Laurent Saint-Cyr is doing as his predecessors did. He is working with the three individuals indicted for corruption in the BNC corruption scandal—figures deemed essential to the functioning of the Transitional Presidential Council (CPT). Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, anointed by the Council to enter and remain at the Prime Minister’s Office, is playing his political cards well. In a position of strength on the political chessboard, this executive, currently operating in near fusion, is taking its first steps.

Rameau Normil, a “DG a.i. without a record,” has been ousted. Removed from his post, he has been replaced by a “trusted man,” Vladimir Paraison. Installed on Friday, August 8, Mr. Paraison began taking control of the HNP, placing trusted figures in key directorates. In recent months, the HNP has lost more than fifteen armored vehicles in various theaters of operation, with about ten more out of service, according to a reliable source. A shipment of about thirty armored vehicles from two companies is expected to arrive in Port-au-Prince at a time when more than three billion gourdes from the HNP’s investment budget were left unused, we have learned.