APPEAL FOR A SOLUTIONS ONLY INTER-HAITIAN DIASPORA DIALOGUE
Fri, Jul 17
|Washington
TO HELP HAITI OUT OF ITS CURRENT AND ENDEMIC SERIES OF CRISES


Time & Location
Jul 17, 2020, 7:00 PM – Jul 18, 2020, 11:00 PM
Washington, Washington, DC, USA
About the Event
Haiti is currently experiencing an unprecedented generalized crisis. Since July 2018, there have been massive demonstrations against the President and his government to protest rising costs of living, taxes leveled on fuel, rampant or blatant corruption gone unpunished (the Petro Caribe dossier), even accusation of corruption leveled against the President. Such intensive popular mobilization and the government’s failure to address their roots causes have resulted in high levels of insecurity, loss of lives, arbitrary destruction of property; disruption of trade and business activities; interruption of basic services including school closure for children for months. Such conditions were further incited by numerous unruly senators and deputes who blocked the functioning of parliament to establish a government. Consequently, the country locked (peyi lok) and the resounding cry of various sectors of the society and a massive percentage of the masses has for the resignation of President Moise as a way out…