The Origins of Haiti’s Gangs and What Comes Next
Angry Planet
Matthew Gault
4.3 • 882 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Violence thrives in countries where political solutions to conflict have failed. On this episode of Angry Planet, Jeffsky Poincy comes on the show to walk us through the origins of Haiti’s gang problems and lay out the complicated history that gave rise to them.
Poincy, who is Haitian, is a program manager at PartnersGlobal, an NGO that helps foster democratic conflict resolution. Poincy’s perspective on the violence in Haiti is that it will require complicated and lengthy political solutions. The gangs thrive, he says, because of their place in a complicated transnational criminal network. It’s a local problem that requires local solutions. A thousand Kenyan soldiers on the ground in the devastated country won’t provide long term relief. Real political change will.
Recorded 4/5/24
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| 0:21.3 | chatty, rambly, kind of a chatty rambley kind of thing a little bit less formal maybe than some |
| 0:28.3 | other places that you've been and other things that you've talked on. And I will also preface the conversation by saying that I am |
| 0:37.8 | pretty deeply ignorant of this topic in general. I think it's an important one, but it's just I don't have a lot of the |
| 0:46.2 | background information here. So I'm going to beg your indulgence and as I |
| 0:52.4 | ask some very stupid questions. But can you at the top here can you kind of introduce yourself and kind of give us your background. |
| 1:04.0 | Yes, absolutely. |
| 1:05.0 | Well, first of all, thank you for a foreign invitation. |
| 1:08.0 | So, I'm Haitian, first-informers, I'm a specialist in governance and public policy and I currently work for a peace building organization that is based in DC. |
| 1:19.0 | And I mainly work on governance initiative, peace building, civil society strengthening the initiative |
| 1:26.2 | mostly in Europe and Africa. |
| 1:28.8 | But prior to moving to the sea, I have over 10 years of experience working in Haiti in the government sectors as well as in the private and the development sector and I'm also involved in advocacy work with you know Haitian civil society organizations and |
| 1:45.4 | the diaspora organization here in the US who kind of like promote a new |
| 1:50.2 | approach you know through US one policy towards Haiti. |
| 1:54.0 | And can you give us your name? |
| 1:57.0 | Yes, my name is Jaski Prenzi. |
| 2:00.0 | What is the peace building organization you work for? |
| 2:04.0 | But in as a job. |
| 2:05.0 | Okay. |
| 2:06.0 | Can you tell me about your career in Haiti? |
| 2:26.7 | Yes, so I had, first of all I work in Haiti as a public investment manager for the for the Ministry of youth so that was pretty much in the in the public sector. I also work as an economic advisor for different organizations in the development sector, but my leaders job in the government |
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