A former US ambassador in Haiti testified in the US Congress that thinking out of the box is needed for deciding what to do with the escalating of the multidimensional crisis in Haiti. Pamela A. White says it is time to throw away the gloves and stop pretending that “normal” diplomacy will work in Haiti.
The former diplomat who served in Haiti from 1982 to 85, told the US House Committee on Foreign Relations that while she had seen corruption and gang warfare and hundreds of burning tires as well as demonstrations in the streets and violence against innocent civilians, “I have never seen anything like the total breakdown of civility that is the current situation in Haiti.”
Speaking on the theme “Haiti at the Crossroads: Civil Society Responses for a Haitian-led Solution,” she said in her 40 years serving as a diplomat around the world, “it is time to throw away the gloves and stop pretending that ‘normal” diplomacy will work in Haiti.
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Caribbean National Weekly
4 October 2022