“There are statements being made by an individual who’s new to this position that are not necessarily connected to reality,” said Eugene Gerstein, a managing partner of the company who has visited Haiti numerous times.
“We build something, they would turn around and say, ‘You know, we don’t really like that; can you change it?’ And so that has eaten up some time,” he said. “For me, the best way to restore stability for Haiti is to first punish the elites, to tell them that they can no longer finance gangs political instability,” Trudeau said in French on Monday.
Trudeau indicated Monday he was not satisfied by the response. “The United States has started to impose more sanctions; we need them to do a lot more. We need Europe, France, to do more,” he said. Haiti’s unelected government has asked for an international military intervention to clear out the gangs, but the idea is deeply divisive among Haitians.