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Powol yon Jounalis Vwazen ki patisipe nan anpil act destabilizsyon politik an Ayiti ou swa pou interet li ou sou non yon lot fos Pouvaw.

En Anglais, veye yo le yo I only speak Spanish, yet how do they speak with the bureaucrats behind closed doors.

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he assassination of the President of Haiti, Jovenel Moïse, on the morning of July 7, 2021, represented a singular escalation in the political and social crisis that has characterized our closest neighbor for years.

Since then, the level of degradation -in all aspects of institutional life-, the increase in violence, the normalization of kidnapping for ransom, the indiscriminate murder of citizens, the deepening of misery and precariousness of all kinds, have become the daily life of millions of people on the other side of the border.

The gritty Hobbesian account of the "state of nature" stands on a patent paradox.

This is the idea according to which the self-awareness of the natural equality between people is, at the same time, the source of insecurity, competition and reciprocal aggression between the members of the collective.

The point is simple: since everyone, as a self-perceived equal, considers himself or herself to have enough merit to obtain what is necessary for them, in an environment dominated by scarcity, the predisposition to aggression is the way to manage satisfying the imperatives of survival.

Thus, the only way to get out of this situation of "war of all against all" is by erecting a source of authority strong enough that it cannot be challenged even by a broad coalition of members of that group: the State, which, as a cohesive common power, is recognized as having a legitimate monopoly on institutionalized violence.

"Where there is no common power, there is no law", dictates Hobbes in some line of chapter XIII of his Leviathan.

The total breakdown of the authority of the State, the non-existence of "a common power" with authority over all (and the means to enforce it), and a situation of civil war that only the existence of the State can prevent, are the deep marks of the tragedy that Haiti is experiencing today, where the roar of the weapons of criminal gangs are the only grammar to read the bloody situation of its population.

very serious situation
The situation described poses serious challenges in various areas for the Dominican Republic.

Perhaps the most important is awareness of the depth of the crisis: we are facing a very serious situation that President Abinader has correctly described, in my opinion, as a "low-intensity civil war." In such a circumstance, there are no institutional channels, nor interlocutors with recognized authority to, internally, seek a way out of the situation.

There is no solution without intervention
Therefore, there is no solution to the crisis without a concerted, robust, immediate intervention, and as long as the circumstances of its implementation require, from the international community, whose first mission is to restore peace and security for citizens.

In addition, a solid economic-financial and technical support is required, in an amount sufficient to meet the emergencies of food, health, housing, education and minimum infrastructures for a return to normality.

This must be managed in parallel to the beginning of a process of support in the creation of institutional conditions that culminate in an electoral process resulting in legitimate authorities for the restoration of the rule of law and the management of public affairs.

In relation to the above, the role of our government must be to insist, in all available scenarios, in calling on the International Community to play its role. It is the only way to avoid a situation of calamity with regional connotations in which we would all lose, including the great powers.

Another important challenge we face is migration, since the situation described pushes part of the Haitian population to look outside their borders for a way out of the threat posed by the magnitude of the institutional collapse in their country.

This is perhaps the most critical of our government's challenges because it forces it, on the one hand, to take measures to control migratory flows in accordance with the current circumstances.

On the other hand, it raises the need for these measures to be adopted, first within the framework of current legislation on the matter and, second, consciously taking care not to succumb to the discourse of some political groups and social sectors that see Haiti as an enemy that must be fought, instead of a neighbor that must be helped to protect, a trading partner whose development should be encouraged and a human group that deserves solidarity.

Posted October 12 2022 at 12:06 PM

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