Expressing impatience with the current “govt’s” refusal to
move forward. But it will happen. If it happens soon I’m all for tradition. If they’re blocking the new council…

No more waiting for the still sitting Ariel Henry govt to do the right thing for #Haiti . They never have. This is what crafty Henry meant when he said he wd resign when the new council was confirmed. He is still the de facto PM. Has anyone seen his letter of resignation?

No need to wait for Le Moniteur to publish the Haiti presidential council decree.... Who says that matters, at this point, w/ an unelected govt running that show? Publish on the front page of Nouvelliste, or on a broad sheet that can be posted on every corner as in days of old.

'The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another his mother called him 'WILD THING!'
#WheretheWildThingsAre by #MauriceSendack first published #OTD 9 April 1963. Still hot!🍲

But WHO is the wrong question, isn’t it? WHAT do the people want and who can make the political space to get them what they want and need. Not a cult of personality in other words.

Will this be Haiti in 30 years?!

Today police officers peacefully patroled #Haiti 's capital. Gang actions continued. The interim council's proposal was released & the council's installation ceremony envisaged. But can this actually happen & will the nation accept it? The gangs? Where does power really reside?

Let’s do the right thing in #Haiti , press for a huge investment in humanitarian aid with proper controls, and give Franckelie, Ben and their generation something to be hopeful about. Read more at: miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/… Jim Wilentz Amy Wilentz

Here’s what we’ve all been saying about the post earthquake years in #Haiti for two years, and now brought right up to the moment by someone who was a witness to this immoral policy.

The Collapse of US Haiti Policy justsecurity.org/94288/us-haiti…

As I have said repeatedly: as you watch the situation in #Haiti unfold, try to remember that Haitians are real people. They are like YOU. Try to empathize with Haitian mothers & children under fire as you would with Ukrainians. Your inability to care adds fuel to their disaster.

Haitians are human beings. Our blood is red, like all human beings. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights should take our rights into account. #Stop the cynicism.

I have said this before & will say it again here: The world owes an enormous debt to #Haiti 's courageous journalists who, through the hell Port-au-Prince has gone through over the last weeks, have shown the world what has occurred with immense courage & professionalism. ✍️📸📽️🎙️

Amy Wilentz There’s no consensus amongst Haitians 4 welcoming foreign boots. There’s people pro intervention (I am). And there’s a large population that’s against. Furthermore, the enemy is not that easy to identify AND we are in an election yr 🤷🏿‍♂️ all those play against us

Int'l community should fund a works project program run by new Haitian govt for youngest of gang members; salaries, free school for kids, health insurance for elders. Have them rebuild what they've destroyed. Is this a dream world for #Haiti ? I don't think so. Hope not.

Haitian police need bolstering. Haitian fire dept needs hiring, bolstering, training. People need housing. Works project program needs to be instituted. Where's the Clinton-Bush fund for #Haiti now? Where are all the caring Americans? Remember: Haitians are as real as Ukrainians.

No major sugar industry run by U.S. businessmen, no major garment/textile biz, little assembly.... so U.S. leaves #Haiti to burn, with all its 300+ years of culture, architecture, and its living people today, destroyed. U.S. waited 3 years even to push for a transitional govt.

Amazing that chaos can envelope Port-au-Prince & environs, & the U.S., so eager to march into #Haiti in the past, is paralyzed. It must mean that U.S. no longer has business interests in Haiti other than drug trafficking, which requires only guns & airstrips.

For over an hour, you hear intense gunfire from gangs near the general hospital and the national palace. Then, a massive speaker starts playing Konpa - a music genre Haiti hopes to add to UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list. And now - 7:50, both sounds occur simultaneously

Izo knows what’s going on: Haiti as a great big transshipment spot. Who needs a national library or schools or a graduate school for artists or businesses that serve people or national agriculture all of which gangs have attacked? Unbuilding Haiti under the nose of the U.S.

The parents’ note reads like a parody. Unbelievable lack of understanding.