{"id":13150,"date":"2024-03-14T19:39:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T19:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13150"},"modified":"2024-03-14T19:39:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T19:39:23","slug":"haitis-prime-minister-is-out-heres-how-it-got-so-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13150","title":{"rendered":"Haiti\u2019s prime minister is out. Here\u2019s how it got so bad."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“it\u2019s important to understand that when we talk about \u201cgangs,\u201d we\u2019re not talking about the exclusively criminal business enterprises seen, for example, in Mexico\u2019s drug cartels. Since at least the 1990s, various leaders in Haiti have relied upon gangs to assert their political will; Ch\u00e9rizier, for example, was allegedly affiliated with Mo\u00efse prior to his assassination. As the AP reported<\/a>, \u201cthe state has grown fatally weak and gangs are stepping in to take its place.
In other words, Haitian gangs are best understood as armed political actors. The current crisis is not just a security one but a political one as well.\u201d’
…
“Armed groups have been intimately connected with Haitian politics since the mid-20th century, when Fran\u00e7ois \u201cPapa Doc\u201d Duvalier established the Tontons Macoutes<\/a> to terrorize perceived enemies of his regime. Such groups have been \u201cdeeply involved with political actors as well, in terms of control for elections, protecting businesses, going after rival businesses,\u201d Jake Johnston, senior research associate at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, told Vox.”  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/world-politics\/2024\/3\/12\/24098422\/haiti-prime-minister-ariel-henry-resigns-gang-violence-g9<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“it\u2019s important to understand that when we talk about \u201cgangs,\u201d we\u2019re not talking about the exclusively criminal business enterprises seen, for example, in Mexico\u2019s drug cartels. Since at least the 1990s, various leaders in Haiti have relied upon gangs to assert their political will; Ch\u00e9rizier, for example, was allegedly affiliated with Mo\u00efse prior to his assassination. As the AP reported, \u201cthe state has grown fatally weak and gangs are stepping in to take its place.<\/p>\n

In other words, Haitian gangs are best understood as armed political actors. The current crisis is not just a security one but a political one as well.\u201d’<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Armed groups have been intimately connected with Haitian politics since the mid-20th century, when Fran\u00e7ois \u201cPapa Doc\u201d Duvalier established the Tontons Macoutes to terrorize perceived enemies of his regime. Such groups have been \u201cdeeply involved with political actors as well, in terms of control for elections, protecting businesses, going after rival businesses,\u201d Jake Johnston, senior research associate at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, told Vox.” <\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/world-politics\/2024\/3\/12\/24098422\/haiti-prime-minister-ariel-henry-resigns-gang-violence-g9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1327],"class_list":["post-13150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-haiti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13151,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13150\/revisions\/13151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}