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Sometimes, harsh words are needed to describe even harsher realities. Today, it is no longer a metaphor: in Haiti, we have drunk fecal matter.
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By Jean Venel Casseus In its National Security Strategy document published in November 2025, the American administration brings the principle of “Peace Through Strength” back to the forefront. The idea seems simple, but it takes on new significance in this text which reorganizes the country's priorities, clarifies expectations of allies, and redefines the place of the United States on the world stage.
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By E. Ménard Taking full responsibility, I today assume my duties to say aloud what the vast majority thinks in silence. Disappear or Reborn: there is no salvation for Haiti without a major clean sweep. Too many hollow profiteers and opportunists in charge. It will take, to borrow Carl Bouard's poetic expression, 'bleached to the bone.' The time for patching things up is over.
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November 23, 2025. The capital awakens confused, exhausted, resigned. Nothing new under the sun; for a year, nothing shocks anymore, nothing mobilizes anymore. The abnormal has swallowed the norm. We have reached the stage where even chaos seems routine.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE.— The Madan Sara, these itinerant vendors who play a central role in the Haitian informal economy, are today weakened by an alarming situation: a severe economic crisis, widespread insecurity, and blocked national roads threaten to suffocate them. Their weight in the informal economy makes them a pillar in this sector.
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The latest investigative report published by the "Together Against Corruption" (ECC) Movement sheds harsh light on alarming abuses within the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Civic Action (MJSAC).
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You are not dead. Stars do not die; they eclipse for a moment, just long enough for our eyes to adjust to their brilliance, which has become too vast for our horizon. You are not dead. You have merely changed state, as water becomes a cloud, as wind becomes a whisper.
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Love was here before the stars, love is the fundamental law of the universe. We must express it in all its forms: eros, philia, storgê, agapê. A whole bouquet of love to intoxicate us like a perfume. Feel it, feel it, something will always remain.
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Traditionally, the first trip of a US Secretary of State follows a well-established ritual: heading to Europe or the major allied G7 powers to reaffirm the strength of transatlantic relations. A mark of continuity, almost a rite of passage. But Marco Rubio chose to break with tradition.
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We are witnessing a pathetic play, a tragicomedy, as one would say in literature, but with actors of astonishing amateurism; some men of letters have decided to make a pact with the devil. As a well-known former president said: “Does that bother anyone?
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Christmas, a symbol of love, peace, and sharing worldwide, is for us synonymous with sadness, massacres, and insecurity. On December 24, 2024, heavily armed men opened fire on journalists and police officers present at the reopening ceremony of the General Hospital.
