In Haiti’s Constitutional Labyrinth, Charlito Baker Draws a Straight Line By Patrick Prézeau Stephenson * PORT-AU-PRINCE — In a country drowning in ad‑hoc arrangements, contact groups and “transitions” that never seem to end, Charles Henri “Charlito” Baker is making a radically unfashionable demand: go back to the text. In a four‑page memorandum dated May 10, 2025, titled “Proposition de sortie de crise pour Haïti,” Baker — businessman, agriculteur, three‑time presidential candidate and veteran of the GNB 184 movement — lays out what he calls a “constitutional” path out of Haiti’s deepening collapse. The word appears like a mantra throughout the document. His solution, he insists, is nothing more and nothing less than a return to the 1987 Constitution “dans sa version originale.” In an era when almost every political actor in Haiti claims the mantle of legality while quietly bending the law, Baker’s text is striking for how literally, even rigidly, it re...