The Security Council has sent five missions to Haiti, pulling them whenever it thinks stability has been attained. It needs to send one for twenty years with the power to make decisions
By Haiti Democracy Project in the Washington Post. Washington has pulled out so many of the supports that Jovenel Moïse will be lucky to make it through his term. It has completely dismantled the protective edifice that three U.S. presidents erected for Haitian presidents over many years
Its potent mission withdrawn since 2017, the U.N. is reduced to exhorting the Haitian authorities to greater efforts well beyond their capacity and will. The Haiti Democracy Project loudly urged the U.N. to stay in 2017, while other pundits nodded off. It should be redeployed with a longer and stronger mandate, but given U.S. quarrels with a couple of permanent members, approval may not be automatic
The Haitians say, “Constitutions are paper, bayonets steel.” But constitutions are also replaceable. Latin American countries have replaced them an average eleven times since independence
The U.N. women’s program will take responsibility for training prospective women candidates in the Nord-Est Department
Medical brigade of 348 doctors and nurses