Come to reality
As Haitians we have to come to terms with the fact that no one is coming to save us.
The only way is forward and to do that there’s got to be clarity in what Haiti lacks and what we need to advocate for.
We have fragments of institutions, we lack institutional legitimacy, security environment, social trust, informal economy integration.
We desperately need, administrative reinforcements across all 146 communes, mandatory civic services (public schools, clinics, markets), agricultural revitalization (selective to be competitive with the broader markets but also to ensure sovereignty over food supply), we need bureaucratic standardization, infrastructure first state building & vertical industrial development.
We also need to shift our tax burden away from customs revenue, it taxes trade rather than productivity, encourages smuggling, creates rent-seeking incentives & port capture while also limiting domestic fiscal sovereignty, moving towards a broader domestic tax base & reduced reliance on import duties, this is one of the first, key and biggest wins we could have.
All of this would be subject once again to building up our army as well as our national police as institutions themselves, we need the necessary enforcement capacity but also the credibility layer that makes taxation and compliance overall possible.
Feel free to discuss in the comments, let me know what you think