Un éclatement au sein de l'OEA par rapport aux prises de positions d'ALMAGRO dont il est inutile de rappeler ses affinités avec le régime tèt kale.(en anglais)

Strong disagreement may be brewing at the Organization of American States (OAS) on how to respond to the ongoing, grave political and constitutional crisis in Haiti.

Since January 2020, the Haitian president, Jovenel Moïse, has been ruling the country by decree without any legislative oversight.  The mandates of the members of the Haitian parliament, except for ten of them, were terminated because elections were not held.

The rising tension in the country, including use of lethal force by the police against protestors, widespread kidnappings and killing, rape of women, and an arbitrary decision by Moïse to hold a controversial referendum on a new constitution, as well as heightened political contention, caused concerned member states at the OAS, including nine CARICOM countries, to sponsor a Resolution at the organization’s Permanent Council to address the situation urgently.

Specifically, the Resolution, adopted on March 17, offered “the good offices of the OAS under the authority of the Permanent Council to facilitate a dialogue that would lead to free and fair elections”. It requested the secretary-general, Luis Almagro, “to advise the government and other major stakeholders in Haiti, of the Permanent Council’s offer to undertake a good offices role and to invite the president of Haiti to consider inviting the Permanent Council to do so”.

Whether or not Almagro wrote to the Haitian president and “other major stakeholders” is unclear. Certainly, no major political party or human rights group in Haiti has confirmed receipt of any communication from him. There has also been silence from him to two official requests, asking for details of stakeholders to whom he might have written and when. There is no need for this – a straight answer is all that is required.

This matter will be mired in controversy, because while uncertainty prevails over whether or not the secretary-general did write to the president and other major stakeholders in Haiti, a letter dated April 28 was sent to him by Claude Joseph in the latter’s capacity as minister of foreign affairs. The letter is significant.

First, it does not refer to any communication received from Almagro. Instead, it references the Permanent Council’s Resolution of March 17 as the basis for writing. Second, it states that “the government of the Republic of Haiti is willing to receive an OAS mission in support of the ongoing dialogue with all the nation’s stakeholders with a view to concluding a political agreement that will facilitate the organization of the constitutional referendum and elections at all levels during the course of 2021”.

On the second point, the OAS Resolution of March 17 did not offer its good offices “to facilitate the organization of the constitutional referendum”. The proposed referendum is entirely of president Moïse’s making and is mired in claims of unconstitutionality. The highly respected US Congresswoman, Maxine Waters, describes it as “Moïse’s most audacious and dangerous power grab”. Legal experts inside and outside Haiti have opined that the existing Constitution specifically prohibits referenda to decide constitutional changes because a former dictator, Jean Claude ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier, had used that artifice to proclaim himself president-for-life.

A storm brewing over Haiti at the OAS

By Sir Ronald Sanders Strong disagreement may be brewing at the Organization of American States (OAS) on how to respond to the ongoing, grave political and constitutional crisis in Haiti. Since ...

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