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Exporting Repression: Haitians And Kenyans Are Both Fighting Neo-colonial Representatives of U.S.-led Imperialism

Exporting Repression: Haitians And Kenyans Are Both Fighting Neo-colonial Representatives of U.S.-led Imperialism

 
 

Exporting Repression: Haitians And Kenyans Are Both Fighting Neo-colonial Representatives of U.S.-led Imperialism

Since 2021, the Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team has tracked the deepening crisis of imperialism in Haiti, in particular how imperialist forces and neocolonial puppets have worked to suppress and eliminate the organizing of popular movements and the will of the Haitian people. Over the last four years, this crisis has impacted nations around the globe, in particular Kenya. 

This summer marks the one-year anniversary of Kenya’s youth-led uprising against the IMF-backed Finance Bill of 2024. Instead of reckoning with the demands of a generation that has endured skyrocketing inflation, police violence, and mass unemployment, President William Ruto has once again unleashed the full force of state repression. Live ammunition, abductions, and curfews have become routine tactics to crush dissent and left at least 50 protesters dead. As BAP’s Africa Team stated last week, these protests are not isolated and reflect a broader generational rejection of IMF-dictated austerity and repressive consolidation by neocolonial governance. 

Thousands of miles away in revolutionary Haiti, Kenyan boots are still on the ground. Following the July 2021 assassination of Jovenel Moïise and installment of Ariel Henry, by the Core Group, troops were dispatched under the so-called Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission, which was renewed in October 2024 despite consistent opposition from civil society and popular movements throughout the Americas. These same violent police were sent to “restore order” in a country ravaged by decades of foreign intervention and neocolonial policies. The order that these forces represent is not one of peace, but of the continuation of imperialist domination and neocolonial subversion. The same regime that brutalizes its youth domestically claims to bring “security” to Haitians abroad.  These militarized responses do not provide security for the majority of people in Haiti or Kenya, but for the multinational corporations, imperialist bureaucrats, and neocolonial oligarchs and elites.

Neocolonialism in Haiti: Outsourcing Imperialist Occupation

The MSS has failed to curb violence, but not because it lacks force, but because it was never designed to resolve the root causes. Since the Kenya-led MSS mission was formally launched in 2024 under U.S. sponsorship, it has remained strategically vague, militarily ineffective, and politically illegitimate. As grassroots activists have recently shared, the MSS and their masters in the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) have not been publicizing their activities because the paramilitary armed groups they were dispatched to combat have only continued to gain ground in and outside of Port-au-Prince. This includes the towns of La Chapelle, Artibonite, and Lascaobas in the Centre department

This is not because the intervention isn’t strong enough, it is by design. The MSS’s presence functions as a placeholder for deeper U.S. reoccupation and a justification for the continual militarization of Haiti’s political crisis, which has been, and remains, a crisis of imperialism. The failures of the MSS showcase, not just the failure of foreign intervention to resolve the crisis in Haiti, but exposes these interventions as tools to keep Haiti trapped under a neocolonial subjugation.

Life, Culture, and Sovereignty Under Siege

Earlier this week, paramilitary armed groups set arson to Hotel Oloffson, a historic site in Port-au-Prince known for its significance to Haitian art, journalism, refuge, and resistance. This was not just an attack on infrastructure, but an assault on the cultural memory and political soul of Haiti. At the same time, government forces under the illegitimate Transitional Presidential Council (CPT) increase ‘kamikaze drone’ attacks that have already resulted in the murder of at least 300 people in poor and working class neighborhoods, under the justification of striking at “terrorist gangs”. Now with the agreement between the CPT and Erik Prince’s U.S.-backed mercenaries, the militarization and violence only promises to deepen. As violence spreads beyond Port-au-Prince, both lives and symbolic spaces of Haitian resistance are being engulfed in the imperialist-fueled violence.

However, this month has also brought signs of resistance and solidarity. On July 13, displaced residents from the neighborhood of Solino in Port-au-Prince mobilized in the streets to protest for their survival and against the oligarchs and neocolonial state that are destroying their lives and livelihoods. On July 6, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) sent a delegation to Haiti in a clear rejection of U.S.-backed intervention. The delegation, comprising representatives from Venezuela, Brazil, and Argentina, denounced foreign interventionism and called for “respect for Haiti’s sovereignty, urging solutions based on mutual cooperation, not military occupation…Behind the violence, corruption, and food shortages, is the same United States imperialism that oppresses all the peoples of the Global South.”  

