Le « consensus national » introuvable en Haïti s’effondre à l’approche du 7 février, tandis que les États-Unis signalent leur soutien à un seul dirigeant
Haiti’s Elusive ‘National Consensus’ Collapses as U.S. Signals return to "Gun Boat Diplomacy" Ahead of Feb. 7 By Patrick Prézeau Stephenson (Le Français suit) PORT-AU-PRINCE — For weeks, Haitian political and civic leaders have tried to do what nearly everyone says the country needs and almost no one agrees on how to achieve: forge a Haitian-led “national consensus” that could steer a transition out of paralysis and violence. Two days before the fateful date of Feb. 7, that effort appears to have failed. In its place, a sharper and more consequential reality has taken hold — one shaped not by a painstaking domestic bargain, but by a sudden consolidation of power and an unmistakable signal from the United States. Senator Marco Rubio, according to Haitian political figures familiar with the communications, has dispatched three U.S. Navy cruisers into the Bay of Port-au-Prince, a move widely read here as a show of force backing the immovability of Haiti’s de facto pri...