A Decade Without Elections, Seven Years of Economic Decline

For about a decade, Haiti has been going through a period of profound political turbulence, exacerbated by the brutal assassination of President Jovenel Moïse on July 7, 2021. There have been no elections during these ten years. At the same time, there has been a continuous contraction of the national economy over the past seven years. This amounts to a true economic depression with staggering social repercussions. The political crisis and the economic depression feed off each other, plunging the country into a multidimensional crisis t