Global Power Is Being Rewritten—And Haiti Is Still Stuck in Political Transitions

As nations recalibrate finance and policy around strength, production, and leverage, Haiti remains immobilized by endless power transitions while the Caribbean secures its future.

By: Haitian Prime News|January 22, 2026|Port-au-Prince / Caribbean Region

The global order is undergoing a quiet but decisive transformation. Finance, trade, and public policy are no longer organized around abstract ideals such as growth rhetoric or political symbolism. Instead, nations are aligning their strategies around one central objective: the maximization of strength. This includes control over supply chains, energy security, food systems, logistics, technology, and geopolitical leverage.

Across the Caribbean, this shift is already underway. Governments are negotiating long-term deals, restructuring their economies, and positioning themselves for relevance in the next generation of global power. Guyana is leveraging oil discoveries into sovereign bargaining power. The Dominican Republic is embedding itself deeper into U.S. supply chains through manufacturing, logistics, and trade agreements. Jamaica is modernizing ports and maintaining fiscal credibility to attract near-shoring investment. Barbados has repositioned itself as a climate-finance hub through strategic debt restructuring. Trinidad and Tobago continues to exert influence through energy and industrial capacity.

These countries understand that future power will not be granted—it will be engineered through infrastructure, production, and financial sovereignty.

Haiti, by contrast, remains locked in a cycle of political transitions that produce no material leverage. Public discourse is dominated by negotiations over interim governments, transitional councils, and external security arrangements. Meanwhile, no durable economic doctrine is being implemented, no strategic assets are consolidated under sovereign control, and no long-term production strategy is enforced.

This is not merely political dysfunction; it is strategic paralysis. While other Caribbean states negotiate from positions of increasing strength, Haiti is negotiating its own management. Each new transition delays accountability, resets institutional memory, and reinforces dependency on external actors who define security frameworks, aid flows, and timelines.

Haiti’s absence from future-oriented regional and global negotiations is not accidental. It is the consequence of a hollowed state apparatus, fragmented elite interests, and an economic model built on survival rather than production. Without control over ports, customs, revenue systems, and industrial policy, the country brings no consolidated leverage to international tables.

The danger is clear: while the world prepares for the next 30 to 50 years, Haiti remains trapped in short-term political cycles that preserve instability under the guise of process. Transition politics, in this context, function less as solutions and more as delay mechanisms.

What Haiti requires is not another transition of power, but a shift in doctrine—away from rhetoric and toward structured action. This includes asserting economic sovereignty, building regional economic partnerships on Haitian terms, and evaluating political leadership by measurable output rather than promises.

Until Haiti moves from talking about power to constructing the instruments of power, it will remain excluded from the future being actively negotiated around it.

Sources

– Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) regional economic reports

– International Monetary Fund (IMF) country and regional outlooks

– World Bank Caribbean economic updates

– Public statements and policy documents from CARICOM member states