1804 Institute

Interests: Haiti; Black Leadership; Resistance Movements.

[1804 Institute @1804Institute]

@RenaldLuberice @fhfhaiti " Mèsi Grenadye" a kòrèk. " Mèsi Migné" a, se tankou nap remesiè echèk...Fòk nou gin abitid responsabilize moun ki vrèman kòz échèk nou...Kesyon nou tout responsab, mwen pa konin, se pa fòt mwen dwé fini...Migné se youn nan responsab yo. Pwen bar...

[1804 Institute @1804Institute]

"Vertières"...Ca casse les couilles....toujours....
Check out https://t.co/KXGyRhcDCh Production's video! #TikTok https://t.co/5MwREB2sHP

[1804 Institute @1804Institute]

Yet, 12M folks who experience daily struggles there would say no progress at all. No gang leaders captured; no national roads opened; no major airlines landing in PaP; police officers being killed daily; 400 deaths in Q1. 2026 alone. What in the world is your measure of progress?

[ErikDPrince @realErikDPrince]

I was just in Haiti. This is not the end, or even the beginning of the end, but definitely the end of the beginning. (Paraphrasing Churchill) Progress is being made. It is definitely better than when we started, with Haiti on the verge of total collapse a year ago. Stay tuned as we work with the Haitian Government to open more roads and remove the scourge of gang control.

[Robenson Geffrard @robbygeff]

Sa pa fè okenn sans pou Woodensky Pierre, jwè seleksyon nasyonal ekip football #Haiti a ki kalifye pou Koup dimond lan ak kèk lòt manm delegasyon ayisyèn nan gen sousi viza USA. Depi 24 me lòt Grenadye yo kòmanse antrene san jwè a ! Sa pa fè okenn sans... @USEmbassyHaiti

[Nathalie Yamb @Nath_Yamb]

I recorded this video in English for Kenyans and Tanzanians 18 months ago. It discusses France’s redeployment to East Africa after being expelled from the Sahel and Francophone Africa. What I predicted is now happening… Beware, the French are coming.

[1804 Institute @1804Institute]

Check out Juner Cast88's video! #TikTok https://t.co/o76ZiivkS3

[Marcel @illnevercallitx]

That's it. That's the best picture from Saturday's No Kings protests in the USA.

The literal Statue of Liberty being detained by police. It doesn't get much more poetic than this.

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

Anderson Cooper’s high school math teacher, Yves Volel, returned to his home country of Haiti and ran for president in 1987 but was later assassinated.

Despite the Haitian government's efforts to destroy all the recordings, CBS News was able to broadcast audio of the shooting. “It was an extraordinary thing when I was a teenager to witness… it continued my desire to learn more about Haiti,” Cooper told 60 Minutes Overtime.

https://t.co/xjz16baxID

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

The US - and I cannot stress this enough - is the bad guy in virtually every situation.

No empire in world history has ever held this much power.

[1804 Institute @1804Institute]

Science & Technology in Haiti?.... https://t.co/3QCrNIsYOb

[1804 Institute @1804Institute]

So, help me understand:

USA, ~ 700 miles from Haiti, but no US involvement
"alone"...GSF is needed. The neighbors must pitch in.

Yet...

USA, ~ 2,000 miles from Ecuador, no GSF is needed. Alone, "we can go in" and support Ecuador's fight directly.
What is not matching here?

[U.S. Embassy Haiti @USEmbassyHaiti]

Chèf gang brital yo pran kontwòl peyi d Ayiti, toupre kòt nou yo. Peyi Etazini pa ta dwe oblije aji poukont li pou mete fen nan kokennchenn dezòd sa a.
Vwazen nou yo gen enterè ak tout responsablite pou ede nou mete fen nan vyolans ann Ayiti, pandan gang yo ap fè dwòg ak kriminèl antre Ozetazini, an Ewòp ak an Amerik di Sid.
Se poutèt sa nou mete sou pye Fòs Sipresyon Gang lan, avèk sipò Nasyonzini, pou retabli lòd.
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Des chefs de gangs brutaux ont pris le contrôle d'Haïti, juste au large de nos côtes. Les États-Unis ne devraient pas avoir à agir seuls pour mettre fin au chaos.
Nos voisins ont à la fois l'intérêt et la responsabilité de nous aider à mettre fin à la violence en Haïti, alors que les gangs font entrer de la drogue et envoient des criminels aux États-Unis, en Europe et en Amérique du Sud.
C'est pourquoi nous avons créé la Force de répression des gangs, avec le soutien des Nations Unies afin de rétablir l’ordre.

