Here's What Some Foreign Observers Think of Our Situation
By La Rédaction · Port-au-Prince · · 2 min read · Updated 24 April 2026
Translated from French — AI-assisted and reviewed by the editorial team. The French version is authoritative. Read the original · About our translation policy
Journalist Jacqueline Charles, from the Miami Herald, wrote on her X account:
“There is a disease that does not yet have a name. It is senseless that, in a country like Haiti, with all the problems it faces, no 'leader' is genuinely interested in finding solutions. On the contrary, they are desperately striving to remain in power after February 7.”
This external perspective, however severe, is not without foundation.
For my part, I remain convinced that Haiti will not overcome its challenges without a clear plan, a precise agenda, and an assumed collective vision.
If it is always the same actors, those very ones who led the country into a deadlock, who are now vying for the right to prolong disorder and worsen chaos, then it must be said directly: we will not get out of it. The problem is not just the absence of legitimate power.
It is deeper. It lies in the absence of a project, the dilution of responsibility, and the stubborn refusal to break with practices whose failure is nevertheless documented, repeated, and undeniable. It is precisely in this spirit that a regional plan, currently being adapted to the constraints of the transition, is proposed for national debate. This plan was conceived and developed by Alin Louis Hall, surrounded by some of the most competent Haitian technocrats. He is now its spokesperson, not out of personal ambition, but out of intellectual consistency and a sense of public interest. Political leaders should agree to give time to collective intelligence. The business sector should
understand the historical stakes and measure the real cost of inaction, cynicism, and short-sighted calculations. Because by constantly refusing to react, postponing a break, and despising lucidity, it is not only a state that we are exhausting, but an entire society that we are exposing to collapse. And no people can afford that for long. Yves Lafortune, Miami
If it is always the same actors, those very ones who led the country into a deadlock, who are now vying for the right to prolong disorder and worsen chaos, then it must be said directly: we will not get out of it. The problem is not just the absence of legitimate power.
It is deeper. It lies in the absence of a project, the dilution of responsibility, and the stubborn refusal to break with practices whose failure is nevertheless documented, repeated, and undeniable. It is precisely in this spirit that a regional plan, currently being adapted to the constraints of the transition, is proposed for national debate. This plan was conceived and developed by Alin Louis Hall, surrounded by some of the most competent Haitian technocrats. He is now its spokesperson, not out of personal ambition, but out of intellectual consistency and a sense of public interest. Political leaders should agree to give time to collective intelligence. The business sector should
understand the historical stakes and measure the real cost of inaction, cynicism, and short-sighted calculations. Because by constantly refusing to react, postponing a break, and despising lucidity, it is not only a state that we are exhausting, but an entire society that we are exposing to collapse. And no people can afford that for long. Yves Lafortune, Miami
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