Blood Debt: From Complicity to Redemption of Elites and the State

The End of the “Titanic” Myth

There exists a persistent illusion at the top of Haiti’s social pyramid, a chimera that has long lulled the nights of Pétion-Ville, Kenscoff, and the inaccessible heights. It is the illusion of the “Titanic”: the arrogant belief that one can survive indefinitely, champagne in hand, in first-class cabins, even as the ship’s hull is torn open in third class and the water is rising.

That illusion is dead. Recent events have proven it to us with brutal c