By Reynoldson Mompoint, Haiti Liberté, July 15, 2026
Haiti is burning. The economy is collapsing. Institutions are losing more and more credibility every day. And while the nation sinks into the abyss, a new scene in the political theater is playing out: on one side, an opposition leader promising another show of force in the streets; on the other, a government responding with a court summons.
The people, however, are still waiting for answers to their real suffering.
Moïse Jean-Charles: the opposition of eternal one-upmanship
For years, Moïse Jean-Charles has built his political identity around constant rupture. Every crisis becomes a platform. Every tension fuels a discourse more radical than the last.
This strategy ensures him constant visibility, but it raises questions about his ability to offer an alternative form of government.
By prioritizing confrontation as the main political approach, the risk is that popular anger will be transformed into a mere lever for mobilization serving partisan ambitions.
A democracy needs determined opponents. Above all, it needs opponents capable of providing direction, strong institutions, and a credible vision for the state.
The power and temptation of justice with variable geometry
The reaction of the Port-au-Prince Prosecutor's Office raises another, equally troubling question. Why do certain political statements seem to elicit a swift institutional response, while so many serious crimes remain unanswered?
When citizens perceive a difference in treatment between political cases and the violence that strikes the country daily, trust in the justice system erodes.
The rule of law is not measured by the speed with which it summons an opponent, but by its ability to prosecute with the same determination all those who violate the law.
Alix Didier Fils-Aimé faces the test of power
De facto Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé is facing a crisis of exceptional magnitude. In such a context, any decision that could be interpreted as a political response to the protests warrants particular attention.
A government gains legitimacy when it demonstrates that institutions act independently and impartially, not when it gives rise to suspicion that state mechanisms are primarily used to contain its adversaries.
Two strategies, one result
One relies on permanent mobilization. The other gives rise to accusations of politically exploiting institutions.
One fuels polarization. The other risks increasing distrust of the justice system. In both cases, public debate is diverted from essential priorities: security, justice, the economy, public services, and rebuilding the state.
The people deserve better
Haiti does not need a politics reduced to perpetual confrontation. Nor does it need institutions whose impartiality is questionable.
The country deserves leaders who are capable of accepting contradiction, respecting the rules of the rule of law, and placing the general interest above political calculations.
Otherwise, crises will continue to follow one another, rhetoric will harden, and citizens will continue to pay the price for rivalries between those who aspire to power and those who wield it.
Posted July 28, 2026