Haiti’s Critical Weeks Ahead
By
Monique Clesca
Some see an opening for change as a three-year crisis hits a boiling point.
PORT-AU-PRINCE - Haiti is at an existential moment. A perfect storm of corruption, hunger, the pandemic, and a terrifying rise of armed robberies and kidnappings has fueled a sense of desperation among Haitians as a political crisis escalates. "We Haitians are living as if we're already dead," 32-year-old activist Domini Resain said at an assembly in Port-au-Prince in early May. Resain is part of a three-year protest movement led by young people that has its roots in 2018 riots over high fuel prices and a lack of jobs and health care. They have made state corruption...
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