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  Haiti’s February 7 Reckoning: Four “Transitions,” One Missing State   By Patrick Prézeau Stephenson *  (Le Français suit) PORT-AU-PRINCE — Haiti is approaching a date that has become less a constitutional milestone than a national test of survival: February 7, 2026, the moment the current transition framework is supposed to end. Yet the country is entering that deadline with the core ingredients of democratic succession still absent — territorial control, credible institutions, and public trust. Into that vacuum, four competing blueprints for a post–February 7 order have begun to circulate, each claiming the mantle of legitimacy. Together, they reveal a deeper truth about Haiti’s predicament: the debate is no longer only about  who  should govern, but about whether Haiti still has the institutional scaffolding to produce a government that is both lawful and workable. A legal argument in a country where legality has collapsed The most straightforward ...

    “Haiti’s Civil Society Revolt: Can a ‘Government of the Wises’ Succeed Where the Politicians Failed?”   By Patrick Prézeau Stephenson *  (Le français suit)   In late 2025, as Haiti staggers through yet another season of fear and disillusionment, a coalition of civil society organizations has stepped onto the national stage with a proposition that is, in equal measure, audacious and overdue. The text they have circulated is framed as a call to rescue the republic. It opens with an appeal to imagination: a Haiti “finally master of its own destiny,” where gangs no longer rule neighborhoods, institutions function, citizens participate, and “national decisions are no longer dictated by foreign interests.” It is the kind of language Haitians have heard before, and learned to distrust. What makes this document different is not its rhetoric, but the political architecture it proposes—and the fact that, this time, the authors are not politicians. They cal...