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How to Break the Stalemate in Haiti

The country needs a national dialogue to address a trio of deteriorating political, economic and security crises.

Thursday, June 9, 2022 / By: Georges Fauriol; Peter Hakim; Enrique Ter Horst; Keith Mines

Following last year’s streak of Haiti-related crises — a presidential assassination, earthquake, a migrant emergency at the Mexico-U.S. border and a dramatic consolidation of gang violence — international policymakers were left grappling with the possibility that Haiti was in the initial stages of a full-scale humanitarian crisis. The further deterioration of the Haitian polity in the early months of 2022 has only confirmed that the country has passed that grim milestone.

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