Two items stood out in last week’s coverage of Haiti’s deepening crisis: the escape of more than 400 prisoners (and the deaths of at least 25 people in the resulting mêlée) from a jail in the Port-au-Prince suburb of Croix-des-Bouquets and the announcement that the Dominican Republic plans to build a wall along the 236-mile border with Haiti. Together these two stories invoke a pattern of escape and containment that has long dominated Haiti and continues to hold it back from attaining the unity needed for sustained progress.
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