2026-02-25

RISK PROXIES DOMINATE No BRH exchange rate bulletin, confirmed HTG/USD daily closing rate, or fuel pricing update was captured in the February 23-24 reporting cycle. The Haiti Libre front page reviewed for this cycle showed no new airport or port closure notices. The primary economic stress signal in this cycle is not a formal macroeconomic indicator but the operational security environment itself: fake checkpoints and kidnapping networks operating on urban arterial routes function as a de facto supply chain disruption mechanism, taxing the cost of movement for commercial and humanitarian actors alike even in the absence of formal infrastructure closure. The inability to retrieve a BRH daily rate in a given cycle is itself a data-quality flag. In a context where the gourde has experienced periodic acute devaluation events, a missing closing price should not be treated as evidence of stability. Analysts and financial officers working in Haiti should maintain direct BRH channel subscriptions rather than relying on secondary source aggregation for exchange rate data. The Toussaint Louverture International Airport and Port-au-Prince seaport showed no formal closure indicators, but the security perimeter conditions affecting ground transport to and from both facilities remain a persistent operational constraint. Fuel depot access, which has been disrupted in previous security escalations, must be monitored as the kidnapping network activity in the metropolitan zone increases.