[1804 Institute @1804Institute]

@AJEnglish Wowww....

[1804 Institute @1804Institute]

En aidant l’UniQ, vous avez aidé la société Haïtienne ! Alors Merci. https://t.co/sMDO5C9vHf

[1804 Institute @1804Institute]

Check out GANA's video! #TikTok https://t.co/s4Fh1aXxSi

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am a diplomatic aide in the Sultanate of Oman's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

My job is logistics. When two countries that cannot speak to each other need to speak to each other, I book the rooms. I prepare the briefing materials. I make sure the water glasses are the right distance apart. You would be surprised how much of diplomacy is water glasses. Too close and it feels informal. Too far and it feels like a tribunal. I have a chart.

We had a very good month.

Since January, Oman has been mediating indirect talks between the United States and Iran on Iran's nuclear program. The talks were held in Muscat and in Geneva. The Americans would sit in one room. The Iranians would sit in another room. I would walk between them. My Fitbit says I averaged fourteen thousand steps on negotiation days. The hallway between the two rooms at the Royal Opera House conference center is forty-seven meters. I walked it two hundred and twelve times in February. This is good for my cardiovascular health. It was less good for my knees. Both are in the service of peace.

By mid-February, we had something.

Iran agreed to zero stockpiling of enriched uranium. Not reduced stockpiling. Zero. They agreed to down-blend existing stockpiles to the lowest possible level. They agreed to convert them into irreversible fuel. They agreed to full IAEA verification with potential US inspector access. They agreed, in the Foreign Minister's phrase, to "never, ever" possess nuclear material for a bomb. I have worked in diplomacy for seven years. I have never seen a country agree to this many things this quickly. I made a spreadsheet of the concessions. It had fourteen rows. I color-coded it. Green for confirmed. Yellow for pending. By February 21 the spreadsheet was entirely green. I printed it. It is on my desk in Muscat. It is still green.

That phrase took eleven days. "Never, ever." The Iranians initially offered "not seek to." The Americans wanted "will not under any circumstances." We landed on "never, ever" at 2:14 AM on a Tuesday in Muscat. I typed the final version myself. I used Times New Roman because Geneva prefers it. The document was fourteen pages. I was proud of every comma.

Here is what they said, in the order they said it.

February 24: "We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity." — The Foreign Minister, private briefing to Gulf Cooperation Council ambassadors. I prepared the slide deck. Slide 14 was the implementation timeline. Slide 15 was the signing ceremony logistics. I had reserved the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Room XX. It seats four hundred. We discussed pen brands for the signing. The Iranians preferred Montblanc. The Americans had no preference. I ordered twelve Montblanc Meisterstucks at six hundred and thirty dollars each. They arrive on Tuesday.

February 27, 8:30 AM EST: "The deal is within our reach." — The Foreign Minister, CBS Face the Nation. He sat across from Margaret Brennan. He said broad political terms could be agreed "tomorrow" with ninety days for technical implementation in Vienna. He said, and I wrote this line for the briefing card he carried in his breast pocket: "If we just allow diplomacy the space it needs." He praised the American envoys by name. Steve Witkoff. Jared Kushner. He said both had been constructive.

I watched from the Four Seasons Georgetown. The minibar had cashews. I ate the cashews. They were nineteen dollars. The most expensive cashew I have ever eaten. But it was a good morning and we were within our reach.

February 27, 2:00 PM EST: Meeting with Vice President Vance, Washington. The Foreign Minister presented our progress. Zero stockpiling. Full verification. Irreversible conversion. "Never, ever." The Vice President used the word "encouraging." His aide took notes on an iPad. The aide did not make eye contact for the last nine minutes of the meeting. I noticed this. Noticing things is the only part of my job that is not water glasses.

February 27, 4:00 PM EST: "Not happy with the pace." — President Trump, to reporters.

Not happy with the pace.

