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Les soldats étrangers n'engageront pas de combat direct avec les gangs en Haïti

La question de l’implication des soldats de la force multinationale dans le combat direct contre les gangs armés en Haïti a été clarifiée par Leslie Voltaire, représentant de Fanmi Lavalas au Conseil présidentiel de transition. Dans une déclaration diffusée sur France 24 le mardi 21 mai, Leslie Voltaire a souligné que ce sont les Haïtiens eux-mêmes qui affronteront directement les gangs…

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry announced Tuesday that he would resign once a transitional presidential council is created, bowing to international pressure to make way for new leadership in the country overwhelmed by violent gangs.

Henry made the announcement hours after Caribbean leaders and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met in Jamaica to discuss a solution to halt Haiti’s spiraling crisis and agreed to a joint proposal to establish a transitional council.

“The government that I’m running cannot remain insensitive in front of this situation. There is no sacrifice that is too big for our country,” Henry said in a recorded statement. “The government I’m running will remove itself immediately after the installation of the council.”

Henry has been unable to enter Haiti because the violence forced the closure of its main international airport. He arrived in Puerto Rico a week ago, after being barred from landing in the Dominican Republic, where officials said that he lacked a required flight plan. Dominican officials also closed the airspace to flights to and from Haiti.

It was not immediately clear who would be chosen to lead Haiti out of the crisis in which heavily armed gangs have burned police stations, attacked the main airport and raided two of the country’s biggest prisons. The raids resulted in the release of more than 4,000 inmates.

Scores of people have been killed, and more than 15,000 are homeless after fleeing neighborhoods raided by gangs. Food and water are dwindling as vendors who sell to impoverished Haitians run out of goods. The main port in the capital of Port-au-Prince remains closed, stranding dozens of containers with critical supplies.

The meeting in Jamaica was organized by Caricom, a regional trade bloc that has pressed for months for a transitional government in Haiti while violent protests in the country demanded Henry’s resignation.

Guyana President Irfaan Ali said the transitional council would have seven voting members and two nonvoting ones.

Those with votes include the Pitit Desalin party, run by former senator and presidential candidate Moïse Jean-Charles, who is now an ally of Guy Philippe, a former rebel leader who led a successful 2004 coup and was recently released from a United States prison after pleading guilty to money laundering.

Also with a vote is the EDE party of former Prime Minister Charles Joseph; the Fanmi Lavalas party; the coalition led by Henry; the Montana Accord group; and members of the private sector.

Henry served the longest single term as prime minister since Haiti’s 1987 constitution was approved, a surprising feat for a politically unstable country with a constant turnover of premiers. He was sworn in as prime minister nearly two weeks after the July 7, 2021, assassination of President Jovenel Moïse.

Critics of Henry note he was never elected by the people or Parliament, which remains nonexistent after the terms of the last remaining senators expired in January 2023. That left Haiti without a single elected official.

As Haiti prepares for new leadership, some experts question the role that heavily armed gangs who control 80% of Port-au-Prince will play.

“Even if you have a different kind of government, the reality is that you need to talk to the gangs,” said Robert Fatton, a Haitian politics expert at the University of Virginia. “You can’t suppress them.”

He said officials will still have to deal with them and try to convince them to give up their weapons, “but what would be their concessions?”

Fatton noted that gangs have supremacy in terms of controlling the capital. “If they have that supremacy, and there is no countervailing force, it’s no longer a question if you want them at the table. They may just take the table.”

On Monday, Blinken announced an additional $100 million to finance the deployment of a multinational force to Haiti, plus another $33 million in humanitarian aid. He also announced the creation of a joint proposal agreed on by Caribbean leaders and “all of the Haitian stakeholders to expedite a political transition” and create a “presidential college.”

He said the college would take “concrete steps” he did not identify to meet the needs of Haitian people and enable the pending deployment of the multinational force to be led by Kenya. Blinken also noted that the U.S. Defense Department doubled its support for the mission, having previously set aside $100 million.

