Who Will We Be After the Gangs?

A video seen by the entire country in two days raises a question that maps of lost territories never ask: what six years of violence have done to us, and what will remain of it when the gangs are gone.

There is probably a threshold beyond which a society must stop counting only its dead and begin counting what the dead have destroyed among the living.

Haiti may be in the process of crossing that threshold.

For the past two days, a video has been circulating. It shows a young woman being mutilated and then decapitated