Identifying Yourself in Port-au-Prince: A Matter of Life or Death

You are likely familiar with the common expression "someone’s life hangs by a thread." In Haiti, in the current context, life can hang by a card—the biometric national identification card, commonly referred to as the "Dermalog card," named after the German company responsible for producing identification cards on behalf of the state.

In Haiti, possessing a national identification card has become much more than a simple administrative formality. Once primarily required for voting or a few bureaucratic purposes, the national ID card has now become a matter of survival. In a country plagued by insecurity, where distrust and fear dictate daily behavior, the inability to prove one’s identity can have dire consequences. Some, after narrowly escaping armed gangs, must still face another nightmare—the inability to identify themselves to local vigilance brigades, who,

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