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  Haiti’s Horizon: From Chaos to a Haitian‑Led Order By Patrick Prézeau Stephenson (Le Français suit) PORT-AU-PRINCE — A hard truth has settled over Haiti: the country has moved beyond a governance and policing crisis into the prelude of open confrontation. With the United Nations Security Council authorizing a multinational, law‑enforcement–focused mission under Chapter VII, the question is no longer whether force will be used against armed groups that dominate the capital. It is whether Haitians — through a distributed, multicentric leadership — can shape that force into a bridge toward legitimate order rather than a detour into another cycle of violence. This is not peacekeeping. It is a mandate to suppress and dismantle gangs that have entrenched themselves across much of Port‑au‑Prince and some border central regions. The coming fight is likely to be low‑intensity but high‑brutality: an initial period of logistical stalemate followed by urban warfare operations in dense ...