The more time passes, the more this Council already turns into a caricature even before its installation
It’s been many nights, yet they don’t seem to have given any advice. Here is a people, a country, condemned to wait for a Presidential Council. The wait for a stopgap, a solution for want of something better. So that a semblance of real and institutional life can resume. Because life has stopped. Daily life consists of watching us waste away.
And the more time passes, the more this Council is already turning into a caricature even before its installation. The more the rumors of negotiations, of concessions, of subservience to international authorities, of the growing influence of legal bandits who pillaged this country for a decade, increase and frighten us.
We are talking about ministers from the sinister de facto government of Ariel Henry who are demanding positions in diplomacy. We know nothing about what is happening in what remains of public administration. Zealous supporters of the de facto government are once again, without hesitation, beginning to take over the media.
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The conflict remains the same between a logic of continuity and the demand for a break expressed by the population. This Council will be the territory of confrontation between these two contrary approaches. We will have, for us who want to see this country change towards greater justice and well-being for all, the lack of credibility, the lack of personality, the intellectual weakness and the proven incompetence of the representatives of legal banditry within this Council . They have never done and know how to do anything other than what they have done: use power to serve their personal interests. They will have the influence and power of action of a clique which controls a large part of the public administration. Their power to cause harm will be their weapon.
Faced with this, it will be necessary, without joy, to support the progressive side, to exercise permanent surveillance over the decisions and orientations of this Council. There is a danger that representatives of sectors which have in no way participated in the plundering of the country and the destruction of this country by the PHTH variants will lose within this Council the little credibility and confidence that the country places in them.
We hear voices accusing Montana of sliding into a “gentle drift”. Prosecution of the perpetrators of blood crimes and financial crimes over the last fifteen years.
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Measures in favor of disadvantaged classes who are dying. Intelligence and political and security management of the gang problem. Restoration of institutional bodies. Establishment of conditions for holding elections worthy of the name. This Council will have puppets in its midst opposed to all this. And behind these puppets, such a brown lawyer, such a former senator, so many corrupt politicians, string pullers and predators who are never at rest.
The task before us is heavy. While the installation of this Council seems to oscillate between pachanga, waltz and contradance, we must already think about the tools that we are going to give ourselves so that this Council, despite its shaky character and the dawn killers within it, makes us do a small step towards the better future to which we are entitled.
Par Lionel Trouillot
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Poet, novelist, literary critic and screenwriter, Lyonel Trouillot studied law.
