From transition to transition, poverty remains and remains the nagging refrain of Haitian daily life. While fierce struggles for control of political power multiply between the Council for the Transition (CPT) and Prime Minister Garry Conille, the Haitian people are paying the high price of this chronic instability. Each battle, each maneuver, is to the detriment of the population, without any tangible improvement coming to relieve their suffering.
The international community, faithful to its ambiguous role, oscillates between indifference and sporadic intervention. Its priorities are elsewhere, centered on the major global geopolitical crises. As for Haiti, it is content with a cocktail of broken promises, dangling solutions that never arrive. This posture creates a chasm of disappointed hopes, leaving the country alone in the face of its challenges.
Meanwhile, civil society seems suspended from the decisions of oligarchs and major economic figures. Often powerless or silenced, it passively waits for overtures from those who pull the strings behind the scenes. The gap between the needs of the people and the interests of the elites only amplifies the frustration and resignation of a population running out of steam.
The illusion of successive transitions has only given way to permanent misery, where the State plays the role of firefighter without vision or program of sustainable social development. Daily emergencies dominate, and national recovery projects are only a mirage. In this chaos, the Haitian people survive with courage, but without any real prospect of a better future.
The questions remain open: How long will this infernal cycle of transitions and false promises last? When will we see a political class, a civil society, and international partners finally aligned to put an end to this infernal spiral? And above all, who will carry the voice of the Haitian people in this incessant battle for a stability that always seems out of reach?
The answer, if it exists, must come from the collective upsurge of a nation determined to take its destiny back into its own hands.
Patrick Alexis
Committed Citizen
alexispat@gmail.com
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