2023-12-01 18:17:06
Third and final part.
“To destroy a people, one must first completely cut off its root.” (Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
7- The arrival to power of Jovenel Moïse and his assassination
Jovenel Moïse during his mandate assumed the breakdown of the democratic order of the country, by violating his constitutional mandate, by establishing promiscuous relations with organized crime, by suspending the elections, by virtually closing the congress of the republic and by interfering in the main courts of the country.
Since the assassination of Jovenel Moïse on July 7, 2021, in the exercise of his duties, by a platoon of Colombian and American mercenaries, the position has been vacant. The interim is carried out illegally by the government led by Prime Minister Ariel Henry.
This assassination made it possible to install the fourth state of exception. Ariel Henry’s main support and support is international because, internally, he has not managed to stabilize the country, neither through repression nor through consensus, which is unthinkable.
The refusal by the West and the Haitian oligarchs to organize elections is that, whatever candidate the establishment presents in this context of total discredit, it would largely lose to any progressive or left-wing rival.
It should be remembered that Ariel Henry now occupies the interim position to which he was designated in a ridiculous and unprecedented manner by a tweet from the Core Group including the United States, France and Canada. His term should have ended on February 7, 2022 and new elections should have taken place. But they were never organized.
In addition, the Haitian constitution recognizes as the main national authority a president who is no longer in this world today, and not a Prime Minister who should be designated by the President himself to exercise only as leader. of government…
The Montana Agreement
Faced with heightened foreign pressure, there are, however, proposals from civil society. In this respect, we can cite the Montana agreement which brings together several hundred political, trade union, peasant and religious organizations, which elected a National Transitional Council and developed a plan to take the reins of the State.
The Montana agreement provides for a collegial and interim government to confront the most urgent problems that overwhelm the Haitian population (inflation, hunger, insecurity) and the organization of a political reform which can guarantee, within three years, the first transparent elections in a long time!
In conclusion, Haitian oligarchs must stop supplying criminal gangs financially and with weapons, which will lead to a sharp decline in crime.
The regrouping of progressive forces is desirable as well as a significant reduction in registration costs for legislative and presidential elections in order to allow the country’s active forces, non-corrupt and not financed by drug cartels, to participate in the political life of the country. .
Haiti must not rely on external neocolonial forces to resolve its internal difficulties and, as the Latin American saying goes: “There is no development except from its own roll.” (There is only development from its own envelope). This position is recalled by Joseph Anténor Firmin, the great defender of the Haitian cause who died in 1911: “Shame on all those who, forgetting their duty to their homeland, appeal abroad.”
To redress the country’s situation, it would be necessary:
First, start at the beginning: feeding yourself, the first of sovereignties; Develop subsistence agriculture which leads to a local market and triggers a circular economy; Pool small local and regional savings, through the creation of savings and credit banks serving farmers, women’s groups and small and medium-sized craft businesses; Build links between the multitude of civil society organizations, especially peasant organizations, women’s groups and associations of progressive intellectuals; Develop a broad coalition capable of establishing itself as a “true social actor”: “a collective actor capable of carrying out actions aimed at the profound transformation of society, culture and the economy”.
Contrary to what international institutions, the United States and the European Union, advocate, it would be necessary to put in place well-designed heterodox (anti-conformist) protectionist policies which, in the past, have worked in other contexts. Unfortunately, donors in particular are neglecting agriculture to focus almost exclusively on areas such as free zones and tourism as priorities for the country’s economic development. If this situation continues, poverty reduction will remain an unattainable goal in Haiti.
Development is about doing it yourself: Haitians must control the tools for producing goods and services. To know the mechanisms of these tools, the community must invent and manufacture them itself. Or, if it borrows them from another society, by acquiring them, it must learn to control them. However, a community can only invent and manufacture its own tools if its members can be freed to devote themselves to research and development tasks. This is only possible if the said community generates a surplus, by producing more than it consumes. It’s called saving. These savings can then be invested in the manufacture of production tools and equipment. This process of surplus accumulation begins with subsistence farming as mentioned earlier.
Principales sources : Mondialisation.ca / Kim Yves, Robert Philpot, Jennie-Laure Sully, Joël Léon, Julie Lévesque, Nick Barry-Shaw, Michel Chossudovsky, Lautaro Rivara, Claude Morin, Yves Pierre-Louis, Arezki Amarouche, Bill Van Auken, Jacques B. Gélinas, Christian Aid.
French, Catherine Roman lived in Russia for several years. She works in the numbers sector and is passionate about geopolitics and economic intelligence.
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