En Haïti, nommer la guerre pour mieux la finir
In Haiti, naming the war to better end it By Patrick Prézeau Stephenson * (Le français suit) PORT-AU-PRINCE — At dawn, the streets open or close to the rhythm of rumors: such and such a road has held, such and such a market has folded, such and such a school will not open. Daily life seems to be confined to corridors that are lit intermittently. In a country where the "crisis" has been described so much that it has almost lost words, one thing is clear: Haiti is at war — an asymmetrical war against the very routine of living. This truth, long diluted in the euphemisms of the "transition", invites us to make a simple and radical choice: stop entrusting the future to arrangements of continuity that replay the same play, and instead bring together all the forces willing to build a fairer and more republican nation, breaking with political dependence and the parody of democracy that only gives birth to contested elections. The question is no longer rhetorical:...