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Disagreements make it difficult to elect the members of the transitional council in Haiti
Internal disagreements made it difficult on Wednesday to elect the members who will make up the transitional presidential council in Haiti and, even, one of the main parties involved, the Pitit Dessaline, announced that he will not send a representative to that institution.
The creation of the transition council is the result of last Monday’s meeting in the capital of Jamaica, convened by the Caribbean Community (Caricom) to seek a solution to the extreme situation in Haiti and in which representatives of Haitians, the UN and international partners, including the United States, also participated, with its Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the helm.
After that appointment, the Haitian Prime Minister, Ariel Henry, who is in Puerto Rico after staying several days in unknown whereabouts, announced in a message to the nation his resignation from office as soon as the presidential council is constituted because, he said, “no sacrifice is too great” for the country, which “needs peace, stability and lasting development.”
This Wednesday, at a press conference, the leader of Pitit Dessaline, former Senator Jean Charles Moise, announced that his political formation rejects the initiative of the transitional council and will not send a representative, despite being one of the movements, forces and sectors of civil society that should appoint the seven members who will make up the institution along with two observers.
The Pitit Dessalines (Descendants of Dessalines) is a left-wing formation that emerged in February 2017 that is declared open to all those who “share the ideal of Dessalines until the end” (Jean-Jacques Dessalines, father of the independence of Haiti).
This was one of the entities that should designate the components of the presidential council together with the January 30 Collective, Montana Agreement, December 21 Agreement, EDE/RED, the Fanmi Lavalas party and the Private Sector, while the observers will represent the Regrouping by a National and Sovereign Entente (REN) and the Diaspora of Haitians residing abroad.
These actors and formations practically reflect the different sectors of national life in Haiti.
But, in the face of the disagreements that have arisen internally, many of those movements have not yet sent the names of those who will be part of the institution, which must agree on the appointment of an interim prime minister and will prepare the way for the holding of presidential elections.
At the moment, only some of the chosen names have been known, such as that of Edgard Leblanc Fils, of the January 30 Collective.
In addition to the disagreements registered internally, the appointment of representatives may be delayed because some of the people who would be appointed run the risk of having the status of ineligible by not having declared their property.
On Tuesday, the United States considered that the transitional council could be formed in 24 or 48 hours and showed its desire that the appointment of an interim prime minister take place “without delay.”
Several voices were raised against the pact reached at the Caricom meeting, including that of former rebel leader Guy Philippe, who will not be able to be on the presidential council due to a money laundering sentence in the United States.
Before the agreement reached in Jamaica was known, Jimmy Chérizier, alias Barbecue, on behalf of the coalition of armed bands ‘Vivre Ensemble’ (Living Together), also rejected the negotiations of the international community because it is the Haitian people “who must take fate in their hands” and showed their opposition to foreign forces.
On Tuesday, dozens of people demonstrated, with banners and barricades on fire, in front of the embassy in Port-au-Prince of Canada, one of the key foreign actors in the country along with the United States and France, against the transitional presidential council.
Violence increased exponentially in Haiti after it was known on February 28 that Henry had pledged to hold elections before the end of August 2025, despite the fact that in 2022 he reached an agreement with parties, civil society organizations and members of the private sector to leave power on February 7, 2024, which did not happen.
The powerful armed gangs then increased their actions against institutions, companies and prisons, from which more than 3,000 prisoners fled, including members and leaders of gangs, and tried to attack, unsuccessfully, the National Palace and the Ministry of Justice, despite the state of emergency and the curfew in force in the department of the West, where Port-au-Prince is located.
Haiti is awaiting the deployment of the multinational security support mission approved by the UN and led by Kenya, whose president, William Ruto, reaffirmed on Wednesday his country’s commitment to lead that force once the transitional council is appointed.
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China shows at the UN its “condemnation” of Israel for the “violation of Iran’s sovereignty”
The Chinese ambassador to the United Nations, Fu Cong, showed the “condemnation” of his country against the “violation of the sovereignty, security and territorial integrity of Iran” after the air attack launched by Israel against multiple targets in that country, the official newspaper Diario del Pueblo reports this Saturday.
That media echoes Fu’s speech to the UN Security Council on Friday, in which he demanded that Israel “immediately stop all its military actions.”
