Cabinet meeting without incident, change of the Director General of the Haitian National Police, and renewal of the state of security emergency. Laurent Saint-Cyr’s presidency of the Transitional Presidential Council is off to a flying start.

From Jovenel Moïse to Laurent Saint-Cyr, the number of times the state of security emergency has been declared is countless—sometimes for municipalities, sometimes for departments, and sometimes for the entire country. In either case, the security climate has not improved. Perhaps these periods of emergency brought something, though we do not know its nature or beneficiaries. Maybe one day we will find out. We now await the details of the decree declaring the Saint-Cyr era’s state of emergency to know what changes.