Practically in Haiti and especially in Port-au-Prince there is an undeclared war. With the exception of residents who are trying to take matters into their own hands, no one else – neither inside nor outside the borders – seems willing to intervene.<\/p>\n\n\n
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As the sun goes down, the only people roaming the capital are armed thugs, with the rest of the population cowering in their homes. It’s a new regime of terror, even for those who lived through the horrors of the dictatorship of the Duvaliers – father “Papa Doc” and son “Baby Doc” – from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Before and after that bloody period – with at least 50,000 deaths – there were two American invasions of the island. In essence, Haiti never recovered, going from one crisis to another, with political instability, civil strife and social breakdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Until the killer earthquakes of 7 on the Richter scale in 2010 and 7.2 on the Richter scale in 2021 literally and figuratively leveled everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After last year’s “dark” assassination of President Jovenel Moise by American mercenaries of Colombian and Haitian origin – a case with a lot of political and business intrigue, with “edges” from Haiti to the USA – practically nothing works in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The head of state is on paper Prime Minister Ariel Henri. Of questionable legality and legitimacy, he cannot even approach his headquarters in Port-au-Prince, where gangs are rampant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Elections have been held in Haiti since 2016, following the election of businessman-politician Jovenel Moise to the presidency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The country no longer has a single democratically elected incumbent. Parliament does not exist, not even as a building, since it too collapsed in the earthquakes. The economy and public services have been paralyzed. Millions are starving and diseases such as cholera are taking their toll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Criminal disinterest<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n About 5.2 million people – almost half of Haiti’s population – are in need of humanitarian assistance. Almost three million of them are children.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n But in the absence of sufficient international funding, the UN’s World Food Program announced earlier this week that it was cutting humanitarian aid to the island nation by 25% for this month. In words, the international community agrees that Haiti urgently needs help. In practice, however, there is no diplomatic consensus as to its form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The acting president of Haiti has asked the UN since last October for the authorization to send an international military stabilization force to the country. Amidst geopolitical rivalries, the outlook is troubling. Such a move would mean supporting a government with little legitimacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Previous international missions to the island nation have meanwhile been mired in scandal and ended in abject failure. In late June, the UN human rights expert in Haiti, William O’Neill, called for an arms embargo on the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “The survival of an entire nation is at stake,” he stressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since the weapons used in Haiti are mostly American-made, the proposal for an embargo finds agreement with China, a permanent member of the UN Security Council. But Washington – which has thrown almost all its geopolitical “weight” into the war in Ukraine and China – prefers to “play” on the issue of Haiti\u2026 delays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During the recent CARICOM summit – of the Caribbean countries – the US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, practically threw “the ball into the platform”, stressing that the US is working to find a country willing to have a “leading role” in such an international mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even funding such a mission is considered highly dubious, as it requires Security Council approval. Now in Port-au-Prince fears are openly expressed about the danger of civil war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A former possession of the Spanish and then the French, Haiti became in 1804 only the second country in the Western Hemisphere to declare…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[820,390],"tags":[4509,4508,4510],"class_list":["post-14655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-politics","tag-criminal-gangs","tag-haiti","tag-starvation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14659,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14655\/revisions\/14659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-92.png\")
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