Can this doctor chosen to lead Haiti, who lived outside the country for more than ten years, save the country?
Haiti: New Prime Minister Garry Conille Faces Challenges of Gang Violence
Haiti’s new Prime Minister, Garry Conille, is a gynecologist by training which experts consider to be a public policy specialist rather than a seasoned politicianMany Haitians are counting on him to quell rampant gang violence.
As the new prime minister of Haiti, a country without a president or parliament, where gangs have destroyed dozens of police stations and killed thousands, Garry Conille arguably has one of the toughest jobs of any leader in the Western Hemisphere.
He attended the funerals of slain police officers and met with their widows. He fired the police chief — blaming him for the failure to fight gangs — and appointed a new one. He also welcomed a contingent of Kenyan police officers tasked with helping to reduce violence. Last week, he knocked on doors in Washington with an urgent message:
“This is not the time to get tired of Haiti.”
Mr. Conille, 58, a former long-time U.N. official who had lived outside Haiti for more than ten yearstook over the reins of Haiti’s government five weeks ago, in the midst of one of the worst crises the country has faced in decades.
The post had become vacant after armed groups joined forces to attack prisons, hospitals and entire neighborhoods in an uprising so severe that the former prime minister, traveling abroad, was unable to return to his own country.
Mr Conille was chosen by a transitional presidential council charged with overseeing the country.
Can Garry Conille Save Haiti? – The New York Times (nytimes.com)
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