In stark contrast to Kenya’s role as a proxy enforcer for the U.S.-led Core Group politically and SOUTHCOM militarily, ALBA’s statement reframes possible solutions to the crisis in Haiti through regional solidarity, not Western mandates. This focus on solidarity is a core function of the development of the Campaign for a Zone of Peace in Our Americas, which has as a primary objective ending military intervention into Haiti and supporting peoples-centered movements that emphasize self-determination and dignity for the Haitian masses.

As anti-imperialists in solidarity with the masses of Haitians and Kenyans, we must remain clear. Whether in Nairobi or Port-au-Prince, the playbook is the same: suppress resistance at home, legitimize occupation abroad. But today’s African youth are not confused. They see the global connections. The same forces imposing debt and repression in Kenya are funding foreign domination in Haiti. The violence is not an accident, it is the enforcement arm of a neocolonial system. As the MSS flounders in Haiti and Kenyan youth continue to rise against domestic repression, the crumbling empire behind both is in much clearer focus. 

The Black Alliance for Peace stands in solidarity with those surviving and resisting both of the comprador regimes in Kenya and Haiti as they collaborate with U.S.-led Western imperialism to oppress and exploit Africans in both nations.

Hands Off Haiti!

U.S. Out of Africa!

Make Our Americas a Zone of Peace!

References

Fighting Words, “Kenyan Police Attack Youth-Led Demonstrations Against Brutality

Haitian Times, “Port-au-Prince mourns Hotel Oloffson, LGBTQ+ refuge and majestic landmark, lost to criminal fire

HaitiLibre, “Haiti - Politic : ALBA stands in solidarity with Haiti faced with foreign interference”: 

TeleSUR English-Haiti, “Militant members of ALBA met with Haitian organizations to reaffirm solidarity

Al Jazeera, ‘Kenya is not asleep anymore’: Why young protesters are not backing down

Banner photo: Kenya and Haiti sign agreement on the deployment of 1,000 police officers to the Multi-National Security Support Mission in Haiti

 

Exportando represión: Haitianos y kenianos luchan contra los representantes neocoloniales del imperialismo liderado por EE.UU.

Desde 2021, el equipo Haití/Américas de la Alianza Negra por la Paz ha documentado la profundización de la crisis del imperialismo en Haití, en particular cómo las fuerzas imperialistas y sus títeres neocoloniales han trabajado para suprimir y eliminar la organización de los movimientos populares y la voluntad del pueblo haitiano. En los últimos cuatro años, esta crisis ha impactado a naciones de todo el mundo, especialmente a Kenia.

Este verano se cumple un año del levantamiento liderado por la juventud keniana contra la Ley Financiera de 2024, respaldada por el FMI. En lugar de atender las demandas de una generación que ha sufrido una inflación descontrolada, violencia policial y desempleo masivo, el presidente William Ruto ha desatado una vez más toda la fuerza represiva del Estado. Balas reales, secuestros y toques de queda se han convertido en tácticas rutinarias para aplastar la disidencia, dejando al menos 50 manifestantes muertos. Como señaló el equipo de África de BAP la semana pasada, estas protestas no son aisladas, sino que reflejan un rechazo generacional más amplio a la austeridad impuesta por el FMI y a la consolidación represiva de un gobierno neocolonial.

A millas de distancia, en Haití revolucionaria, las botas kenianas siguen pisando su suelo. Tras el asesinato de Jovenel Moïse en julio de 2021 y la imposición de Ariel Henry por parte del Core Group, tropas fueron desplegadas bajo la misión denominada Apoyo Multinacional de Seguridad (MSS), renovada en octubre de 2024 pese a la oposición constante de la sociedad civil y los movimientos populares en las Américas. Los mismos policías violentos que reprimen en Kenia fueron enviados a "restablecer el orden" en un país devastado por décadas de intervención extranjera y políticas neocoloniales.

El "orden" que representan estas fuerzas no es el de la paz, sino el de la continuidad de la dominación imperialista y la subversión neocolonial. El mismo régimen que brutaliza a su juventud en casa ahora pretende llevar "seguridad" a los haitianos en el extranjero. Estas respuestas militarizadas no protegen a la mayoría del pueblo en Haití o Kenia, sino a las corporaciones multinacionales, los burócratas imperialistas y las oligarquías y élites neocoloniales.

Neocolonialismo en Haití: La externalización de la ocupación imperialista

La MSS no ha logrado frenar la violencia, pero no por falta de fuerza, sino porque nunca fue diseñada para resolver las causas profundas del conflicto. Desde que la misión liderada por Kenia se lanzó formalmente en 2024 bajo el patrocinio de EE.UU., ha sido estratégicamente ambigua, militarmente ineficaz y políticamente ilegítima.

