The new mercenary invasion, inspired by Trump, on the other side of this magnificent neocolonized island is closely linked to the perverse racist attempt to punish and degrade the rebellious Black republic and to appropriate its mineral wealth: gold, lithium, rare earths, uranium, and titanium.
The roots of this cruelty, summarized by racist hatred, pillage, and plunder, go back a long way. This island, a colony in the western part dominated by France, was home to the largest number of Black slaves and the highest levels of slavery at the beginning of colonization; it was here that the first independence of Our America and the first anti-slavery social revolution on the continent took place.
The nascent Republic of Haiti abolished slavery, and a few years later, its revolutionary leaders helped eliminate it and defeat Spanish colonialism in the eastern part of the island, now known as the Dominican Republic.
Racial Hatred Inherited from Colonialism
Such epics engendered, within the colonial (later capitalist-imperialist) powers, the most drastic levels of racist hatred and imperialist greed against the Haitian people, their revolution, and their natural resources. This hatred, stemming from arrogant white supremacy, was perpetually fueled by the Dominican ruling class, even after formal independence in 1844 and the defeat of Spanish annexation in 1863 by the revolution that restored that independence.
The tyrant Trujillo, during his 31-year reign (1930-1961), as a mestizo dictator of a predominantly Black and mixed-race people, adopted a pro-Spanish culture imbued with an unbearable racist hatred toward the Haitian people, to the point of ordering the massacre of the Haitian migrant population living in the border provinces, resulting in 20,000 deaths at the hands of the Dominican army. This barbarity was encouraged by an intellectual community steeped in racism and colonialism.
His political heir, Joaquín Balaguer, who ruled for 22 years (1966-1978 and 1986-1996), continued this perverse work, infecting new generations of military and police officers, political parties, educational institutions, churches, and intellectuals.
Continuity and recycling of racism and xenophobia.
This ideological aberration and imperial voracity persist, reaching extremely high levels in recent years, and especially today, that portend tragedies marked by intense and destructive violence.
In our neighboring country, Haiti, the national police, the armed forces, the education system, cultural institutions, capitalist elites, and their production facilities have been infected on a massive scale by this poison, spread abundantly and systematically with state approval and the greatest impunity.
Establishment parties compete to see who is the most anti-Haitian and who advocates the greatest cruelty in the treatment of Haitian migrants and their descendants. The mainstream media constantly stigmatizes the country and its neighbors, and the armed forces continue to repress them. They constantly promote the idea that inferior beings are invading us and constitute the main threat to our sovereignty, a threat diverted and denied by the United States.
Their owners, the capitalist elites and high-ranking state officials, apply a double standard: they practice cruel discrimination and make the trafficking of Haitians and the overexploitation of undocumented labor a lucrative business
The state and the government have been attacked by this way of thinking and acting, even victims of blackmail by a fascist pseudo-nationalism. A significant segment of society has found itself alienated.
A shameful anti-Haitianism calls for solidarity.
The current president, Luis Abinader, a staunch conservative and unrepentant pro-imperialist, displays unprecedented anti-Haitian aggression and subservience to the United States. He calls for military intervention in Haiti and ignores the disastrous consequences of previous US invasions.
He portrays the Haitian people as invaders and ignores the imperialist role of the United States. He constantly harasses and represses Haitian immigration and the descendants of Haitian families. He ignores the neocolonialist rapacity of the United States and the island’s capitalist elites; he even encourages it.
And all this, combined with patriarchal machismo, in turn fuels various neofascist currents that are already openly expressed and display certain paramilitary tendencies, clearly protected by powerful sectors.
Haitian migrants are being murdered, lynched, and their shacks burned with increasing frequency. “Pogroms,” or acts of “ethnic cleansing,” are brewing.
Attacks on the Haitian people’s latent desire for self-determination are occurring one after another, most recently the degrading form of mercenary invasion under neo-fascist guise and American banditry.
Meanwhile… the global climate, marked by racist violence, capitalist gangsterism, neo-fascism, and wars of conquest waged by NATO and the elites of the supposedly civilized world: the United States, Canada, and the old “cultured” Western Europe, has fostered the formation of this dangerous environment in neo-colonies like the Dominican Republic.
Only today is the situation reversing.
The United States is on a downward slope. The neocolonial West is in decline. It is important to renew our vigilance and efforts to block this tragic path on this island. We must condemn the mercenary invasion and increase our solidarity with the cruelly punished Haitian people.
source: Haiti Liberte