As Washington Looks to Caracas, Haiti’s Interim Rulers Plot a Permanent Stay Via Beijing

While the world’s cameras and the US State Department’s attention are fixed on the dramatic extraction of Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela, a quieter but potentially more volatile geopolitical shift is underway across the Caribbean Sea.

In Haiti, the transitional experiment has collapsed. But the interim government, led by the Transitional Presidential Council (CPT) and Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, is not preparing to hand over power.

Instead, observers on the ground warn that...