Haiti’s uncertain future
The director of the University of Chile’s International Studies Center, Juan Emilio Cheyre, expressed his concerns about the situation in Haiti in an op-ed contribution to Listin Diario on Friday, 12 December. He says he was involved with the peace-making process and recently returned to Haiti, which motivated him to write the piece. Cheyre calls on members of the international community to take a new approach towards Haiti.
He says that Haiti currently survives on international aid funding, and there is an absolute stagnation in the country’s institutions. “I think that in this case the conventional concept of sovereignty should evolve given the existence of a failed state,” he comments. He suggests that different options should be evaluated for a transitory administration - de facto trust or shared sovereignty. While he says this is a drastic option, he says that there is an urgent need to generate governance with [...]
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