OAS convenes to emergency symposium on Haiti after criticism from Rubio

[Dolores]

Haiti is enduring the worst crisis in its history with no immediate hopeful improvement in sight.

The Organization of American States (OAS) announced it will host a high-level symposium on Haiti’s security crisis, following public rebukes from US Secretary of State Marco Rubio over the organization’s inaction amidst escalating violence and instability in the Caribbean nation.

The event, organized by Haiti’s Presidential Transition Council (CPT), is scheduled for Thursday, 22 May 2025 at 9am in the Americas Hall at the OAS headquarters in Washington. It will gather Haitian authorities, member state representatives, and international experts.

According to a statement on CPT’s official X (formerly Twitter) account, the symposium was arranged after counselor Smith Augustin met with OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro in April.

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[NanSanPedro]

A high level symposium.

Will there be speeches? How about some memos? Please don't forget the finger wagging.

 

[drstock]

Although people like Windeguy just laugh at events like this, things in Haiti will just continue to get worse if nobody from the international community does anything. In my opinion, anything is better than nothing and we can only hope that something useful will come out of it and for once the intervention of Marco Rubio will have a positive effect.

 

[NanSanPedro]

Although people like Windeguy just laugh at events like this, things in Haiti will just continue to get worse if nobody from the international community does anything. In my opinion, anything is better than nothing and we can only hope that something useful will come out of it and for once the intervention of Marco Rubio will have a positive effect.

Windy isn't the only one who laughs at crap like this.

Hope is not a strategy.

 

[JD Jones]

Rubio was definitely given the DGAF permission by his superior.

I'm betting pretty soon they won't even call him to testify anymore.