April 7, 2025. We are faced with clear facts and limited options to reverse the balance of power against the armed gangs. For Haiti, alas, the Presidential Transitional Council (CPT) is just flailing about, playing games, relishing the sweet perks of power. Meanwhile, cities continue to fall. The security forces are on edge. The population is suffering—walking barefoot through the depths of hell, their eyes filled with a mix of sorrow, disbelief, helplessness, and anger at the scale of devastation, at the glorified barbarity showcased after the fall of each city, at the disconnected attitude of our dear and unworthy CPT. Partners from the international community, often resorting to poor solutions in their well-intentioned efforts to help Haiti, have plenty on their plates already. They are watching, wary of the political and economic consequences of the chainsaw destruction of globalization, the world economic order, and free trade, once promoted—until Donald Trump—by the United States of America. Trump’s isolationism is open and well known. When it comes to Haiti, the Trump administration doesn’t even seem to be operating within a classic isolationist framework.

The prevailing feeling, more and more, is that of Haiti’s insignificance. The days of American Undersecretaries of State parading through Port-au-Prince, or of an Antony Blinken visit, are over. No one can say with certainty—yes, the big word—what exactly is on Ambassador Dennis Hankins’ roadmap in Haiti regarding the Multinational Security Support mission (MSS), or concerning the political process born from the April 3 agreement—an agreement signed, then immediately violated and shelved. Ambassador Hankins, who last year, during the U.S. Independence Day celebration at the embassy, predicted improved security by July 4, 2024, will certainly remember Haiti and the wisdom of this Haitian proverb: “Ayiti se tè glise” (Haiti is slippery ground). In the meantime, the Haitian ship is like the raft of the Medusa. We are drifting at sea—with little hope for now, but many certainties. That worse is yet to come, because the problems are being ignored, people are pretending, and there is still today this despicable struggle for power, these insurmountable contradictions while the country continues to sink. Let’s not mince words—it’s time to raise alarm. Because options are limited.