Port-au-Prince, April 30, 2026.- The ship tightens on Port-au-Prince. In an unprecedented cry of distress, three pillars of the Haitian economy: Barbancourt, Crown and S.A. stay, warn about the security and structural collapse of the airport area. Between impassable roads for police armoured vehicles and constant threats from armed groups, it is a whole section of national sovereignty and more than 160,000 livelihoods that are now on the edge of the precipice.
Since the clashes of extreme violence between 18 and 21 April 2026, tension has reached its peak in the vicinity of National Roads Nos. 1 and 9. What was once the country's industrial lung threatens to shift permanently under gang control. For the management of the three companies, the observation is without appeal: the immediate perimeter of the Toussaint Louverture international airport is becoming a « Lost territory », in the eyes of a population and a private sector with absorbing.
The most striking aspect of this communiqué lies in the operational diagnosis: the National Police of Haiti (PNH) is paralyzed by the state of infrastructure. The deterioration of the roadway is such that armoured vehicles, supposed to protect strategic points such as the former Cazeau police station, simmer and become targets.
This « Material impossibility of intervention » creates a security vacuum where public forces can no longer even make a full tour of the airport compound. Without emergency rehabilitation of the road, no security strategy can be considered credible.
Behind the walls of the factories, it is a social drama that is being played. The economic weight of this consortium is enormous:
- Jobs: 2,500 direct jobs and a shock wave affecting 160,000 indirect jobs, including thousands of planters.
- Health and Social: The suspension of the Barbancourt Foundation's activities leaves 1,500 patients without care and interrupts daily support for 400 children.
The state's inaction no longer threatens only the profit of historical enterprises, it condemns thousands of families to absolute insecurity and deprives the population of essential social services.
« The time for observation is over. » The message to the government is an ultimatum. The survival of the airport area now depends on two immediate actions: restoring traffic to allow police intervention and taking physical control of the territory. The time is no longer for corridor diplomacy, but for action on the ground to avoid the total collapse of the formal economy.
W.A.
