In the News: Is a way out of the political crisis possible in Haiti?
Security awaits the arrival of a Haitian diplomatic delegation at the United States embassy in the Tabarre district of Port-au-Prince on July 11, 2021, three days after the assassination of Haitian leader Jovenel Moise.
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If, as
Le National
said on Wednesday, there is literally "
a rain of proposals
" to get out of this crisis, it does not mean that they will be listened to. Because if on the one hand the opposition political parties and the PHTK (Haitian party tèt kale) have reached an agreement so that Jospeh Lambert, president of a Senate which has only ten elected officials, occupies the position of interim president and Ariel Henry occupies that of Prime Minister, "
a fringe of civil society and other political structures are opposed
."
The latter advocate "
a broad and inclusive consensus
" to find a solution while others "
ask for a government council with three credible figures of society
" details
Le National
. The individual interests seem to take precedence over the collective laments the daily. An observation shared by
Le Nouvelliste
for whom “
the country is at a crossroads
”. "
Apart from the refusal or the inability of the Haitians to find a consensus to lead the country, the field is free for the international community to impose its solution
" estimates the daily newspaper which calls on the various actors so that
“Premium for once the collective interest on the interest of chapel.
"
Haiti: the president of the PHTK does not rule out any leads
The president of the PHTK, the political formation of Jovenel Moïse, says he does not rule out any leads concerning the sponsors of the assassination of the Haitian president, according to
Le Nouvelliste
who returns to an interview (in Creole) that Liné Balthazar gave to the radio
Magik9
. Interview during which the president of the Haitian Party tèt kale said that he "
does not rule out the possibility that this crime comes from his own political family
". Liné Balthazar says he is confident that the Haitian justice and police, who have many elements, manage to find these famous sponsors. His political family, he explains, is not immune to all suspicion, just like the other political parties. And Liné Balthazar warns: “
I do not want there to be political interference, a tendency to make a political appropriation of the corpse of Jovenel Moïse favoring individuals to settle their personal and political affairs
", before adding:"
If we do not succeed in shed light on this issue, no other president will be safe in the country
”.
The protest movement continues in Cuba
The protests continue and the authorities confirm a first victim in addition to numerous arrests - more than a hundred according to the foreign press. Information that makes the front page of
El Nuevo Herald
, an American daily newspaper in Spanish language, very close to the Cuban diaspora. According to this newspaper, these figures were reported by official Cuban media. The first victim of the repression by the authorities is a 36-year-old man, who died in Arroyo Naranjo, one of the 15 municipalities of Havana where the police were deployed in large numbers last Monday. Yesterday, Cubans again took to the streets of some localities to express their fed up, especially in the provinces, because Havana is literally cordoned off by the police, explains
El Nuevo Herald
.
Gatherings that were held despite the cut of the Internet network, the main means used to call for demonstrations, recalls the Colombian daily
La Republica
.
The
É
the United States being squeezed in the Cuban case
US President Joe Biden called on Cuban authorities two days ago to restore internet connections cut since last Sunday.
And in the face of this situation, Governor Ron DeSantis, Republican Governor of the State of Florida, calls on American companies, based in his state, to put in place solutions so that Cubans can connect and so that the world knows what. that is happening in Cuba.
This is what
the Tampa Bay Times
explains
. According to him, these companies are able to offer satellite connections, a flow that the Cuban authorities cannot cut. A governor who pleads for the White House to keep a hard line against the Cuban regime, another theme that today fuels the American press, because the position of the White House is criticized by all.
Joe Biden is caught in a vice explains the
Washington Post
on Wednesday
in an analytical article. On the one hand there is the left wing of the Democratic Party which calls on the White House to unravel the measures taken by Donald Trump against Cuba and on the other hand there is the Republican Party which calls on Joe Biden to not to bend, not to negotiate with a dictatorial and corrupt regime. Republicans who do not hesitate to call the president weak. The White House, which did not intend to take a position, explains the
Washington Post
, had to change its mind in the face of what could be a historic uprising according to the daily. Biden is on a tightrope, says
Washington Post
and right now, the president's advisers still don't know how to handle a situation they didn't anticipate.
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