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Embattled Haitian President Vague About Making Life Better for His People

Agence France-Presse

   PORT-AU-PRINCE - Haitians fed up with poverty call him corrupt and
   incompetent and want him to resign, but President Jovenel Moise is
   evasive about yielding and offers only vague ideas for making things
   better.

   The poorest country in the Americas has been roiled for two months by
   protests that were triggered by fuel shortages and have now turned
   violent.

   And they have morphed into a broader campaign against the president,
   who come to power in 2017 in an election that some called fraudulent.

   Asked if he would consider ending his term early, Moise said Tuesday in
   exclusive interview with AFP that he is not "attached to power" but
   rather "attached to reforms because this country has been suffering for
   decades."

   He said his priorities were constitutional reform, changes to the
   energy sector, instituting use of computers throughout all government
   agencies and customs reform.

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