Without judging the individual or individuals, no member of Dr. Ariel Henry’s de facto power deserves to remain in his post.
No, Doctor Conille, don’t kill the word “rupture”!
Sometimes words die. Something, someone comes along to twist them from their original meaning, to roll them in flour or to reduce them to a caricature. To bury the thing by burying the name of the thing. Or to bury the thing under a false name that makes it invisible by distorting it.
During the first quarter of the 19th century, in international diplomacy, the name Haiti was rarely or never used; it was a way of denying the existence of a reality too radical for colonial capitalism.
Today, in some societies that are as hypocritical as they are arrogant, the word people is buried by caricaturing it in a catch-all, the nebula of “populism”. We must no longer say people. All those who say people are “populists”, so the extreme right and the extreme left, although carrying irreconcilable visions of what they call people, are the same thing. Governance replaces government, we offer people not political thinkers carrying human projects, but executive directors who apply methods.
During the first quarter of the 19th century, in international diplomacy, the name Haiti was rarely or never used; it was a way of denying the existence of a reality too radical for colonial capitalism.
Here, we want to bury the word rupture. The good doctor Conille has arrived, Zorro of the Americans, welcomed unanimously by a Presidential Council that is increasingly taking on the appearance of a rump parliament. They look good, the representatives and those represented within this Council, who yesterday demanded the rupture.
And, to ensure this break, the good doctor Conille would like to keep the Minister of National Education. Why? To ensure stability! To ensure stability, let us keep one of the leading figures of a power that has only produced instability and the destruction of institutions. We will certainly find others who deserve to be kept, so much have they served the country.
Such an act by the imposed Prime Minister would simply and clearly mean that he totally disregards the desire for rupture expressed by the population. He demands a blank check to do what he wants. This also falls within the PHTK tradition and its ilk: doing what one wants. And what one assumes that the “whites” want.
Doctor Conille, you are not a popular leader. You are only the most acceptable to the international in its projects, and it is the weakness of the national progressive political actors that places you in power.
Such an act on the part of the Prime Minister would simply and clearly mean that he totally disregards the desire for a break expressed by the population.
Do not drive the point home, and do not provoke the population, the Haitian progressives, by showing from the start that you are coming to ensure a continuity that has only done us harm. Without judging the individual or individuals, no member of the de facto power of Doctor Ariel Henry deserves to remain in his post.
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Do not bury the word rupture and do not bury your reputation and the (little) credibility you have by showing yourself to be unnecessarily authoritarian in the defense of continuity. If you embark on this path, no one will believe you are willing and able to organize free and credible elections. However, we no longer want anyone, the Americans, the EU, the Core Group, the government in place to continue to appoint our elected representatives.
Par Lyonel Trouillot
Cover image: Prime Minister Garry Conille received a copy of the order of his appointment on Monday, June 3, 2024, at the Villa d’Acceuil, in Musseau. | © Jean Feguens Regala/AyiboPost
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Poet, novelist, literary critic and screenwriter, Lyonel Trouillot studied law.
