"Blinken's lightning visit last week could nonetheless be considered a success. Nothing bad happened; another $45 million in US humanitarian assistance was promised."
"US policy in Haiti... has been to establish a secure electoral democracy... there has not been an election... since 2016... the two governments that the United States maneuvered into office failed ever to hold a vote."
"Conille's racketty-packetty house of a government, stuffed with rivalrous Haitian political factions... has shown itself so far incapable of arriving at consensus, much less of leading the country to elections."
"It is that very policy that encourages that dysfunction. US policy in Haiti... make demands that create conditions for future political failure, and then blame Haitian dysfunction for that inevitable collapse."
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