Author Name: Carribean Channel, Cuba TV.
This story was originally published on canalcaribe.ict.cu. [1]

Haiti, scene of anti-government protests

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Date: 2021-09

After days of demonstrations and violent disturbances, which reach their sixth consecutive day, calm remains distant in Haiti, the scene of an intense wave of anti-government protests in the country’s main cities.

Those on the streets are calling for the immediate resignation of President Jovenel Moise and his government team, as well as urgent measures to overcome the difficult economic crisis facing the country.

With a budget deficit that exceeds 86 million dollars in the first fiscal quarter, without yet approving the current financial law, inflation of more than 15 percent and the loss of more than 20 percent of the value of the national currency against the dollar in just one year, Haiti is at the bottom of its economic situation since Moise came to power.

The measures dictated last week to reduce state spending and reduce the budget deficit seem not to satisfy protesters, opposition leaders and representatives of civil society organizations, according to which the president must leave the post.

For the economist and political activist Camille Chalmers, the provisions adopted by the Executive are a mockery because they repeat what the Government had decreed in 2017, after the oath of the then Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant, and that after almost two years are not met.

According to the also executive director of the Haitian Platform for the Defense of Alternative Development, despite the financial difficulties the Government continued the increase in expenses and privileges, to the point that a senator costs the State much more than his peers in all Caribbean.

Meanwhile, the crisis in households is growing and the number of people below the poverty line increases, reaching 80 percent of the population and a quarter cannot cover their basic food needs.

In this context, some see the end of Moise’s government and the transition to a transitory administration that allows a new political regime, a new Constitution and redefines the economic guidelines to get out of the prevailing neoliberal logic.

“The transition must be conducted within a consensus, we must negotiate among all the political forces,” Chalmers said and warned of the need to ensure that this period allows the restructuring of political structures.

Others have a more moderate stance that includes the current Government and calls for transparent national dialogue, with all the options on the table, in order to put the country on the path of economic and social development.

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