The increasingly untenable situation in Haiti is not the result of chance, nor of the misfortune of a population that does not know what it wants. The people are not incapable of taking control of their destiny, as some international experts believe. A people who fought to free themselves from the barbaric system of slavery, who not only created their own nation but also their own language, cannot be an ignorant people so unsure of what they want that they self-destruct. This demonstrates a misunderstanding of the Haitian people and their struggle for national liberation!
What is happening now is not new. It is the result of a destructive struggle that the independence proclaimed on January 1, 1804, was unable to prevent, despite the efforts and prowess of our ancestors. The bloody coup d’état of October 17, 1806, was the cornerstone of this downward spiral, which has continued ever since. On that date, however, another, highly determined social class took the reins of the country, initially with the support of former slave-owning countries, then capitalist and imperialist ones, to thwart the nationalist and socialist vision of the nation’s founder, Jean-Jacques Dessalines. History reveals that, towards the end of 1807, rivalries between the ruling classes for control of the state apparatus led the country toward a republic in the west and south, under the leadership of Alexandre Pétion, and a kingdom in the north, led by Henry Christophe.
This was thus the triumph of a tendency contrary to the organizational ideologies of the 1804 revolution. It is the path of counterrevolution that has since taken over, crushing any revolutionary momentum of the Haitian people. The goal is to replace the essence of Dessalin’s project with their capitulationist positions. Since then and to this day, the policies pursued have imbued the national economy with a backward character, dependent on exploiting powers.
It is with this same objective in mind that the country’s destructive struggle continues through the criminal policies of this political class, which reached its peak by planning a multitude of coups d’état, the most ridiculous of which were against Dumarsais Estimé, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and, more recently, President Jovenel Moïse, whose sole goal was to instill terror and sabotage the country to reassure their Western sponsors. Many wonder where our independence, our sovereignty, our hard-won dignity have gone. It is this unwavering determination, this deep conviction that drives us at Haiti Liberté and forces us to recognize that the country will go nowhere with this political class pursuing a project that runs counter to the Dessalinian ideal.
Nothing can be done with this class of men and women, for they are nothing more than indigenous servants working solely for the interests of foreign settlers. The role of this class of gravediggers standing in the way of change is simply to numb the people’s conscience and liquidate any popular resistance. This is what emerges, in fact, from the revelations made about the Presidential Transitional Council (CPT), a now completely discredited regime that, instead of organizing society and creating a climate conducive to the return of peace, prefers to sow discord in the country. Allergic to stability, this government thrives only on chronic instability to maintain its hold on power. Is it the role of those in power to multiply conflicts between populations?
Rather than initiating a national dialogue, as Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has just suggested, this illegitimate government prefers total destruction. This is the permanent straitjacket that the members of the CPT and the imperialists want us to accept under false pretenses. This is a way of leaving the people no room for maneuver, of preventing them from bringing solutions, corrections, or radical changes in the struggle to overthrow capitalism and colonialism. In this sense, the role of the great imperialist powers and their agents in this situation is evident.
The imperialists have developed mechanisms that perpetuate and amplify the exploitation and oppression of the people. Imperialism has not failed in Haiti; on the contrary, it has indeed succeeded in transforming Haiti into a country where innocent victims are killed in retaliation, neighborhoods are left in darkness, and where injustice, hunger, and corruption are rife. He has ultimately created a class of potentially ruthless conspirators against the homeland who constantly ruin and plunder Haiti. This traditional political class has proven to be the most corrupt, careless, and a front for exploiters and high-cost-of-living in the world.
Imperialism has slain hope. It mistreats and insults our migrant workers like slaves. It has fomented coups d’état or assassinations against all our progressives who aspired to social transformation. There are no adequate words to describe the situation of a destroyed state. The aid provided by the United States had no other goal than to ensure the control and political possession necessary for the intensive exploitation of the country’s wealth. The talk of international institutions about any development is pure lies. In Haiti’s current state, this is how the imperialist countries and even its neighbor, Luis Abinader’s Dominican Republic, wish to see it in both form and substance.
An impoverished, dismantled country, without industry, without electricity, with an economy in tatters, an extremely high illiteracy rate, and the number of unemployed on the streets defying all statistics. Such is the beauty adored by the Haitian ruling elite, the Western powers, and their subordinate organizations, the OAS and the UN, in the Pearl of the Antilles.
Such is the success of the capitalists! This is why we demand that they let the Haitian people decide what is best for them! No to the CPT! No to US interference under the cover of the OAS and the UN! May the struggle of the oppressed and exploited people continue for true national liberation in order to stop and expose all the caricatures of the imperialists and their local lackeys in Haiti.
source: Haiti Liberte