Haiti: Four Decades of Security Breakdown

In 2026, Haiti enters its fortieth year of security collapse.

It all begins with the fall of President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier. On the day of his departure, February 7, 1986, two events occurred: the Corps of National Security Volunteers (VSN) was dissolved, and the Armed Forces of Haiti, unprepared to govern, embarked on what the general-president of the time would call the “democratic binge.”

The VSN was dissolved without any precautions being taken to recover the weapons, assets, and archives of this