Statement of Emmanuela Douyon, Nou Pap Dòmi, to the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs

Emmanuela Douyon presented this statement on behalf of Nou Pap Dòmi, a collective of citizens working to oppose government corruption and impunity. It describes an anti-corruption movement since 2018 that pressed the Court of Auditors to publish reports on the use of Petrocaribe funds, and says no arrests had followed for corruption or for the La Saline massacre. It lists measures it calls an authoritarian drift: changes of heads of the anti-corruption unit and the financial intelligence unit, the end of the mandate of parliamentarians in January 2020, replacement of elected local officials in July 2020, rule by decree, and a constitutional referendum plan.

It reports that most civil society organizations and the bar federation held that the presidential term ended on February 7, 2021. It ends with eight numbered recommendations to the US administration and Congress. The statement presents the collective's positions.