Les politiciens sont la crise : pourquoi l'élite haïtienne ne peut pas sauver un État qu'elle n'a jamais été conçue pour servir
The Politicians Are the Crisis: Why Haiti's Elite Cannot Save a State It Was Never Built to Serve A dialogue with Me Jonel Dilhomme, in light of the Appel du Lambi Manifesto By Patrick Prézeau Stephenson* (Le Français suit) There is a quiet violence in the way we keep asking the wrong question about Haiti. The question we keep asking — and Me Jonel Dilhomme, in his recent essay, asks it with more rigor than most — is whether Haiti's political actors are ready to place the survival of the state above their rivalries. It is a generous question. It assumes the readiness is dormant rather than absent, that the will exists somewhere and merely awaits the right historical pressure, the right international nudge, the right citizen mobilization to surface. I want to suggest, with respect to Maître Dilhomme's careful diagnosis, that the question itself is the trap. We have been asking it, in one form or another, since 1806. We asked it after the fall of Duvalier. We...