While leaders met behind closed doors, Jimmy Chérizier, who is considered Haiti’s most powerful gang leader, told reporters that if the international community continues down the current road, “it will plunge Haiti into further chaos.”

“We Haitians have to decide who is going to be the head of the country and what model of government we want,” said Chérizier, a former elite police officer known as Barbecue, who leads the gang federation G9 Family and Allies. “We are also going to figure out how to get Haiti out of the misery it’s in now.”

Powerful gangs have been attacking key government targets across Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince since Feb. 29. When the attacks began, Henry was in Kenya pushing for the United Nations-backed deployment of a police force from the East African country after it was delayed by a court ruling.

Late Monday, the Haitian government announced it was extending a nighttime curfew until March 14 in an attempt to prevent further attacks.

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Earlier this month, a tweet from Labour Against the Arms Trade stated that “the last 10 remaining senators in Haiti’s parliament officially left office, leaving the country without a single democratically elected government official. On Wednesday, a Canadian military aircraft delivered armoured vehicles to the Haitian national police.”

It’s a useful, if somewhat too simple, juxtaposition. For years Haitian elections have had little legitimacy and in mid-2021 the US- and Canada-led Core Group appointed a leader with no constitutional or popular legitimacy. Ariel Henry’s rule has led to a boost in Canada’s assistance to the Haitian National Police (HNP). Ottawa put $42 million into the HNP in 2022. In October of last year, US and Canadian warplanes delivered an initial batch of Canadian-made armored personnel vehicles to the Haitian police and Ottawa has pushed to increase UN assistance to the HNP. Last week in Port-au-Prince, Deputy Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Mike Duheme signed “a new Memorandum of Understanding to facilitate cooperation between our two countries and to strengthen the capacity of the HNP.”...

Since 2004 Ottawa has provided hundreds of million dollars in what is officially described as Canadian “aid” to the HNP. Two years ago, the Trudeau government even tendered a $12.5 million contract in operational support to the HNP under its Feminist International Assistance Policy. Canadian funds have helped build or refurbish many prisons and a major police academy. Through various training initiatives Canada has helped increase the size of the HNP from five thousand in 2004 to fourteen thousand. Foreign donors provide as much as half of HNP funding....

The HNP enforces a highly inequitable economic order. Canadian officials are on record arguing that strengthening the Haitian police was good for business. After meeting Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe in 2014, Canada’s international development minister, Christian Paradis, linked strengthening the HNP to “attracting private investment.” Paradis said, “we discussed the priority needs of the country as well as the increased size of the Haitian National Police, in order to create a climate to attract private investment.”

Canada’s aim with Haiti’s police operates at cross purposes. To smooth the way for foreign capitalists they seek a “professional” force capable of maintaining order largely free of corruption and egregious abuses. At the same time, they want a force willing to violently suppress protests against an illegitimate regime, and that may even be prepared to oust a popular government trying to the redress the country’s vast internal inequities and foreign dependence.

A similar tension exists in Canada’s broader policies toward the country. Haiti is attractive to investors because it has the lowest labor costs in the hemisphere. Impoverishment is good for sweatshop owners such as Canada’s Gildan, but the insecurity it breeds is not. Instability and insecurity have become a substantial obstacle to capitalist interests. Canada has contributed to Haiti’s descent into chaos by imposing the highly regressive Haitian Tèt Kale Party and Ariel Henry. Canada has supported “oligarchic gangsterism” in Haiti, as I’ve noted, to quell popular, sovereign-minded forces.

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Fabienne Colas reçoit l’ordre du Canada| L’hôpital Bernard Mevs incendié| La police tue 16 présumés bandits| Magalie Georges contestée au CEP| Scission de Fanmi Lavalas dans le Sud.