“China (…) opposes the expansion of conflicts, and is deeply concerned about the serious consequences that may arise from Israel’s actions. The intensification of regional tensions does not interest any of the parties involved,” said the Chinese emissary.
Beijing called on Tel Aviv and Tehran to “resolve their disputes through political and diplomatic means, and maintain peace and stability at the regional level jointly.”
In Fu’s view, the Israeli attack will have a “negative impact” on the negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program: “China has always been committed to the peaceful resolution of the Iranian nuclear issue through dialogue and consultations, and opposes the use of force, illegal unilateral sanctions and armed attacks on peaceful nuclear facilities.”
This Friday, China had already expressed its willingness to “play a constructive role” to curb the escalation of tensions and facilitate conciliation, in line with its traditional position of active neutrality in the region’s conflicts.
The Israeli attack, which according to Tehran caused dozens of deaths, including senior military commanders and at least six nuclear scientists, targeted key facilities such as the uranium enrichment plant in Natanz. Numerous civilian casualties were also reported.
Israel justified the offensive by claiming that the Iranian regime is secretly developing a program to manufacture nuclear weapons.
For his part, Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, promised a “severe response” and assured that the attack would reveal the “evil nature” of Israel.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres also expressed concern about the bombing, at a time when Iran and the US The United States is holding talks about the Iranian nuclear program.
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Donald Trump’s government pauses its program of indiscriminate raides against migrants
The government of US President Donald Trump has decided to pause its campaign of discretionary roundings against migrants in certain areas due to its apparent concern about the growing unpopularity of these methods, according to The New York Times newspaper on Friday.
According to an email to which the newspaper has had access and the confirmation of US officials, the Executive has ordered the Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE) to pause the beatings that affect the agricultural industry and the hospitality industry.
The spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, Tricia McLaughlin, confirmed in a statement that “the president’s instructions” will be obeyed and the portfolio will also continue to “work to get the worst illegal foreign criminals out of the streets of the United States.”
The decision points out that this campaign of discretionary arrests to try to deport large-scale immigrants is harming industries and electoral constituencies whose support Trump wants to retain for next year’s legislative elections.
The new instructions were transmitted to ICE in an email sent last Thursday asking that “all investigations/law enforcement operations be suspended in work centers in the agricultural sector (including aquaculture and meat packing plants), restaurants and hotels.”
These new guidelines come in turn after more than a week of intense protests in Los Angeles against this immigration policy and that Trump himself admitted that the raids seem to be affecting the agricultural sector, which in states like California, where beatings have intensified, depend almost exclusively on immigrant labor.
Since his return to the White House in January, Trump has implemented an aggressive policy of hard hand against immigration and as a sample of his Cabinet officials recently held a meeting with the ICE leadership to order them to carry out 3,000 arrests a day, a mandate that seems to be behind the intensification of the raids.
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Trump says he knew “everything” about the attack on Iran and assures that the dialogue remains open
US President Donald Trump said on Friday that Washington “known everything” about the Israeli attack on Iran and that the dialogue on Tehran’s nuclear program “is not dead.”
“We knew everything and I tried to avoid Iran all this humiliation and death. I tried hard to avoid it because I would have loved to see an agreement,” Trump said in an interview with Reuters.
The US president insisted on what he wrote today about the attack on social networks, where he said he gave an ultimatum of 60 days to Tehran to reach an agreement.
“We knew practically everything. We knew enough to give Iran 60 days to reach an agreement and today it is already 61 days,” he explained in the interview, in which he said he did not know what the current situation of the Iranian nuclear program is after the attack launched by Israel, which also ended the lives of key military leaders of the Persian country.
Regarding the dialogue between the US and Iran about the nuclear program of the ayatollahs, Trump assured that “he is not dead”, that “an agreement is still possible” and also recalled that on Sunday a sixth round of dialogue is scheduled in Muscat (Oman) that they consider is now in the air.
“We have a meeting with them on Sunday. Now, I’m not sure if that meeting will take place, but we have a meeting with them on Sunday,” he said.
The United States and Iran have held five rounds of talks on the Iranian nuclear program since April, with Washington demanding that Tehran discard its capabilities both to manufacture an atomic bomb and to enrich uranium, something that the ayatollahs considered unacceptable.
Both Israel and Trump himself had warned of possible preventive attacks on the Persian country due to this refusal by Iran.
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