CARICOM's Haiti Mediation Tests the Limits of Regional Diplomacy

The bloc helped stand up Haiti's transitional council. Holding it together, while gang violence continues, is a far harder assignment than convening it.

CARICOM's Eminent Persons Group has spent two years as one of the few outside actors both sides of Haiti's political divide would still talk to. That role helped produce the Transitional Presidential Council in 2024, a body charged with steering Haiti toward elections.

The council has since been strained by infighting and by a security situation that an international mission has struggled to contain. CARICOM's leverage is moral rather than material, which is both the source of its credibility and the ceiling on its power.

For a region that prizes non-interference, Haiti is the case that keeps testing whether solidarity can be operational. The answer so far is a qualified, and fragile, yes.