--- title: "Updated: Plans to Install New Leaders In Haiti Crumble" type: "post" post_id: "5769" slug: "plans-to-install-new-leaders-in-haiti-crumble" canonical: "https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2024/03/13/plans-to-install-new-leaders-in-haiti-crumble/" markdown_url: "https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2024/03/13/plans-to-install-new-leaders-in-haiti-crumble.md" json_url: "https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2024/03/13/plans-to-install-new-leaders-in-haiti-crumble.json" txt_url: "https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2024/03/13/plans-to-install-new-leaders-in-haiti-crumble.txt" published: "2024-03-13T21:00:04+00:00" modified: "2024-03-13T22:02:39+00:00" author: "penny2" categories: - "Uncategorized" tags: - "Canada" - "Haiti" - "US" site_name: "PFYT2" publisher: "" language: "en-US" generator: "easyPress Markdown" generator_version: "1.0.6" --- **Whose plan was it to install new leaders in Haiti?** **In the early days, at my previous site, Haiti got a fair bit of coverage. For the simple reason that Canada always played a heavy hand in the ongoing misery in that impoverished nation.** **[ABC News](https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/plan-install-new-leaders-haiti-appears-crumble-after-108086417)** > A proposal to install new leadership in Haiti appears to be crumbling as s**ome political parties rejected the plan to create a presidential council that would manage the transition** > > **Jean Charles Moïse, an ex-senator and presidential candidate who has teamed up with former rebel leader Guy Philippe, held a news conference Wednesday to announce his rejection of the proposed council` backed by the international community.`** > > Moïse insisted that a three-person presidential council he recently created with Philippe and a Haitian judge should be implemented. > > ***“We are not going to negotiate it,” he said in a loud voice as he wiped his forehead with a handkerchief. “We have to `make them understand."`*** > > **His ally Philippe**, who helped lead a successful revolt in 2004 against former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and was **recently released from a U.S. prison after pleading guilty to money laundering, said `no Haitian should accept any proposal from the international community.`** > > In a video posted Tuesday on social media, **Philippe accused the community of being complicit with Haiti’s elite and corrupt politicians** and urged Haitians to take to the streets. > > ***“The decision of Caricom is not our decision,”*** he said, referring to the regional trade bloc whose leaders presented the plan to create a transitional council. “***Haitians will decide who will govern Haiti.***” ##### [Caricom and Canada](https://www.international.gc.ca/world-monde/international_relations-relations_internationales/latin_america-amerique_latine/caricom.aspx?lang=eng)– A Freshly launched strategic partnership > **Launch of the Canada-CARICOM strategic partnership** > **Pursuant to the Co-Chairs’ Statement of the Second Meeting of the Canada-CARICOM Foreign Ministers’ Group, the Canada-`CARICOM Strategic Partnership is hereby launched by Leaders at the Canada-CARICOM Summit in Ottawa, 18 October 2023.`** > **Other high-profile Haitian politicians declined to participate in the proposed transitional council.** Among them were Himmler Rébu, former colonel of Haiti’s army and president of the Grand Rally for the Evolution of Haiti, a party that is part of a coalition awarded a spot on the transitional council. > > **Caribbean leaders who announced the plan for the transitional council did not respond to messages for comment.** > > **The plan emerged late Monday following an urgent meeting involving Caribbean leaders,**` U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken `and others who were searching for a solution to halt Haiti’s crisis of violence. > > ***Hours after the meeting, Henry announced Tuesday that he would resign once the council was in place, saying that his government “cannot remain insensitive to this situation.”*** > > **Henry remains locked out of Haiti because gang attacks have shuttered the country’s airports. He is currently in Puerto Rico.** > > **The gang attacks began Feb. 29, when Henry was in Kenya to push for the U.N.-backed deployment of a Kenyan police force**. **The deployment has been temporarily suspended.** **This is a rather familiar scenario. I’ll explain in short order** **Update begins- March 13/24 just before 6:00pm est** [via the State Department](https://www.state.gov/secretary-blinkens-call-with-president-ruto/) > The below is attributable to Spokesperson Matthew Miller: > > ***Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke with Kenyan President William Ruto today to discuss the expeditious deployment of the Multinational Security Support mission*** ***to provide security and stability to the Haitian people***, **including immediate next steps to facilitate deployment.** **Notice the lack of concern for the Palestinian people in Gaza as Israel continues it’s ethnic cleansing, from Blinken and pals. Clearly different goals and agendas are at play!** > Secretary Blinken and President Ruto **underscored the United Nations Security Council’s stated expectation that the Multinational Security Support mission to Haiti deploy as soon as possible to provide support to the Haitian National Police**. **Secretary Blinken updated President Ruto on commitments by the United States and other international partners to support the mission.** **I’ve also added a link regarding Canada and CARICOM’s Strategic Partnership- Freshly launched in October 2023**