La politique haïtienne en 2025 : une transition piégée entre gangs, échéances et doute
Haitian Politics in 2025: A Transition Trapped Between Gangs, Deadlines, and Doubt By Patrick Prézeau Stephenson * (Le Français suit) PORT-AU-PRINCE —In the Haitian capital this year, the distance between official power and real power has rarely felt wider. On paper, Haiti in 2025 has a government: a nine‑member Transitional Presidential Council (TPC), sworn in with international backing in April 2024, tasked with the deceptively simple mandate of “restoring security and organizing elections” before February 7, 2026. In practice, the country is governed, block by block, by armed groups. By early 2025, gangs controlled an estimated 85 percent of Port‑au‑Prince, according to UN reporting. Major arteries into and out of the capital were either cut or taxed by criminal federations. Entire neighborhoods were emptied by fire, extortion, and fear. By mid‑year, Haitian and international officials were speaking in the language of war: campaigns, front lines, “lib...