The ongoing political and constitutional crisis in Haiti has highlighted the depth of popular opposition to the authoritarian abuses of the de facto president, Jovenel Moïse.  But the current stalemate involves more than the intersection of political corruption and massive popular protest.  It represents a near total collapse of state and society in Haiti dating back more than three decades, to the fall of the dictator Jean Claude Duvalier in 1986.  Political turbulence, the erosion of state authority, disregard of the most elementary principles of the rules of law, uncontrolled inflation and chronic unemployment — the list goes on.  This multivalent, long-term crisis has many domestic sources.  But the international community has also played a key role in undermining the Haitian political and social order. Read more