Moise's death is the culmination of years of lawlessness, frustration and hopelessness in Haiti. Call it Peak Failed State.
莫伊兹的死是海地多年来无法无天、沮丧和绝望的顶峰，就称之为“失败的巅峰状态”。
But President Biden can chart a new, richer direction for U.S.-Haiti relations, if he plays this moment constructively.
但如果拜登总统建设性地利用这个时机，他可以为美国与海地的关系描绘一个新的、更加丰富的方向。
Calls for Biden to send in U.S. troops to broker peace between the government and the gangsters and pave the way for elections are misguided and far too shortsighted.
要求拜登派遣美国军队调停政府和黑帮之间的和平并为选举铺平道路的呼吁是被误导的，而且太短视了。
Washington has alternated between punishing Haitian leaders with cruel embargoes and humiliating Haitians with military takeovers since the country was founded almost 220 years ago.
自海地近220年前建国以来，华盛顿一直在以残酷的禁运惩罚海地领导人，以军事接管羞辱海地人。
Washington shouldn't try using U.N. peacekeepers to serve as front men and a pacifying force in Haiti either.
华盛顿也不应该试图使用联合国维和部队在海地充当前线人员和维和部队。
Haiti's criminals, both white and blue collar, spent the duration of the most recent U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti gorging on profits from the economic bubble created by the U.N. and, sadly enough, sending most of those profits abroad.
It is time for Washington and other would-be friends of Haiti to try a new approach to helping Haiti develop. Focus on the economy, guys.
现在是美国和其他可能成为海地朋友的国家尝试帮助海地发展的新方法的时候了。
Every future Haitian President will be a dead man or woman walking after a year, like Moise and his predecessors, if the economy doesn't bring tangible improvements to Haitian lives.
The success of Haiti's economy will enhance and protect its democracy and the careers of its politicians and policymakers.
海地经济的成功将加强和保护其民主以及其政治家和决策者的职业生涯。
After all, the most common knock against Haiti is that it's the poorest country in the very wealthy western hemisphere. But being poor in a rich neighborhood is not a sin. It's a launching pad.
Having rich neighbors like the U.S., Canada and the Bahamas, and a successful sibling like the Dominican Republic, the country Haiti shares the island of Hispaniola with, is a boon to Haiti.
Unlike Afghanistan (No. 169) and the African nations in the bottom 40 of the U.N.'s Human Development Index—which ranks countries annually after measuring their citizens' average life expectancies, years of schooling and gross national income, among other factors—
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