Early Victory Over Gangs, Sabotage at the Top of the State: The Hefty $20 Billion Bill (1995–2024)

While the National Police regains the upper hand on the ground, a lesson in political economy reveals the astronomical cost of our divisions and explains why the country never manages to recover.

Réginald Surin
10 Feb 2026 — Lecture : 9 min.
Early Victory Over Gangs, Sabotage at the Top of the State: The Hefty $20 Billion Bill (1995–2024)

Quartier vidé de ses habitants et dévasté par les gangs 2

An unusual and paradoxical atmosphere hangs over the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince in this month of January 2026. It is an indefinable mixture of a new hope that one no longer dared to voice aloud and an old political weariness that stubbornly refuses to die. For the first time since the total security collapse of 2021, fear has visibly changed sides. The gangs of the “Viv Ansanm” coalition, yesterday the absolute masters of the roadways and working-class neighborhoods, are showing unprecedented signs of weakness in the fac

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