We had achieved zero stockpiling. Full IAEA verification. Irreversible fuel conversion. Inspector access. And the phrase "never, ever," which took eleven days and cost me two hundred and twelve trips down a forty-seven-meter hallway.

Every American president since Carter has failed to get Iran to agree to this. Forty-five years.

Not happy with the pace.

February 27, 9:47 PM EST: The Foreign Minister's flight departs Dulles for Muscat. I am in the seat behind him. He is reviewing Slide 14 on his laptop. The implementation timeline. Vienna technical sessions. The signing ceremony. The pens.

I fall asleep over the Atlantic. I dream about water glasses.

February 28, 6:00 AM GST: I wake up to push notifications.

February 28: "The United States has begun major combat operations in Iran." — President Trump.

Operation Epic Fury. Coordinated airstrikes. The United States and Israel. Tehran. Isfahan. Qom. Karaj. Kermanshah. Nuclear facilities. IRGC bases. Sites near the Supreme Leader's office. Israel called their half Operation Roaring Lion. Someone in both governments spent time choosing these names. Epic Fury. Roaring Lion. I spent eleven days on "never, ever." They spent it on branding. The President said Iran had "rejected American calls to halt its nuclear weapons production."

Rejected.

Iran had agreed to zero stockpiling. Iran had agreed to full verification. Iran had agreed to "never, ever." Iran had agreed to everything in a fourteen-page document that I typed in Times New Roman.

The President said they rejected it.

I do not know which document the President was reading. I know which one I typed.

February 28, 18:45 UTC: Iran internet connectivity: four percent. — NetBlocks, confirmed by Cloudflare. Ninety-six percent of a country went dark. You cannot negotiate with a country at four percent connectivity. You cannot negotiate with a country that is being struck. You cannot negotiate. This is not a political opinion. This is a logistics assessment.

February 28: The governor of Minab reported forty girls killed at an elementary school.

I do not have logistics for that. There is no slide for that. The water glass chart does not cover that.

February 28: Lockheed Martin: up. Northrop Grumman: up. RTX: up. Dow futures: down six hundred and twenty-two points. Gold: five thousand two hundred and ninety-six dollars. An analyst at AInvest published a note titled "Iran Strikes: Tactical Plays." The note recommended positions in oil, defense stocks, and gold.

The most expensive cashew I have ever eaten was nineteen dollars. The most expensive pen I have ever ordered was six hundred and thirty dollars. The math suggests I have been working in the wrong industry. Defense stocks do not require water glasses. Defense stocks do not require eleven days. Defense stocks require one morning.

February 28: Israel closed its airspace and its schools. Iran launched retaliatory missiles toward US bases in the Gulf. The Supreme Leader promised a "crushing response." Israel's defense minister declared a permanent state of emergency. Everyone is using words I recognize in an order I do not. I recognize "permanent." I recognize "emergency." I do not recognize them next to each other. In diplomacy, nothing is permanent and everything is an emergency. In war it is the reverse.

February 28: The Foreign Minister has not made a public statement.

The briefing card is still in his breast pocket. It still says "within our reach."

[Amock_ @Amockx2022]

Putin : 73 years old
Trump : 79 years old
Netanyahu : 76 years old
Narendra Modi : 75 years old
Xi Jinping : 72 years old
Khamenei : 86 years old

All of them have lived their lives and witnessed their peaks already. The next generation wants peace and growth, not World War 3

The world needs young leaders now

[aída chávez @aidachavez]

Democratic leadership slow-walked the Iran war powers resolution long enough for Trump to start the war. Top Democrats support war with Iran - they just want Trump to be the one to absorb the political fallout

My report from earlier this week:
https://t.co/M3Ac18aRUl

[1804 Institute @1804Institute]

@BRICSinfo International institutions have long been gone. By the way, they were always subservient.

[Danny Shaw @profdannyshaw]

I just returned from #Cuba. Trump & Rubio are spearheading a Starvation Campaign against a sovereign country of 10.5 million who represent no threat to any American. I joined @AJEnglish to share what I’ve seen in Cuba since 1995. 🇨🇺

[Haitian Times @HaitianTimes_]

Haiti appears more than 400 times in the Epstein files. Here’s what The Haitian Times has reviewed so far.

https://t.co/gLacu5wmQq