Haiti is on fire – and a man who calls himself “Barbecue” is among the arsonists. After the powerful gangs have brought the last remnants of the government to its knees, Jimmy Chérizier presents himself as a freedom fighter. What threatens the desperately poor Caribbean state under him?
It’s a country that could have been a paradise – now it’s like hell on earth. It’s not just yesterday that Haiti has been a sad example of a “failed state”. While until a few weeks ago the catastrophically understaffed security forces were able to maintain at least an illusion of lawfulness, an illusion of being able to stop organized crime, the last remnants of the rule of law have now crumbled away: burning shops and police stations, stormed prisons, a besieged airport , a head of government who throws in the towel and doesn’t dare go home.
Source: Stern
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