Haiti: The Danger of Imminent State Collapse
By La Rédaction · Port-au-Prince
· 4 min read · Updated 24 April 2026
Translated from French — AI-assisted and reviewed by the editorial team. The French version is authoritative. Read the original · About our translation policy
As a reminder, for the past 14 years, our country has been subjected to a gangocratic regime inaugurated with the well-known drug trafficker, Mr. Michel Joseph Martelly, who was brought to power on May 14, 2011, with the support of the White House and in concert with the main Western embassies grouped into a coalition of interfering powers, named: core group. Having come to power through a questionable and contested electoral masquerade, he had established his authority on a tripod composed of:
The core group (consisting of the ambassadors of the USA, France, Canada, the EU, Spain, Germany, Brazil, the special representative of the OAS, and the special representative of the UN Secretary-General).
The rentier, buccaneering, and smuggling bourgeoisie (known as the 'affres-faire' sector)
Drug cartels and criminal associations (commonly called gangs).
Under Martelly's reign, it can be said that the State associated with the mafia, both to conquer power, maintain it, and consolidate it. This is what will be called, in Haiti's recent history, the governance of legal bandits; while under the administration of Mr. Jovenel Moïse, the latter, co-opted and parachuted into the supreme magistracy of the State by the regime of legal bandits, merged the State and the mafia while federating criminal associations to perpetuate and strengthen the regime.
However, upon the heinous assassination of Mr. Moïse by drug cartels on July 7, 2021, at his residence, the other criminal associations he had federated became a kind of more or less autonomous itinerant mercenary force inherited by his successor, Mr. Ariel Henri, who spent no less than three years disentangling himself from this camarilla while flirting with this mercenary force before being ejected from power by this federation of gangs named: G-9 Family and Allies, which had paralyzed the capital to force the Prime Minister-President to remain in exile in the United States of America.
Given that a sergeant's death always benefits a corporal, Mr. Henri's expatriation paved the way for the nine members of the famous Transitional Presidential Council (CPT) who, by contingency, benefit from power directly emanating from the 'revolution' of the 'viv ansanm' terrorist coalition, formerly G-9.
Thus, the nanocephalic power carries, from its birth, the very seeds of its perversion. For, it is, so to speak, for the nine musketeers, a matter of opening Pandora's box. And, in doing so, it proceeds to cede what remained of the STATE to the terro-cratic empire in its most ferocious and murderous version since its creation in 2011.
Consequently, today, the State is supposed to dissolve into the terro-cratic regime to the point that the coalition of terrorists can order the Transitional Presidential Council to appoint on its behalf: Ministers, Director Generals, Commander-in-Chief of the Haitian National Police, departmental delegate, government commissioner. The very latest order to date is that of the kingpin of the Carrefour commune, Krisla, who decreed on Sunday, April 27, 2025, three days of jurisdictional strike (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday) to demand that the so-called state authorities validate an interim municipal council for him after having expelled all legal representatives of the central State and local authorities at the beginning of the current year. He says he wants to act in full legality, which is why he does not directly appoint his municipal council on his own initiative. His strike was respected 100% without surprise during the first two days. Despite this total success, he continues his strike by calling the population to a day of forced labor to sweep the streets of Carrefour city, awaiting his collaborators from the Transitional Presidential Council to swiftly execute his instruction, under penalty of organizing other massacres on the vulnerable population, which is without help or recourse.
Elsewhere, this would have been an unusual event, but here in Haiti, in the world's first independent Black Republic, forgotten and debased, it is a common, even normal, occurrence that surprises almost no one. Here, the will of the terrorists is stronger than the general will; it replaces laws. The popular classes have been enduring an infernal cycle of indescribable violence for the past seven years in certain regions of the country.
This is where we stand in this descent into hell, initiated 14 years ago by a thuggish reign. We are at bay. The Haitian people call for help from the peoples of the entire world for their survival! Misfortune lurks everywhere. It is multifaceted. We no longer have words to better describe our woes. Jean Willy Belfleur, Fort-Liberté,
The core group (consisting of the ambassadors of the USA, France, Canada, the EU, Spain, Germany, Brazil, the special representative of the OAS, and the special representative of the UN Secretary-General).
The rentier, buccaneering, and smuggling bourgeoisie (known as the 'affres-faire' sector)
Drug cartels and criminal associations (commonly called gangs).
Under Martelly's reign, it can be said that the State associated with the mafia, both to conquer power, maintain it, and consolidate it. This is what will be called, in Haiti's recent history, the governance of legal bandits; while under the administration of Mr. Jovenel Moïse, the latter, co-opted and parachuted into the supreme magistracy of the State by the regime of legal bandits, merged the State and the mafia while federating criminal associations to perpetuate and strengthen the regime.
However, upon the heinous assassination of Mr. Moïse by drug cartels on July 7, 2021, at his residence, the other criminal associations he had federated became a kind of more or less autonomous itinerant mercenary force inherited by his successor, Mr. Ariel Henri, who spent no less than three years disentangling himself from this camarilla while flirting with this mercenary force before being ejected from power by this federation of gangs named: G-9 Family and Allies, which had paralyzed the capital to force the Prime Minister-President to remain in exile in the United States of America.
Given that a sergeant's death always benefits a corporal, Mr. Henri's expatriation paved the way for the nine members of the famous Transitional Presidential Council (CPT) who, by contingency, benefit from power directly emanating from the 'revolution' of the 'viv ansanm' terrorist coalition, formerly G-9.
Thus, the nanocephalic power carries, from its birth, the very seeds of its perversion. For, it is, so to speak, for the nine musketeers, a matter of opening Pandora's box. And, in doing so, it proceeds to cede what remained of the STATE to the terro-cratic empire in its most ferocious and murderous version since its creation in 2011.
Consequently, today, the State is supposed to dissolve into the terro-cratic regime to the point that the coalition of terrorists can order the Transitional Presidential Council to appoint on its behalf: Ministers, Director Generals, Commander-in-Chief of the Haitian National Police, departmental delegate, government commissioner. The very latest order to date is that of the kingpin of the Carrefour commune, Krisla, who decreed on Sunday, April 27, 2025, three days of jurisdictional strike (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday) to demand that the so-called state authorities validate an interim municipal council for him after having expelled all legal representatives of the central State and local authorities at the beginning of the current year. He says he wants to act in full legality, which is why he does not directly appoint his municipal council on his own initiative. His strike was respected 100% without surprise during the first two days. Despite this total success, he continues his strike by calling the population to a day of forced labor to sweep the streets of Carrefour city, awaiting his collaborators from the Transitional Presidential Council to swiftly execute his instruction, under penalty of organizing other massacres on the vulnerable population, which is without help or recourse.
Elsewhere, this would have been an unusual event, but here in Haiti, in the world's first independent Black Republic, forgotten and debased, it is a common, even normal, occurrence that surprises almost no one. Here, the will of the terrorists is stronger than the general will; it replaces laws. The popular classes have been enduring an infernal cycle of indescribable violence for the past seven years in certain regions of the country.
This is where we stand in this descent into hell, initiated 14 years ago by a thuggish reign. We are at bay. The Haitian people call for help from the peoples of the entire world for their survival! Misfortune lurks everywhere. It is multifaceted. We no longer have words to better describe our woes. Jean Willy Belfleur, Fort-Liberté,
