2025-12-24

Christmas Eve witnessed a General Hospital attack killing multiple journalists and one police officer, marking the second hospital assault in one week after Bernard Mevs on December 17. The Haitian Coast Guard repelled a five-boat gang attack on thirteen merchant vessels bound for La Gonave Island on December 23, representing the first documented maritime warfare incident this month. The Provisional Electoral Council candidate list remains unpublished seventy-two hours past the December 22 deadline with zero official explanation, rendering the December 26 campaign period start operationally impossible. US Charge d'Affaires Wooster urged the transitional government December 23 to make 2026 an electoral year. Four hundred ten days remain until the February 7 2027 constitutional mandate expiration.