Haitian Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé says law enforcement authorities are making “some serious inroads” into gang-controlled areas and remains confident that national elections can be held before the end of the year.
Speaking to the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) on the margins of the CARICOM leaders’ summit, Fils-Aimé said security forces have begun regaining territory in the capital.
Au Sommet de la Caricom, c’est à un exercice d’équilibriste que se prête le secrétaire d’Etat américain Marco Rubio, défenseur des méthodes musclées de Washington dans la Caraïbe pour, selon lui et son président, ramener l’ordre, lutter contre le narcotrafic, la circulation des armes et l’immigration clandestine.
In a ceremony Monday, Fils-Aimé described the agreement as “a contract” designed to put the country on the road toward stability, elections and security. “The stability of a country doesn’t depend solely on security in the streets and the neighborhoods,” he said.
The pact doesn’t provide an end date for the current governmental transition, the third since the July 7, 2021, assassination of President Jovenel Moïse plunged the country deeper into instability.