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Articles by Georges Fauriol
Is U.S. Haiti Policy an Opportunity for Success?
U.S. foreign policymakers would do well to refocus attention on the Caribbean, especially Haiti, even as they struggle to end the costly on-and-off conflict with Iran. The Trump administration began the year with the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, in a swift, tactically flawless operation. President Trump has boasted that he will soon have the “honor” of taking Cuba, where the Communist regime struggles to provide even basic services.
Haiti Embarks on Another Rocky Political Transition
While the media focuses on Venezuela, Cuba, Greenland, and Iran, the State Department has been quietly shaping an international response to the crisis in Haiti, anchored in the deployment of the Gang Suppression Force (GSF), a UN-supported military and police mission established last September and charged with defeating the gangs that control much of Port-au-Prince and large swaths of the countryside.
U.S.-Caribbean Relations: The Cost of Postponing the 2025 Summit of the Americas
Largely ignored amid news of the U.S. military deployment in the Caribbean was a brief statement from the Dominican Republic (DR), host country for the 10th Summit of the Americas, announcing that it would postpone the triennial gathering, scheduled for early December, citing “the deep differences that currently make productive dialogue difficult.” With Haiti in turmoil and Venezuela facing possible U.S. military intervention, postponing the 10th Summit of the Americas may have seemed the...
The United States Votes to Establish a Haiti Gang Suppression Force: Now What?
The UN Security Council has approved deployment of a more muscular international security mission to Haiti with a mandate to “neutralize” the criminal groups that have long terrorized the country. The September 30 resolution, cosponsored by the United States and Panama, would create a new Gang Suppression Force (GSF) with as many as 5,500 members and empowered to target the gangs proactively.
The Trump Administration Wants to Establish a UN Support Office in Haiti-Now What?
The announcement late last week of a Trump administration plan to move forward with a push in the UN Security Council to establish a UN Support Office in Haiti is significant.
Why the United States Can’t Afford to Ignore Haiti’s Collapse: Key Questions
Fueled by an open flow of drugs and weapons trafficking, Haiti, as a failed state in the middle of the Caribbean, will undermine U.S. partners in the region. Without a robust policy engagement, the two baseline imperatives that frame U.S. thinking toward Haiti, (a) no U.S. boots on the ground, and (b) Haiti is a regional concern, not just a U.S. one, will become moot as the country implodes into a crisis with wider regional implications. In other words, the crisis in Haiti will not stay in Haiti.
What Does U.S. Policy Success Look Like in Haiti?
KEY TAKEAWAYS Haiti’s spiraling crisis could impact U.S. security interests throughout the Western Hemisphere. To address it, U.S. leadership can encourage regional actors to broaden their engagement. In Haiti, U.S. policy should surge to improve security and help Haitian leaders on the road to elections. KEY TAKEAWAYS Haiti’s spiraling crisis could impact U.S. security interests throughout the Western Hemisphere.
Four Questions that Could Determine Haiti’s Future
Much has happened in Haiti over the past two weeks — none of it is reassuring. The Transitional Presidential Council (TPC) fired Prime Minister Garry Conille on November 10, after only six months in office. Moments before an interim prime minister was sworn in the next day, a U.S. commercial airliner was struck by gunfire, forcing a pause in flights to Haiti’s international airport.
Georges Fauriol on the Ouster of Haiti’s Interim Prime Minister
U.S. Institute of Peace experts discuss the latest foreign policy issues from around the world in On Peace, a brief weekly collaboration with SiriusXM's POTUS Channel 124. Transcript Laura Coates: Joining us now is Georges Fauriol, a senior advisor with the Latin America program at USIP. Good morning to you. How are you? Georges Fauriol: Good morning, Laura, good to be here. Laura Coates: I'm glad that you're here today.
Four Ways the U.S. Can Help Advance Haiti’s Progress
This article was originally published by the U.S. Institute of Peace. Since Haiti reached a political agreement in early April to push ahead with an “orderly transition,” much progress has been made. Mediated by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), that deal has a February 2026 timetable for an elected government and parliament.
Four Ways the U.S. Can Help Advance Haiti’s Progress
Since Haiti reached a political agreement in early April to push ahead with an “orderly transition," much progress has been made. Mediated by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), that deal has a February 2026 timetable for an elected government and parliament. Although politically and administratively wobbly, a transitional governance structure is in place, led by a Transition Presidential Council (TPC) and Prime Minister Garry Conille.
The Global South, Latin America, and the U.S. Interest
The Russo-Ukrainian War and the Gaza-Israel conflict have brought an uneasy reawakening of the differing strategic interests of the “Global South” and “Global North.” Although the term “Global South” is an ill-defined, twenty-first-century conceptual re-imagining of the Cold War-era Non-Aligned Movement, it indicates that a significant portion of the world is searching for an independent path between membership in a democratically-oriented U.S.-led camp or allegiance and subjugation to a...
Meeting the Moment: The Role of the Diaspora in Haiti’s Future
In early July, Haitian Prime Minister Gary Conille made his first visit to Washington, where he sought to mobilize the Haitian diaspora to be more active in restoring Haiti’s governance, security and development, as he pushed back against the “Haiti fatigue” that afflicts official Washington. Haiti’s diaspora is an important asset to multinational efforts to address the crises the country faces today and could be a critical factor in building a sustainable and prosperous future.
The U.S. Needs A Real Cuba Policy
Cuba’s communist political system, in power since 1959, is probably in its terminal stage. Beset by longstanding and gross economic mismanagement, deep-rooted corruption, and over half a century of U.S. economic sanctions, the island of eleven million is lurching toward an endgame for the ruling class.
