What If Rice Production in the Artibonite Valley Collapsed Under the Fury of the Gangs? Scenario of a collapse

On October 18, 2025, a video broadcast by Infos Partage captures what development economists would coyly call a “disruption of agricultural production systems,” a euphemism that struggles to conceal the brutality of what is taking place. We see figures in the fields of the Artibonite, taking part in what the outlet describes as the methodical destruction of rice plantations by armed gangs. The Haitian Creole caption accompanying these images—“Men sa kap pase nan latibonit” (Here is what is happening in the Artib