Au nom de qui parlent-ils ? L’OEA reçoit cinq voix à l’Oasis, Haïti réclame des preuves
In whose name do they speak? OAS Receives Five Votes at OASIS, Haiti Demands Evidence By Patrick Prézeau Stephenson (Le Français suit) Why the legitimacy of the interlocutors matters — and how a transparent list can widen the table The meeting was small and discreet, behind the windows of the Oasis Hotel in PétionVille, the kind of place where the power in Haiti sometimes tries to look normal. According to several testimonies, the Organization of American States met yesterday with five Haitian figures, most of them from the health sector. The room was quiet. The country, outside, was not. And the question that circulated, in living rooms, on WhatsApp and in the street, was old but sharp: in whose name are they speaking? There is nothing petty or localist about this question. It touches on something fundamental that has been distorting Haiti's public life for years: a narrow funnel of interlocutors, solicited again and again to speak on behalf of "civil society,"...