IS THERE HOPE FOR HAITI?
Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell of Grenada, President Irfaan Ali of Guyana, Prime Minister Ariel Henri of Haiti, and Prime Minister Andrew Holness of Jamaica.
Foreign Minister Fred Mitchell of The Bahamas has repeatedly warned the public and all the protagonists in the latest Haitian drama in fixing the government there. Do not get suckered into believing that you can fix the problems of Haiti. It cannot be done. The best you can do is to encourage and guide and support, maybe cajole, but the regular democracies of the western hemisphere have nothing in a normative way that helps craft a solution in Haiti.
You have never met a more intractable set of individuals than the Haitian elites.
The only thing they can agree on is who should not be President. They can never agree on who should be.
One year when the former president Jean Bertrand Aristide was running for office, there were 136 candidates for President. Just goes to show.
That’s the prologue to this piece.
Fast forward now to Jamaica last week where the Haitian civil society sat down with the Caricom leaders, the Americans and the EU, and the French and agreed on a civil pact that would lead the way for a new Prime Minister and fresh elections. This is what they all said they wanted. The agreement was made.
The agreement was to have been executed within 24 hours but hasn’t yet gotten off the ground because before the ink was dry, the elites in Haiti and their surrogate thugs were spewing their guts to say that Caricom cannot give them orders and they don’t work for Caricom. Mind you Caricom was only the facilitator, not the dictator.
Sigh.
It’s like these people just don’t want a solution. They just like to fight and row.
It has always been the position from this side that perhaps the best thing to do is containment. Simply bottle them up in their country, let them shoot and kill one another until they get tired and then maybe then, maybe they will come to a sensible decision about governing their country.
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