Haïti Liberté journalist Kim Ives and Haïti Liberté columnist Kervens Louissaint discuss the political situation in Haiti, in particular an article this week, entitled “Like Father, Like Son,” drawing on secret U.S. Embassy cables obtained by Wikileaks and published by Haiti Liberté.
The article explores the through-line of policies and politicians used by the U.S. empire to deal with the armed uprising of Haiti’s ghettoes from 2006 to 2026. The piece shows how current de facto Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé’s father, Alix “Boulon” Fils-Aimé, two decades ago had the same agenda of countering “gangs” from Haiti’s slums, which were fighting against a coup d’état and foreign military intervention.
Ives and Louissaint also discuss the hot-water and controversy in which Pierre Espérance, head of the National Network for the Defense of Human Rights (RNDDH), finds himself in the wake of the recently concluded trial in Miami for the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse and charges by Sherlson Sanon that the RNDDH has been providing food and other support to the 17 Colombian mercenaries imprisoned in Haiti, who took part in the magnicide.
Ives and Louissaint also review the recent article by Travis Ross in Haiti Liberté on how Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) wants to change the electoral law to limit candidates in Haiti’s next election.
