s principal fuel depot. And because the police despite their best efforts can’t make headway against the gangs
A foreign intervention, if it comes, should not be a blank check. It should be in the service of the country, not the government in power, leading to a transition government. Excerpt from article by Jean-Marie Théodat, Sorbonne University
Historian Georges Michel: “It’s a foreign force that has to come to clean up the place because we can’t do it. To pacify the country you’ve got to import a foreign army.”
The Haiti Democracy Project is sending a mission to the State Department and other reaches of the bureaucracy to plead for a robust rescue mission to free up clean water, food, and medication for masses of Haitians now in the path of a cholera epidemic
81% des enquêtes répondent positivement à l’arrivé de la force étrangère pour chasser les gangs illégaux