Como han denunciado recientemente activistas de base, la MSS y sus amos del Comando Sur de EE.UU. (Southcom) ocultan sus actividades, pues los grupos paramilitares que supuestamente debían combatir no han hecho más que expandir su control dentro y fuera de Puerto Príncipe. Esto incluye localidades como La Chapelle, Artibonite y Lascaobas, en el departamento del Centro.

Esto no se debe a que la intervención sea "débil", sino que está planeado así. La presencia de la MSS funciona como un escalón para una reocupación estadounidense más profunda y como excusa para militarizar aún más la crisis política de Haití, que siempre ha sido —y sigue siendo— una crisis del imperialismo.

El fracaso de la MSS no solo demuestra la inutilidad de la intervención extranjera para resolver la crisis haitiana, sino que revela su verdadero propósito: mantener a Haití bajo un yugo neocolonial.

Vida, cultura y soberanía bajo asedio

A principios de esta semana, grupos armados paramilitares incendiaron el Hotel Oloffson, un sitio histórico en Puerto Príncipe conocido por su importancia para el arte, el periodismo, el refugio y la resistencia haitianos. Esto no fue solo un ataque a la infraestructura, sino un asalto a la memoria cultural y al alma política de Haití. Al mismo tiempo, las fuerzas gubernamentales bajo el ilegítimo Consejo Presidencial de Transición (CPT) intensifican los ataques con "drones kamikaze" que ya han resultado en el asesinato de al menos 300 personas en barrios pobres y de clase trabajadora, bajo la justificación de atacar a "pandillas terroristas". Ahora, con el acuerdo entre el CPT y los mercenarios respaldados por Estados Unidos de Erik Prince, la militarización y la violencia solo prometen profundizarse. A medida que la violencia se extiende más allá de Puerto Príncipe, tanto vidas como espacios simbólicos de resistencia haitiana están siendo consumidos por la violencia alimentada por el imperialismo.

Sin embargo, este mes también ha traído signos de resistencia y solidaridad. El 13 de julio, residentes desplazados del barrio de Solino en Puerto Príncipe se movilizaron en las calles para protestar por su supervivencia y contra los oligarcas y el estado neocolonial que están destruyendo sus vidas y medios de subsistencia. El 6 de julio, la Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América (ALBA) envió una delegación a Haití en un claro rechazo a la intervención respaldada por Estados Unidos. La delegación, compuesta por representantes de Venezuela, Brasil y Argentina, denunció el intervencionismo extranjero y pidió "respeto a la soberanía de Haití, instando a soluciones basadas en la cooperación mutua, no en la ocupación militar... Detrás de la violencia, la corrupción y la escasez de alimentos, está el mismo imperialismo de Estados Unidos que oprime a todos los pueblos del Sur Global".

En marcado contraste con el papel de Kenia como ejecutor proxy del Core Group liderado por Estados Unidos políticamente y del Comando Sur militarmente, la declaración de ALBA replantea posibles soluciones a la crisis en Haití a través de la solidaridad regional, no de mandatos occidentales. Este enfoque en la solidaridad es una función central del desarrollo de la Campaña por una Zona de Paz en Nuestra América, que tiene como objetivo principal terminar con la intervención militar en Haití y apoyar movimientos centrados en los pueblos que enfatizan la autodeterminación y la dignidad para las masas haitianas.

Como antiimperialistas en solidaridad con las masas de haitianos y kenianos, debemos mantenernos claros. Ya sea en Nairobi o en Puerto Príncipe, el manual es el mismo: suprimir la resistencia en casa, legitimar la ocupación en el extranjero. Pero la juventud africana de hoy no está confundida. Ellos ven las conexiones globales. Las mismas fuerzas que imponen deuda y represión en Kenia están financiando la dominación extranjera en Haití. La violencia no es un accidente, es el brazo ejecutor de un sistema neocolonial. Mientras la MSS fracasa en Haití y la juventud keniana sigue alzándose contra la represión doméstica, el imperio en decadencia detrás de ambos está mucho más claro.

La Alianza Negra por la Paz se solidariza con aquellos que sobreviven y resisten a ambos regímenes compradores en Kenia y Haití mientras colaboran con el imperialismo occidental liderado por Estados Unidos para oprimir y explotar a los africanos en ambas naciones.

¡Fuera las manos de Haití!

¡EE.UU. fuera de África!