What Haiti Needs from the U.S. and International Community
There is no doubt that this fragile structure will benefit from the international community’s energetic support, particularly from the U.S. Still, no amount of support will be effective unless Haiti’s new leaders put aside personal ambition and partisan aspirations and cooperate. “Fragile” is the key word here, if not a profound understatement. Haiti has been embroiled in political turmoil since the beginning of late President Jovenel Moïse’s term in 2017.
Haiti: The 90-day Window of Opportunity
Source: Ralph Tedy Erol/Reuters. In the wake of the announcement of a Kenyan police-security deployment to Haiti, public attention to the crisis the country is facing shifted from general appeals for multilateral action to concerns that the Kenyan deployment would not resolve the crisis—simultaneously the logic of a fourth international intervention in a span of three decades.
Haiti’s Humanitarian and Political Crash
Source: AP Photo / Odelyn Joseph. Haiti is headed toward a catastrophic humanitarian and political crash. With an estimated 90 percent of the Port-au-Prince region under the chaotic control of gangs, kidnappings remain a lucrative trade (389 recorded incidents in the 1st quarter of 2023). Societal life—including the operation of schools—is essentially shut down. Haiti is halfway off the cliff.
Paralysis: The International Community’s Response to the Crisis in Haiti
The commentary was originally published in Global Americans on March 17, 2023, and has been updated since publication to include developments from the March 24 Biden-Trudeau meeting. The feasibility of international support to address Haiti’s crisis has been months in the making.
Paralysis: The International Community’s Response to the Crisis in Haiti
Source: Richard Pierrin/ AFP via Getty Images. The feasibility of international support to address Haiti’s crisis has been months in the making. This has also generated a slew of high-level U.S., Canadian, and other visitors to Haiti as well as special sessions at the United Nations (UN), the Organization of American States (OAS), and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)—highlighting the urgency for international action.
Follow this road map. It can take Haiti from violent chaos to progress and peace | Guest Opinion
A RUSSIAN warship armed with “unstoppable” hypersonic missiles is sailing towards the US coast in a show of strength, reports claim. The guided missile frigate Admiral Gorshkov has been closely monitored by Nato navies on its maiden voyage armed with 6,670mph Zircon weapons. An unconfirmed Russian Telegram channel... 2 DAYS AGO
Follow this road map. It can take Haiti from violent chaos to progress and peace | Guest Opinion
The rudiments of a loose international plan for Haiti are emerging — centered on providing increased support for the Haitian National Police, nudging political factions to coalesce around a governing pact and offering humanitarian assistance. But will it be enough, given the multiple complex problems Haiti confronts? As three long-term observers of the country, we argue that a more assertive international response is needed and offer the following road map to help Haiti reset.
Haiti’s Problematic Electoral Dynamics
January 10, 2022 This commentary was originally published in Global Americans on December 21, 2021. If there is a consensus among most of Haiti’s political factions and, belatedly, among much of the international community, it is that rushing toward elections in 2022 is unrealistic and simply dangerous for both voters and candidates. Beyond the current headlines about insecurity and political paralysis lies a political time bomb associated with Haiti’s dysfunctional electoral dynamics.
Adrift: U.S.-Haiti Policy
November 2, 2021 This commentary was originally published in Global Americans on October 22, 2021.
Haiti in Crisis: What Role Can the International Community Play?
Monday, September 13, 2021 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Add to Calendar Email This field is required. The email to associate with this registration. First name This field is required. Last name This field is required. Leave this field blank Ask Live Questions Here The event will be webcast live from this page. Please join the CSIS Americas Program for a livestream discussion on the recent political crises and natural disasters in Haiti, and on the path forward for recovery.
Hotbed Haiti: Crisis Conditions Create Fortuity for America
The Haitian government’s request for a U.S. peacekeeping presence, and the Biden administration’s more limited deployment of a small team of investigators and forensics experts, nonetheless sets in motion the now common response to crisis in Haiti—a multilayered response by the international community. The latter now has thirty-plus years of experience as well as a frustratingly narrow record of achievements.
Strengthening U.S.-Caribbean relations through the Caribbean diaspora
Source: Caribbean National Weekly / Paul Stein The United States-based Caribbean diaspora, as diverse as the region itself, constitutes a mosaic of communities. Some may be more institutionalized than others, but collectively they encompass significant policy potential, and in the process, are perhaps among the strongest drivers of U.S.-Caribbean relations.
Is Haiti a failing state?
Is Haiti a failing state? Or is it, as they say in French, “a la dérive?” The expression more accurately depicts what is happening in Haiti, providing the image of a drifting vessel at the mercy of currents, moving toward an inevitable disaster. Several factors seem to point in this, drifting, direction. Political dysfunction. Haiti has not had a functioning government since the dismissal of Prime Minister Jean-Henry Céant in mid-March.
Is Haiti a Failing State?
June 10, 2019 A version of this article was first published by the Global Americans on June 6, 2019. Is Haiti a failing state? Or is it, as they say in French, “a la dérive?” The expression more accurately depicts what is happening in Haiti, providing the image of a drifting vessel at the mercy of currents, moving toward an inevitable disaster. Several factors seem to point in this, drifting, direction. Political dysfunction.
Haiti: The elements of a crisis
The destructive violence that engulfed Haiti’s capital, Port au Prince, earlier this month was triggered by a spike in the price of gasoline, but the escalation was more likely a reflection of the brittle state of Haitian governance.
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