{"id":104912,"date":"2020-02-27T18:52:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T22:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=104912"},"modified":"2020-02-27T18:52:55","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T22:52:55","slug":"commentary-caricoms-role-as-haitian-crisis-worsens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-caricoms-role-as-haitian-crisis-worsens\/","title":{"rendered":"COMMENTARY: CARICOM\u2019S Role As Haitian Crisis Worsens"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Sir Ronald Sanders<\/p>

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(The writer is Ambassador of Antigua and Barbuda to the United States and the Organization of American States.\u00a0\u00a0He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and at Massey College in the University of Toronto.\u00a0\u00a0The views expressed are entirely his own)<\/i><\/p>\n

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On February 20, the UN Security Council received a grim report of deteriorating human rights and collapsing rule of law in Haiti.\u00a0\u00a0The troubling situation includes widening malnutrition, kidnappings for ransom, rapes and gang violence.<\/p>

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And, while all of this is happening, the courts in the Capital, Port-au-Prince, have been closed since September 2019, and the President Jovenel Mo\u00efse, unable to secure Senate approval for a government, has been ruling by decree.<\/p>

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For every country in the world, apart from the most failed of failed states, the closure of courts to arbitrate disputes, try criminals, protect citizens from abuse and, generally, to dispense justice, would be a frightening development.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Neighbouring countries and others that proclaim deep commitment to human rights worldwide would have condemned this situation and demanded action to remedy it.<\/p>\n

Further, the unchecked power of a President to rule entirely as he wishes would create consternation within democratic countries and among democratic nations of the global community.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The situation is particularly alarming in Mo\u00efse\u2019s case since in the Presidential election of November 2016, he received less than 20 percent of the voter turnout which was not large and that followed a series of postponed and controversial elections.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He was not a leader elected with overwhelming support.<\/p>

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Yet, there has been deafening silence on Haiti. Apart from the UN Special Representative, Helen La Lime, the principal external interlocutors in Haitian affairs, the U.S., Canada, the European Union, and the Representative of the Organisation of American States (OAS), have sought no action to curb the downward spiral into increased violence and a growing movement by groups of Haitian people to take the law into their own hands.<\/p>\n

Disappointingly, the OAS Secretary-General, Luis Almagro, who has needed no urging to condemn governments in Venezuela and Nicaragua for violations of human, civil and political rights, has not seen it fit to bring the troubling situation in Haiti to the attention of the Permanent Council of the OAS.<\/p>

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Instead on February 24, in the wake of popular protests, including by the Police, Mr. Almagro chose to tweet that he condemns violence and \u201cadvocates for the solutions that the country needs\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Mr. Almagro is capable of much more than such a trivial response to Haiti\u2019s continuing descent into recession, with at least 4.6 million Haitians facing a humanitarian crisis.\u00a0\u00a0To be clear, Mr. Almagro should bring charter violations of all states to the attention of the OAS \u2013 Venezuela and Nicaragua which he has done, but others too.<\/p>

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None of this is fair to the people of Haiti.\u00a0\u00a0It is no wonder that so many of them believe that they are a nation to which the global community prefers to blind its eyes while their suffering continues.<\/p>\n

Of course, the lack of any consideration of Haiti in the OAS is tied to the support of the\u00a0Mo\u00efse<\/a>\u00a0government for the positions of the governments of the U.S. and the Lima Group on Venezuela, and the backing of the U.S. government for the re-election of Luis Almagro as the OAS Secretary-General.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The government of Haiti\u2019s vote is vital to the achievement of 18 votes that are required to achieve these purposes.<\/p>\n

The Ambassador of the Dominican Republic to the UN, Jos\u00e9 Singer, starkly pointed out the chaos in Haiti to the UN Security Council meeting on February 20.\u00a0\u00a0There is, he said, \u201ca deep constitutional crisis, rampant violence fuelled by illicit traffic and the excessive accumulation of small arms, weapons and ammunition, which has significantly contributed to the spread of organized crime including gangs\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Dominican Republic government is gravely concerned about events in Haiti because refugees fleeing the country regularly cross the land border of the Island that Haiti and the Dominican Republic share.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He lamented the dissolution of the UN Peace keeping force last October \u2013 a regrettable development on which I commented publicly.<\/p>\n

