Adjustments: For What Results?

Observing the constant shuffle of leaders at the top of the state, one might believe that Haiti is experiencing an era of profound reforms. In reality, the country is merely witnessing a dance, where each change of seat conceals the eternal stagnation of a floundering transition. A CPT president here, a Prime Minister there, a director-general dismissed, replaced, recycled… Haiti lives to the rhythm of a grotesque game of musical chairs.

Indeed, presidents of the Transitional Presidential Council are changed like outfits: every five months, a new figure takes office, promises renewal… and promptly disappears into the same torpor. Prime Ministers are replaced, cabinets are rearranged, director-generals are recycled.

Statements follow one another, installation ceremonies multiply, but in the streets of Port-au-Prince as in the countryside, life remains the same: hard, insecure, without prospects.

This transition has become a theater of shadows, where leaders play at who will control power, while the country collapses. Political maneuvers, power struggles, clan calculations: this is the true agenda. Meanwhile, Haitians must alone confront endemic insecurity, economic collapse, social misery, and a political crisis that seems eternal.

As the deadline of February 7, 2026, approaches, a question arises: what, then, has this transition accomplished? Nothing, except to prove that it has neither vision nor courage. No progress on security. No elections in sight. No institutional reforms. Nothing, but empty speeches and a morbid obsession with retaining power.

They change everything, but nothing changes. Because changing faces is not enough when practices remain the same. Haiti can no longer afford this illusion of movement that makes no progress. If nothing shifts by 2026, the current transition will be just another chapter in the great book of our missed appointments with history.

Gesly Sinvilier