On Feb. 7, the seven-person Transitional Presidential Council (TPC), which was set in place in 2024 to “govern” Haiti, will end its mandate, with nothing in sight to replace it. The TPC’s creation was engineered in March 2024 by then-U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken, during a CARICOM meeting in Jamaica, at which he personally selected the names of its members. It has never been anything but a dysfunctional group of elites, who fought constantly, while the suffering nation collapsed into Gaza-like conditions of unimaginable gang violence, poverty, hunger, and displacement. The UN today has been unable to meet even vastly reduced quotas to finance humanitarian aid programs.
As of this writing, the State Department has sanctioned five of the seven TPC members and revoked their visas for having ties to gangs and for trying to delay elections. Despite the horrific security situation, the U.S. has insisted that elections be held, although no specific date has been agreed upon. According to the Miami Herald on Feb. 3, at least five separate groups are vying for a role in whatever transitional apparatus might succeed the TPC.
