February 7 now marks Haiti’s highest and lowest historical moments in recent history. ​In 2026, it saw the dissolution of Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council (CPT) and, under the muzzles of Trump administration gunboats, the concentration of all executive power in the hands of a single Haitian bourgeois businessman: de facto Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé.

Sidenote:

I think the newspapers (including Haiti Liberté itself tbh) are doing a bad job of making this explicit in simple clear words, so let me try:

Since the 7th of February, Haiti’s government has ceased to have any semblance of legal backing, from either its constitution, CARICOM or the UN. The Transitional Presidential Council never transitioned, the National Assembly is pretty much abolished and now “Prime Minister” Fils-Aimé wields total executive and legislative power despite never even being a member of the Assembly in the first place. The “government” is literally just some businessmen with a mercenary army, and for the USians out there who need to feel included to care, this is literally just a couple hundred miles off the coast of Florida.

  • ConselheiroOP
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    2 days ago

    There should be a sovereign and popular-democratic Haiti. I think we all here agree that Marxism-Leninism is the best path to that, but that’s up to the Haitian people and spamming all threads about random countries with comments like this is not productive conversation. What are you even trying to achieve here? What even is your conception of what a “Marxist-Leninist Haiti” would look like? Do either the PPD or VA fit your definition?

    It’s already depressing enough that there’s so little attention on the current Haitian struggle on leftist spaces, you don’t need to make it worse with empty declarations. I know I’m being rude, but this is a serious matter, and if you can’t even answer those questions you should restrain yourself.