A strike on the water, a visit to the wreckage

The US military struck a vessel accused of drug smuggling in the eastern Pacific; UN Secretary-General Guterres visited Port-au-Prince as Haiti's gang violence continued, with 2,300 killed there this year. *The gap: both stories surfaced at headline level and sank within the hour. The violence that happens to people without a flag or a feed metabolises in the collective body as a statistic — registered, filed, not felt. The speed of the sinking is the diagnostic.* ---