Trade unionists Jacques Anderson Desroches and Garry Lapierre•©️RTG18
Port-au-Prince, August 23, 2025.- Invited to the show Rendez-vous syndicat sur la Radio-Télé Ginen, several union leaders denounced, on Saturday, August 23, with force the responsibility of certain influential groups in the current security and economic crisis. They accuse members of the private sector and political actors of fuelling instability to protect their interests, to the detriment of the population.
Jacques Anderson Desroches, General Coordinator of ASTM, stated that « the country is not closed » but that « security chaos is the result of a policy planned by a small group « . As an illustration, he pointed out the disparity in fuel prices between the capital and the South, where it is four times higher, which he attributes to the control of some private sector actors.
According to him, this class struggle particularly affects transport: « The aircraft works, but the land is virtually non-existent, because gangs, under the orders of their bosses, block almost all national roads « , he denounced.
For his part, Garry Lapierre, president of the MENFP staff union, delivered explosive revelations. He accuses some security officers of the Ministry of « Super chefs « , to the point of preventing Minister Antoine Augustin from transferring a service manager. Even more serious, he claimed that a former gang leader, who once controlled the Solomon market before being killed in a confrontation with the police, was actually a security officer of the Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training.
Fritz Charles, deputy general coordinator of the FNSH, believes that the current authorities do not have the capacity or the will to grasp the scale of the crisis. « Their sole goal remains to enrich « , he hammered.
These statements highlight an increasing concern within the unions: the Haitian crisis would not only be the result of gang violence, but also the result of a system maintained by some elites to maintain their privileges.
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