Monique Clesca, journalist, former U.N. official, and a member of the Commission to Search for a Haitian Solution to the Crisis and the Monitoring Bureau of the Montana Accord: “As the latest Haiti crisis that started with the July 2018 riots with youths demanding social justice and worsened after the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in July 2021, Haitians have shown, through massive protests and numerous positions by political leaders and civil society organizations, that they want far more than short-term, cosmetic solutions. They have consistently demanded sustainable answers, particularly in governance. It’s important to understand that Haiti’s security problems derive from, and are intimately linked to, the state’s criminality—the current governance system—characterized by massive corruption and association with dubious economic sectors and gangs that control most of the capital. Haiti’s criminally controlled leaders, with the support of the United States, Canada, France, the European Union and the United Nations, have terrorized their own population, weakened Haitian institutions, led the country’s precipitous economic collapse and…”