I grew up and attended school in Haiti. I watched a country that once had a semblance of stability fall further into chaos each day. I lived through repeated periods of pays lock (country lockdown) over fuel prices, the PetroCaribe corruption scandal in which billions “vanished,” the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in 2021, and the rise of gangs that now control whole neighborhoods and choke off economic life. After every hit, people would say, “That’s it, we can’t get any lower than this.” Yet another wave of events would always arrive to prove us wrong. […]