A proposal to install new leadership in Haiti appeared to be crumbling Wednesday as some political parties rejected the plan to create a presidential council that would manage the transition.
The panel would be responsible for selecting an interim prime minister and a council of ministers that would attempt to chart a new path for the Caribbean country that has been overrun by gangs. The violence has closed schools and businesses and disrupted daily life across Haiti.
Jean Charles Moïse, an ex-senator and presidential candidate who has teamed up with former rebel leader Guy Philippe, held a news conference Wednesday to announce his rejection of the proposed council backed by the international community.
Moïse insisted that a three-person presidential council he recently created with Philippe and a Haitian judge should be implemented.
Meanwhile, a former senator, Sorel Jacinthe, and a young politician, Jorchemy Jean Baptiste, both supporters of Prime Minister Ariel Henry and the Dec. 21 coalition that backs him, called Radio Caraïbes separately Wednesday to argue why their choice for the transitional council was the best one.
Jean Charles Moïse, an ex-senator and presidential candidate who has teamed up with former rebel leader Guy Philippe, held a news conference Wednesday to announce his rejection of the proposed council backed by the international community. His ally Philippe, who helped lead a successful revolt in 2004 against former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and was recently released from a U.S. prison after pleading guilty to money laundering, said no Haitian should accept any proposal from the international community.
I'm sure this story is just a beachhead to establish how it's the US fault. What's happening to Haiti is terrible, but isn't what's happening in Haiti pretty much always terrible? Why is France never on the hook for this disaster?
@YakHarperDemocrat2mos2MO
The U.S. Marines occupied Haiti for a span of close to two Decades, during the 1st Half of the 20th Century. Then proceeded to support "Papa Doc" Duvalier throughout the 50s & 60s.
"You break it, you buy it"
@HeronChloeDemocrat2mos2MO
Nonsense.
Both the Americans and the French are responsible for the Haitians current problems.
Neither the French nor the Americans can forgive nor forget the Haitians successful violent Black enslaved rebellion.
@UnanimousBenGreen2mos2MO
Try to imagine what it may feel like to be inside the helmet of a Kenyan police officer walking the streets in Haiti's capital.
You don't speak French or their patois version, weapons are everywhere, ordinary citizens are frightened and angry, those with weapons are inclined to shoot first, think later, you are unsure of your own country's plan for how to clean up the mess, your fellow officers who are, like you, trying to do the right thing, whatever it might be.
To make it more interesting, the armed gangs and their bosses know that foreign police officers are going to try to make them lose their power.
@ISIDEWITH2mos2MO
How do you feel about the idea of international involvement in deciding another country's leadership, especially in situations of crisis like in Haiti?
@9KVMQX72mos2MO
Not right for other nations to involve themselves in other countries
@MindEqualityGreen2mos2MO
What a mess, just keep the USA out of there, and block any Haitians from migrating here till they get their organized crime problems locked up, we don't need more street gangs dealing more drugs to this nation's youth, we have big pharma for that.
@ISIDEWITH2mos2MO
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