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Gangs have long held sway in the country, but their dominance has expanded in recent years and the government has been accused of using them as tools of repression.
One of the least spoken legacy of the Moïse administration is the pace at which legislation is being rammed through the system in the absence of parliament. In the past year, there has been one decree or another on almost everything in the country, with the President boldly declaring that he does not intend to negotiate with anyone as far as reforms are concerned. Decrees on topics are varied as the penal code, energy, security, the display of prices in gourdes have been published in the national gazette with such rapidity that some of the decrees seem to nullify others. While most of the decrees have gone uncontested, others have not even been noticed. An example of one that went unnoticed was the decree regarding modifying the rights of spouses based on the type of marriage, and one that went unchallenged had been the decree fixing the profit margin of traders. It appears that President Jovenel Moïse has mastered the art of modulating the reactions of opposition and civil society