In recent days, the country has been plunged into a spiral of violence. The death toll from the National Human Rights Defense Network stands at eight dead. Nine sub-police stations were burned or looted and 21 institutions vandalized. The Prime Minister, Ariel Henry, traveling abroad when the situation deteriorated, has still not managed to return to Haiti. For its part, Caricom, the Caribbean Community, cannot agree on the behavior to adopt.
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Haiti is a country without a president and where Prime Minister Ariel Henry is absent. Since armed gangs attacked the two main prisons of the capital, freeing thousands of prisoners, the country is delivered to gang war. Armed bands sow terror.
The state of emergency has been extended for a month in Port-au-Prince, which has been plagued for several days by a sharp surge in gang violence, according to the Thursday March 6 publication of Le Moniteur, the official journal of this country of Caribbean.
The authorities, who have lost control of large areas of the capital to criminal gangs, have published a “ order establishing a state of security emergency throughout the West department “, which includes Port-au-Prince, ” for a period of one month “.
A police station was set on fire again on Wednesday evening in the capital Port-au-Prince. Since this weekend and the escape of thousands of detainees, the situation is even a little more tense. And for the residents, it is difficult to live in these conditions.
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No political solution to the crisis yet
But how can we try to regain control of the situation? The Caribbean Community and the United States are involved. At present, Prime Minister Ariel Henry has still not managed to return to his country. Ariel Henry is still stuck in Puerto Rico. It is impossible to know how and when he will be able to return to Haiti.
The meetings continue, but there is no political solution to the crisis for the moment. Caricom is struggling to find an agreement between the Haitian government, the various political actors and the country’s elites. And the absence of the Prime Minister, who has governed without Parliament for a year, does not help the situation, deplores the President of the Community.
However, now is the time for urgency. In Port-au-Prince, more than 15,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in recent days, the UN worries.
The attitude of the United States towards Ariel Henry equally vague?
According to an article from Miami Herald published on Wednesday, the United States reportedly asked him to resign. These assertions were denied shortly after by the White House, which declared that it expected Ariel Henry “ accelerate the transition to free and fair elections “. And this would involve the creation of a presidential transition council, according to Washington. Would Mr. Henry be one of them? The question remains.
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