With the fall of the de facto Prime Minister Ariel Henry, the people of the most impoverished country in the Western hemisphere simply won a very small battle, but not the war against the great enemy of the human race and its arsenal of opportunists from the Haitian political class.
This resignation is almost worthless, even insignificant, as long as it has been precisely co-opted by the international anti-change forces to keep the status quo intact and to justify the imperialist propaganda campaign for any kind of military intervention through the crusade against gang violence.
At a time when the country is sinking into gloomy situations, imperialism has killed several birds with one stone. It took advantage of Ariel Henry’s ouster from power by the popular movement to also punish it for the fact that the de facto regime recently dared to pay $500 million in debt from the Petro Caribe program to Venezuela’s progressive government. Moreover, the FBI took advantage of questioning Ariel for his involvement in the assassination of former President Jovenel Moïse.
Imperialism has, in fact, abandoned one player to bet on the complicity of several other pawns, neo-colonized agents to the core who will help it accomplish its occupation project through the Multinational Security Support Mission in Haiti.
Historically, it is the U.S. policy toward Haiti, motivated by the strategic and financial interests of the Haitian ruling elite, that has laid the groundwork for the nightmare afflicting the Haitian people. The great evils of the people are not ready to be solved, when imperialism, through the intermediary of an obsolete, rotten and corrupt power, wants to regenerate the dying state apparatus in such a way as to bar the road to any popular, revolutionary procedure that could lead to a total break with the capitalist system.
The emergency meeting of Monday, March 11, 2024 in Jamaica showed all the cynicism of the traditional Haitian political class and the superpowers including the United States, Canada, France without forgetting their subordinate of Caricom, – the association of small states of the Caribbean – as facilitator or mediator of service. The demand that the Haitian people decide their own destiny as a sovereign country had not been part of the agenda of the protagonists. And it was no coincidence that the people did not have the right to choose their leaders without foreign interference. Still, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken had to declare: “Only Haitians can decide their future, no one else.”
The truth behind this gibberish of a meeting between buyers and sellers of homeland of all kinds, aiming, according to Matthew Miller, Blinken’s spokesman, to “quickly implement a political transition in Haiti through the creation of an independent and broad-based Presidential College, as well as the deployment of a multinational Security Support Mission” cannot hide this vilest reality of oppression and the most criminal exploitation of a sovereign people that the The U.S. government is pulling out all the stops to destroy.
What other delirious political acrobatics will we soon witness? At the moment, the new actions taken will only prepare the ground for new disasters of infighting, division, intrigue, and dirty tricks in order to better rule by the decadent capitalist system, which is decaying and incapable of proposing the slightest social reform, but is determined to continue its domination for more than a century.
Whatever theory lies behind this presidential melting pot of several political parties of both the left and the right suggested by imperialist forces to Haiti’s childish political class, it is a genuine conspiracy or manipulation to keep Haiti in the misery of underdevelopment. A frame-up to promote socio-political instability in which imperialism will have everything to gain and nothing to lose. Since it will ensure that no glimmer of change will be on the horizon.
This alliance for the formation of a Presidential College with Lavalas, Montana, Pitit Desalin, Réveil National, EDE, RED, Collectif 30 janvier is not really convincing. It can provide nothing but negligible options, which are nevertheless used to stifle any struggle of the popular masses, any movement for national liberation. Such an agreement would further strengthen the reign of political decadence and rout and allow Washington to maintain control of its criminal dominance over the country.
The manifest game of imperialism is to pretend to support the people, but in reality support the moribund, reactionary regimes. A regime that hates the Cuban people, the Venezuelan, Bolivian, Palestinian and so many other progressives, how can it love Haiti to the point of claiming to support it? With such friends and supporters, who continue to flout and go around in circles the will of the people, we don’t need these friends and supporters.
Any real way out for change, peace, progress in Haiti will come from the movement which mobilized workers to take their destiny into their own hands. First, it means a break with international institutions of oppression and exploitation such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) and second, an end to all foreign interference.
We of Haïti Liberté condemn in the strongest possible terms this melting pot announced by the imperialist forces in order to better strangle us. The blindness of the Haitian political class is obvious, which, obsessed with the exploiting powers, now systematically finds itself on the side of the nation’s oppressors. The united Haitian people must continue their struggle, without bowing to imperialism, but continuing to wave the flag of the national liberation struggle with one hand and the anti-imperialist struggle for socialism with the other. Long live the struggle of the Haitian people! Long live an independent and sovereign Haiti!
Source: Haïti Liberté