by Frances Martel at Breitbart News
Multiple political power brokers in Haiti – and the country’s most prominent gang boss, Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier – vocally rejected a plan on Wednesday enthusiastically backed by the administration of President Joe Biden to create a “Transitional Presidential Council” to replace outgoing Prime Minister Ariel Henry.
Haiti, an unstable country for decades, is experiencing an especially violent wave of chaos this month following Henry’s trip to Kenya to seek aid in the form of Kenyan police participation in a security support mission to stabilize the country. Henry has been prime minister since 2021, when then-President Jovenel Moïse appointed him days before assassins gunned him down in the presidential estate. Haiti has not had a president since Moïse’s assassination.
Upon Henry’s departure to Kenya, criminal gangs led by Cherizier orchestrated a massive prison break that put an estimated 4,000 violent criminals on the streets. The armed militias surrounded the airport, stranding Henry in Puerto Rico, and Cherizier announced that his gangs would facilitate a “genocide” if Henry did not resign. Henry announced he would resign days later, but only on the condition that a “Transitional Presidential Council” be established to replace him and organize a presidential election.
As of Wednesday evening, the possibility of establishing a functional Council appeared dim, as multiple parties invited to form it rejected the plan as unacceptable foreign intervention. Opponents noted that the Council plan was concocted and adopted during a meeting on Monday of the Caribbean Community (Caricom), attended by American Secretary of State Antony Blinken…
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