Haiti has no president or elected officials. Instead, an expensive nine-member presidential council holds power without oversight or accountability.
Haiti has no president or elected officials. Instead, an expensive nine-member presidential council holds power without oversight or accountability.
What active sabotage?
This is conspiracy theory level thinking. The “West” very much wants the situation to stabilise. They might not be willing to contribute enough resources, but that’s the same thing as actively wanting Haiti to be ruled by gangs.
Check the edit.
Not denying the historical commentary w.r.t. colonialism. It’s still a conspiracy theory to think that western countries currently want Haiti to be unstable and be run by gangs.
As I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, they might not want to bear the financial burden (I would speculate you need several billion USD a year for security and institution building), but it’s not like they actively benefit from Haiti being unstable.
That being said, I am open to alternative commentary from someone living there (unfortunately I’ve never been to Haiti).
That’s true, I meant that Haiti was historically actively sabotaged—rather than simply neglected—by the West. In hindsight I should’ve worded that differently.
The CIA bro