Réginald Surin
Haitian economist, bank executive, and columnist · author of the Autopsie column
Réginald Surin is a Haitian economist, bank executive, and columnist. His work deals in particular with the Haitian economy, institutions, public policy, and social change. He writes “Autopsie,” a column published in Le Nouvelliste.
These pages offer a selection of texts in English. The complete archive of the column, 54 texts since July 2025, is in French. In case of discrepancy, the French text prevails.
About the author · Site in French
Texts in English
6 October 2026 · Research & Publications
Unfolding the Crisis: What Geometry Teaches the Haitian Economy
A Haitian mathematician, Ruben Louis, studies how to open up the points where the ordinary tools of geometry stop working. His results offer the country’s economists a method for reading an economy that standard models can no longer describe, and a reason to make mathematics a matter of public policy.
30 September 2026 · Society
Selling Death, Buying a Life
In 2025, the United Nations verified the recruitment of 892 children by Haitian gangs, nearly three times the previous year’s figure. This column takes seriously a word used in the BINUH report, “promoted,” and shows what the gun really sells a teenager: a place, a name, a showcase open day and night, while honest success is lived behind closed doors.
24 September 2026 · Markets & Labor
The Silence Surrounding Broken Engines: Why Is No One Being Held Accountable? English edition of Le Nouvelliste ↗
10 September 2026 · Society
Who Will We Be After the Gangs? English edition of Le Nouvelliste ↗
7 September 2026 · Security
Winning the Streets but Losing the War: Haiti’s Tactical Trap English edition of Le Nouvelliste ↗
28 August 2026 · Science & Models
Haiti and the Next Major Earthquake: The Cost We Can Already Measure
The next major earthquake in Haiti cannot be predicted. What can already be done is to put bounds on its economic cost, compare that cost with the country’s means, and measure what would be available to finance the first weeks of reconstruction.
26 August 2026 · Security
They Asked for Peace on a Thursday. On Sunday, Kenscoff Was Burning
A letter calls for a truce in the name of “rebels.” Three days later, Kenscoff is attacked: forty-seven dead, more than fifty people abducted, then a video threatening to execute them. These acts contradict one another only if they are taken separately. This column reads them as parts of a single negotiation by coercion, and examines what the state can do about the hostages with less than four months to go before the election.
24 July 2026 · Science & Models
The Kakeya Needle English edition of Le Nouvelliste ↗
13 May 2026 · Institutions
Haiti Is Not Collapsing, It Is Being Held in Place English edition of Le Nouvelliste ↗
5 May 2026 · Security