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Why Haiti Keeps Falling Apart
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April 19, 2024
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Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital of 2.8 million people where over 300 gangs battle relentlessly for control of the city.
The Haitian President is dead. The acting Prime Minister Ariel Henry is stuck in Puerto Rico. Gangs now control 80% of the capital. Each with their own expanding territories backed up by young men wielding American military grade weapons. The police are outgunned and outnumbered.
Haiti is on the edge of collapse, grappling with crippling overlapping catastrophes.
These catastrophes are not random. They are the bitter fruits of centuries of exploitation, foreign interventions, an apocalyptic 2010 earthquake, decades of dodgy elections and coups, a vicious 29 year father son dictatorship, theft by foreign NGOs, rampant corruption, and a 122 year long debt forced on the country by their former slave-masters.
Haiti is collapsing, gangs might seize control of a sovereign nation, and this is the centuries long story of why.
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