The government of The Bahamas also has similar reasons to be concerned, particularly as its islands have been the reluctant recipients of Haitian refugees, and there is now popular demand to send them back to Haiti, especially after the ravages last year to Grand Bahama and the Abacos Islands.<\/p>\n

In July 2019, the 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) attempted to play a role in resolving the deteriorating situation in Haiti.\u00a0\u00a0The Community sought the agreement of Mo\u00efse to send a team of Heads of Government, led by the then Chair, Allan Chastenet the Prime Minister of St Lucia.\u00a0\u00a0CARICOM received no reply.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Subsequently, the CARICOM Secretary-General, Irwin LaRocque, again wrote proposing that a technical mission be sent to Port-au-Prince.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0That too met with deafening silence.<\/p>\n

So concerned were the CARICOM leaders about the worsening situation in Haiti that the current Chair, Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados, was mandated to speak with President\u00a0Mo\u00efse<\/a>\u00a0by phone during the recently held CARICOM Summit in Barbados.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Mo\u00efse did not attend the meeting, sending instead his appointed Foreign Minister, Bochit Edmond, who arrived on the last day of the meeting.\u00a0\u00a0It is left to be seen whether this second attempt by CARICOM to engage Haiti will yield any results.<\/p>\n

The UN Special Representative, Helen La Lime, told the UN Security Council of the failure to reach a political settlement in Haiti.\u00a0\u00a0She said, \u201cDespite progress regarding the nature of the reforms to be undertaken, including that of the Constitution, political actors have yet to settle on a formula that would lead to the designation by President Mo\u00efse of a consensual Prime Minister and the formation of a new government. The lack of agreement on this matter, as well as on the remaining length of President\u00a0Mo\u00efse<\/a>\u2019s term, threatens to needlessly prolong a situation that has already lasted too long.\u201d<\/p>\n

While she did not say it, a big part of the impasse in reaching a solution is that the opposition parties do not trust the interlocutors who have been trying to broker a settlement.\u00a0\u00a0They might have more confidence in CARICOM, but first President Mo\u00efse must agree to CARICOM engagement with all political players in Haiti.<\/p>\n

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is Ambassador of Antigua and Barbuda to the United States and the Organization of American States.\u00a0\u00a0He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and at Massey College in the University of Toronto.\u00a0\u00a0The views expressed are entirely his own) \u00a0 On […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nCOMMENTARY: CARICOM\u2019S Role As Haitian Crisis Worsens - Antigua News Room<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-caricoms-role-as-haitian-crisis-worsens\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"COMMENTARY: CARICOM\u2019S Role As Haitian Crisis Worsens\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is Ambassador of Antigua and Barbuda to the United States and the Organization of American States.\u00a0\u00a0He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and at Massey College in the University of Toronto.\u00a0\u00a0The views expressed are entirely his own) \u00a0 On […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-caricoms-role-as-haitian-crisis-worsens\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Antigua News Room\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/antiguanewsroom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-02-27T22:52:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/SirRon.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"340\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-caricoms-role-as-haitian-crisis-worsens\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-caricoms-role-as-haitian-crisis-worsens\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Editor\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/person\/36cac05ef6398fe56ae3e6317f8535c5\"},\"headline\":\"COMMENTARY: CARICOM\u2019S Role As Haitian Crisis Worsens\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-02-27T22:52:55+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-02-27T22:52:55+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-caricoms-role-as-haitian-crisis-worsens\/\"},\"wordCount\":1070,\"commentCount\":1,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-caricoms-role-as-haitian-crisis-worsens\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:600\/h:340\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/SirRon.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-caricoms-role-as-haitian-crisis-worsens\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-caricoms-role-as-haitian-crisis-worsens\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-caricoms-role-as-haitian-crisis-worsens\/\",\"name\":\"COMMENTARY: CARICOM\u2019S Role As Haitian Crisis Worsens - 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