L’actrice haitiano-canadienne, Fabienne Colas, a reçu de la gouverneure générale du Canada, Mary Simon, le prix de l’ordre du Canada pour ses excellentes contributions à la prospérité artistique et culturelle du Canada. Des criminels ont incendié le grand centre hospitalier privé d’Haïti, Bernard Mevs, dans la nuit du lundi 16 à mardi 17 décembre 2024. La police informe avoir neutralisé plus de…

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Fanmi Lavalas dénonce l’échec de l’équipe de transition et exige des changements

Dans une note de presse publiée le jeudi 12 décembre 2024, l’Organisation Fanmi Lavalas a exprimé sa solidarité avec les familles des victimes des récents massacres à Wharf Jérémie et Petite Rivière. Cependant, ce geste ne masque pas son amertume face à l’aggravation de l’insécurit��, huit mois après l’installation du Conseil présidentiel de Transition. Le parti, fondé par Jean-Bertrand Aristide,…

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Leslie Voltaire installé comme nouveau président du CPT

L’architecte Leslie Voltaire, représentant du parti politique Fanmi Lavalas au Conseil Présidentiel de transition, a été installé ce lundi en tant que nouveau Président de la structure politique de neuf membres. Il remplace Edgar Leblanc Fils qui a brillé par son absence à la cérémonie. Dans un contexte où une crise risque d’entraver le bon fonctionnement du Conseil Présidentiel de transition,…

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Fanmi Lavalas Presentation, April 6th 2024

Haiti Action Committee is honored to publish this transcript of the talk given by Fanmi Lavalas Executive Committee Members Dr. Maryse Narcisse and Joel Edouard Pacha Vorbe on April 6, 2024 at Eastside Arts Alliance in Oakland, California as well as live-streamed.   Good afternoon. Pacha Vorbe and I (Maryse Narcisse) of the Fanmi Lavalas Executive Committee are honored to be part of today’s…

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Haiti's prime minister resigned. Who will replace him?

Haiti's embattled Prime Minister Ariel Henry announced his resignation late on Monday, effective once a transition council and temporary replacement have been appointed.

HOW DID HENRY RESIGN?

A U.S. official said the decision for Henry's resignation was made on Friday, though he did not officially tender it to his cabinet until Monday evening and later issued an official video address.

Henry had traveled to Kenya in late February to secure support for an international security mission to fight Haiti's powerful armed gangs, but violence in the capital escalated during his absence and left him stranded in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico.

: Haiti's Prime Minister Ariel Henry speaks while addressing the nation, at an unidentified location on a date given as March 11, 2024,

Widespread protests have called for Henry's resignation. He took power after the 2021 assassination of Haiti's last president, Jovenel Moise, and had postponed elections, citing a lack of security. He had said he would step down by Feb. 7.

Late Friday, heavy gunfire sounded near the capital's National Palace, after days of violence in which armed gangs had broken thousands out of prison, forcing the capital's main cargo port to close and the government to order a state of emergency.

Over the weekend, representatives from Haiti's government as well as opposition groups, the private sector, civil society and religious groups met with leaders from the U.S. and Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to establish a consensus on how to return stability to the island.   

WHAT IS THE TRANSITION COUNCIL?

The presidential transitional council will be made up of two observers and seven voting members representing a range of Haitian society, CARICOM chair Irfaan Ali said on Monday.

During the transition, the council will exercise specified presidential powers through majority vote. 

It will also appoint an interim prime minister and a cabinet, co-sign orders and establish a provisional electoral council that will be tasked with paving the way to Haiti's first elections since 2016.

Anyone who has been convicted, charged or hit by U.N. sanctions will be barred from membership, as will anyone who opposes the U.N. resolution to deploy a security force to Haiti or intends to run in the next elections.

WHO WILL BE ON THE COUNCIL?

Although no individuals have been named to the council, CARICOM said the two non-voting observer roles would go to a religious leader and representative of Haiti's civil society.

The seven voting members will be drawn from Haiti's business sector and political parties or coalitions, including a group known as the January 30 Collective, and the December 21 Accord, an organization that had backed Henry's mandate to rule until February 2024.

