Feuille de route d’Haïti : Un consortium guidé par le secteur privé peut-il assurer la sécurité, les élections et la réforme ?

Haiti’s Feuille de Route: Can a Private Sector-led Consortium Deliver on Security, Elections, and Reform? By Patrick Prézeau Stephenson (Le Français suit) PORT-AU-PRINCE — Haiti’s transitional roadmap, adopted by the Presidential Council earlier this year, rests on three pillars: stabilizing security, organizing credible elections, and launching constitutional reform. On paper, these are state functions. In practice, the Haitian state is brittle, its institutions gutted by years of crisis, corruption, and capture. Into that vacuum steps an unlikely actor: the private sector. At the center is an alliance of Haitian business leaders who present themselves as a logistical backbone and coordination engine. The question, however, is not only whether they can deliver, but whether they can do so with legitimacy, accountability, and without repeating the sins of elite capture that have long fueled Haiti’s governance failures. Security: Corridors, Not Sovereignty Haiti’...