When corruption becomes a sacrament, and shame turns into a state liturgy.
Port-au-Prince, November 4, 2025 Presidential Counselor Smith AUGUSTIN leaves the country for what the official communiqué from the Haitian Presidency grandly calls “a major international tour.”
Destination: Brazil for the COP30, then the CELAC–EU Summit, two major world gatherings meant to debate the planet’s future and climate.
But irony strikes again. He travels at the expense of a ruined Republic, representing a nation that now exports nothing but scandal and disgrace.
While Haitians suffocate in misery, the representative of the so-called Presidential Transitional Council takes flight perfect suit, empty conscience to lecture on “resilience and cooperation.”
The world was supposed to hear Haiti speak about climate change. Instead, it heard the sound of a U.S. consulate door closing after a visa refusal.
ACT I – THE HOLY PATRON OF PLUNDERERS
Some men fall into scandal. Others are born in it cradled by offshore accounts.
Smith AUGUSTIN belongs to that second lineage: ambassador of vice, gravedigger of morality.
After being expelled by the Dominican Republic in August 2025 for “diplomatically obscene behavior,” he repeats the performance in November: the United States denies him entry.
Reason? None needed. Indecency now has a criminal record.
Washington simply ruled: “We do not issue visas to apostles of vice and corruption.”
This refusal isn’t anecdotal; it’s a verdict. Haitian corruption has become persona non grata.
ACT II – REPUBLIC OF RACKET, TRANSITION OF THEFT
The Presidential Transitional Council (PTC) already nicknamed the Council of Thieves in Transit bears little resemblance to any council of governance.
Under its guise of democratic rescue, it runs the transition like an institutional heist.
According to a report from Haiti’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ULCC), Smith AUGUSTIN and his accomplices Emmanuel VERTILAIRE and Louis Gérald GILLES allegedly demanded US $750,000 from the former president of the National Credit Bank (BNC) to extend his mandate.
In addition, bank cards worth $20,000 were handed out like holy communion at the mass of the corrupt.
While the poor beg for passports, these men distribute the Republic’s seals like casino chips.
The transition is no longer a process it’s a transaction. Governance is no longer an ideal—it’s a corpse being divided.
ACT III – DIPLOMACY OF VICE, GEOPOLITICS OF SHAME
August 2025, Dominican Republic. Official mission, they said.
But behind titles and flags hid another liturgy: dubious parties, diplomatic suitcases full of cash and alcohol, and nocturnal invitations to journalists.
The outcome: arrest, humiliation, expulsion.
The Dominican press didn’t need to fabricate anything.
The soap opera wrote itself: Former Ambassador and Presidential Advisor Without Virtue – Transition Season.
Subtitle: “When a Republic sells itself for the price of a hotel room.”
ACT IV – ROTATING PRESIDENCY, REPUTATION SPINNING
Once expected to become rotating president of the PTC, Smith AUGUSTIN ended up spinning only in the washing machine of public conscience.
Too much mud, too much arrogance recycled as virtue.
But in the Haitian miracle, one never resigns from shame.
He continues to tweet about morality, to preach “transparency and good governance,” posing as a guardian of ethics while sinking deeper into the swamp.
Here, the more you steal, the more you talk about patriotism; the dirtier you are, the cleaner you proclaim yourself.
ACT V – MORAL VISA REFUSED
On November 4, 2025, the United States closed the door—not to a man, but to a caricature.
Smith AUGUSTIN was supposed to represent Haiti at COP30.
But how can one speak of ecology while polluting the national conscience?
The moral customs office has ruled:
“Corruption is no longer a recognized form of identification.”
Haiti wanted to participate in the COP; the world preferred to cut it out.
Too much smoke, not enough light.
THE VISA OF SHAME
This refusal is not humiliation; it is a political autopsy.
The world hasn’t rejected Haiti it has merely protected itself from its ugliest reflection.
Smith AUGUSTIN did not lose a visa.
He lost the last moral passport of a nation already exiled from its own dignity.
And while the people murmur their half-anger and the elites keep dancing their masquerade, Haiti sinks slowly but surely into that cyclical tragedy where shame wears an official badge and corruption travels non-stop.
Amos CINCIR
Ambassador of the Kingdom – Servant of the Empire of Hayti-Africa
East Africa, 2025