A member will also be appointed by Fanmi Lavalas, a center-left party led by 70-year-old former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the country's first democratically elected president, and who was ousted in a 2004 coup d'etat.

Members will also represent Pitit Dessalines, a party led by former Senator Jean-Charles Moise after he split from Fanmi Lavalas and the Montana Accord, a 2021 grassroots movement that emerged toward the end of Haiti's last presidency.

The last member will represent Committed to Development (EDE), the party of former Prime Minister Claude Joseph, who has been accused of involvement in the assassination of Jovenel Moise, charges he blasted as political persecution.

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By Stephen Millies

More than a hundred people marched through the heart of Brooklyn, New York’s Haitian Community, on Oct. 17 to protest plans to invade Haiti. Onlookers in cars honked their horns and raised fists in support.

Fanmi Lavalas New York and Komokoda called the demonstration. “Our people in Haiti are fighting and dying to return to the free & sovereign country our ancestors defeated their white enslavers to create in 1804,” said the call for the demonstration. “We will not let them fight alone.”

U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is maneuvering to send troops under the guise of the United Nations.

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Leslie Voltaire remet en question la primauté du droit international

Dans une interview choc récemment accordée à Radio Magik9, Leslie Voltaire, représentant de Fanmi Lavalas au Conseil présidentiel, a soulevé une question brûlante : la primauté du droit international sur les lois haïtiennes. Selon lui, le Conseil de sécurité des Nations Unies (CSNU) a autorité sur la législation nationale en Haïti. Leslie Voltaire a défendu cette position en affirmant que la…

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Victime de kidnapping, Anthony Dessources remercie tous ceux qui lui ont témoigné de la solidarité

Victime de kidnapping, Anthony Dessources remercie tous ceux qui lui ont témoigné de la solidarité

Victime de kidnapping, Anthony Dessources remercie tous ceux qui lui ont témoigné de la solidarité Après une semaine passée entre les mains des ravisseurs, le Professeur Anthony Dessources ainsi que Ronald Germain enlevés le samedi 29 octobre, alors qu’ils se rendaient à l’aéroport international Toussaint Louverture, reviennent sur cet événement malheureux pour remercier tous ceux qui ont…

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Haïti : Résumé du Programme Politique du Parti Pitit Dessalines (PPPD)

Haïti : Résumé du Programme Politique du Parti Pitit Dessalines (PPPD)

La Plateforme Politique Pitit Dessalines (PPPD), dirigé par Jean Charles Moïse, est l’un des rares partis politiques dotés d’un programme politique sur lequel mise des Haïtiens et pp partenaires internationaux pour passer de parole aux actes. Dans cet article, on présente le résumé du programme politique de la Plateforme Politique Pitit Dessalines. Ensuite, on passe en revue la biographie et les…

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Lavalas prend la tête du conseil présidentiel de Transition| Le bilan des massacres de Pont Sondé s’alourdit| La police s’attaque aux gangs de Savien et gran grif| Expulsion massives des haïtiens.

Le conseiller président, l’ingénieur Leslie Voltaire, a été investi à la tête du conseil  présidentiel de Transition, le 07 octobre 2024. Le représentant du parti fanmi qui occupe cette fonction présidentielle tournante promet de s’attaquer à l’insécurité et de préparer les voies vers les prochaines élections. Plusieurs voix s’élèvent pour condamner la déportation massive des haïtiens…

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Élections au Conseil Présidentiel : L'Impasse de Fanmi Lavalas et l'Accord de Montana, Obstacle au Changement

Le Conseil Présidentiel est pris dans les rouages du temps, entre les pressions politiques et les exigences pour une transition transparente. Tandis que les projecteurs se tournent vers les délibérations cruciales pour élire son président, l’Accord de Montana et Fanmi Lavalas semblent jouer un jeu d’usure qui retarde l’inévitable. Le report récent a été enclenché par l’absence cruelle d’un…