At the U.S. Congress, His Excellency Henry Wooster Presents Figures!

Approximately 6,000 police officers against 12,000 armed gang members. This is the discourse of His Excellency Mr. Henry Wooster at the U.S. Congress. He has figures for the police and, believe it or not, for the gangs too. The country is now understood in ratios. We no longer speak of a collective project, but of a minimal security balance. The economy becomes a tool for pacification, elections a framework mechanism, the State an object of management.

The most striking aspect remains the absence of the Haitian people as a political subject. Haiti continues to exist, but in the third person (Casseus 2026).

And a deeper question arises: at what point does a country stop speaking for itself without even realizing it?

How many citizens do we have exactly? The country does not know.

How many functional hospitals are there across the territory? We do not have a consolidated figure.

How many teachers, how many truly operational schools? The data is fragmentary, uncertain, sometimes non-existent.

We navigate in approximation while the White man has precise databases on us.

However, a country is governed with data. We plan with figures. We secure with statistics. We invest with indicators.

If we do not produce our own data, others produce it for us and decide accordingly. Isn't that right?

Sovereignty is not lost only through arms. It is also lost through self-ignorance.

Yves Lafortune, PH.D Candidate, MPA, Av