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  Saint-Louis-du-Sud: A deep-water anchorage for Haiti's southern peninsula By Patrick Prézeau Stephenson (Le Français suit) On a clear morning in mid‑January 2025, the quiet, scalloped shoreline of the Baie du Mesle gained a new anchor: the officially opened port of St‑Louis‑du‑Sud. For Haiti’s Sud department, this is more than a ribbon‑cutting. It is a practical bet on geography—on a deep, naturally sheltered bay two days’ sailing from Colombia, on a road corridor that still binds the peninsula to national markets, and on the productive hills and plains that cascade from the Massif de la Hotte toward the Caribbean. What has been built—and what it can do Location and access: The port sits on the east rim of the Baie du Mesle, about 37 km from Les Cayes and roughly 15 km from Cavaillon, linked to National Road 2 by an 8 km spur that remains unpaved. That short, unfinished segment is today the most important piece of transportation infrastructure in sou...

  Haiti’s Washington Test: Can Fils-Aimé Turn Roadmaps into Results in 48 Hours? By Patrick Prézeau Stephenson (Le Français suit) PORT-AU-PRINCE — The stakes for Haiti’s Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé in Washington could hardly be higher. In 48 hours of shuttle diplomacy anchored around a tripartite UN/CARICOM Eminent Persons Group/OAS meeting and a session of the Group of Friends of Haiti, he is seeking more than sympathetic communiqués. He needs hard deliverables: security enablers that actually change the balance on Port‑au‑Prince’s streets, money that arrives on time and on target, and political guardrails that give his government breathing room without mortgaging legitimacy. The context The forum: A rare alignment of the UN, CARICOM’s Eminent Persons Group, and the OAS—three nodes that don’t always move in sync—focused on recalibrating the July OAS “roadmap” and corralling pledges from the Group of Friends (the U.S., Canada, France, Brazil,...