Ending Haiti’s Criminal Governance Crisis
The country needs a coherent political and sustainable financing strategy. A multilateral summit could bring all the parties to the table, an expert writes.
The words used to describe Haiti—collapse, hell, disaster—have lost their power. Yet the facts remain devastating. Between January and May 2025 alone, Haiti recorded more than 4,000 homicides, a 24% rise from the year before, and over 1.3 million people—more than one in ten Haitians—are now displaced within their own country, half of them children. Haiti’s crisis, the most acute one linked to criminal groups worldwide, resists easy categorization, and that ambiguity has proved deadly. This is not a conventional armed conflict, nor an insurgency. But the scale of violence,...
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