Rumors had been swirling for a week. This Wednesday, the plan to oust Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé moved into the execution phase.

An interminable meeting at the Villa d’Accueil in Musseau, the seat of the Haitian presidency, convened to ratify the power grab by proponents of change at any cost, ran up against the refusal of the coordinator of the Transitional Presidential Council, Laurent Saint-Cyr, to join the head-cutting putschists.