After months of deadly inaction, the Caribbean demands—and gets—a reckoning. But will 5,500 troops succeed where 1,000 failed?

The numbers tell a story of catastrophic failure: 5,601 dead in 2024 alone. Another 3,100 killed in just the first half of 2025. Ninety percent of Port-au-Prince strangled by gang control. Nearly 1.3 million Haitians displaced—one in ten of the entire population driven from their homes by violence so brutal that UN human rights chief Volker Türk called it an "unending horror story."