Robert Malval: The Band of Four

The recent tweet from presidential advisor Emmanuel Vertilaire publicly reminding Fritz Alphonse Jean that he is not the President of the Republic and cannot exercise political authority alone highlights the tensions that will ultimately undermine the Transitional Presidential Council. Already nearly devoid of vitality—if it ever had any—the nine-branched tree that is the Council will wither and fall if the rising wind turns into a storm. The stone thrown into the pond by the representative of the Pitit Dessalines party at the ne