¡Hagamos de Nuestra América una Zona de Paz!


References

Fighting Words, “Kenyan Police Attack Youth-Led Demonstrations Against Brutality

Haitian Times, “Port-au-Prince mourns Hotel Oloffson, LGBTQ+ refuge and majestic landmark, lost to criminal fire

HaitiLibre, “Haiti - Politic : ALBA stands in solidarity with Haiti faced with foreign interference”: 

TeleSUR English-Haiti, “Militant members of ALBA met with Haitian organizations to reaffirm solidarity

Al Jazeera, ‘Kenya is not asleep anymore’: Why young protesters are not backing down


The Black Alliance for Peace Stands Unequivocally Behind Kenya’s Youth Upholding Resistance Against U.S. Puppet State Imperialism and Neo-Liberalism

The Black Alliance for Peace Stands Unequivocally Behind Kenya’s Youth Upholding Resistance Against U.S. Puppet State Imperialism and Neo-Liberalism

 
 

The Black Alliance for Peace Stands Unequivocally Behind Kenya’s Youth Upholding Resistance Against U.S. Puppet State Imperialism and Neo-Liberalism

In June 2024, Kenya was racked by youth mobilizations, referred to as the Gen Z Movement protests, as that nation’s young people rose up against the neo-liberal austerity measures enacted by the U.S. lackey president William Ruto. In typical fashion, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) had demanded increased taxation and funding cuts to a country whose leadership has privileged the dictates of imperialism over its own people. Kenya’s police killed 60 people during those 2024 actions but the popular struggle resulted in the plans for taxation being cancelled.

On the first anniversary of these actions, the young people rose up again in opposition to the Ruto government, which sent its troops to Haiti at the behest of the U.S. government, and which was designated a major non-NATO ally in gratitude for its posture as a vassal state. Kenya’s police state is again killing those who oppose, including journalist Albert Ojwang, who died in police custody, and more recently Boniface Kariuki, ostensibly for protesting Ojwang’s assassination.

The Africa Team of the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) and the organizing arm of the U.S. Out of Africa Network (USOAN) once again stands in solidarity with the masses of Kenyans fighting against the neo-liberal austerity schemes and obedience to U.S. imperialism. Despite the fascist repression, the youth of Kenya are fearless in their resolve and persist in declaring and exposing the illegitimacy of the compradors of neo-colonialism.

The Gen-Z Movement represents the offspring or torch bearers of the unfinished revolution of the Kenya Land and Freedom Army (KLFA), known also as the Mau Mau, whose valiant fight paved the path toward the defeat of their British colonizers in 1960. Gen-Z are the political cubs of their predecessors: Comrades Dedan Kimathi, Mzalendo Bildad Kaggia, Wasonga Sijeyo, Pio Gama Pinto, and Mzalendo Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, true revolutionary heroes who stood firm in the fight for the genuine independence of Kenya.

BAP and the USOAN are clear that for the movement to decolonize Kenya to be complete, the running dogs of imperialism must be driven from office and the neo-colonial economic structures must be dismantled, allowing a truly sovereign Kenya to be established, untethered to the U.S.-EU-NATO Axis of Domination.

BAP remains unequivocal in the demand for U.S. imperialism to cease propping up the Ruto regime, for the unconditional and immediate release of our Kenyan family detained and jailed during these protests, and for reparations to be dispensed to the family and loved ones of those killed by the state and their goons.

Forward to expelling AFRICOM from the entire continent!

Forward to dethroning the comprador class in Africa!

Forward to one united, socialist Africa!

No Compromise!

No Retreat!


Banner photo: Kenyan youths carry flags during the candle light vigil in memory of dead protesters on June 30, 2024, (courtesy. SIMON MAINA/AFP via Getty Images)

We Denounce UN Security Council's Approval to Send a Kenya-led Mission to Haiti

We Denounce UN Security Council's Approval to Send a Kenya-led Mission to Haiti

WE DENOUNCE UN SECURITY COUNCIL'S

APPROVAL TO SEND A KENYA-LED MISSION TO HAITI

We, the undersigned, strongly condemn the decision by the United States and its allies to deploy a foreign military force to Haiti. We are adamant that a U.S./UN-led armed foreign intervention in Haiti is not only illegitimate, but illegal. And we support Haitian people and civil society organizations who have been consistent in their opposition to foreign armed military intervention – and who have argued that the problems of Haiti are a direct result of the persistent and long-term meddling of the United States, the United Nations, and the Core Group.

On Monday, October 2nd, 2023, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) voted on a resolution for a Multinational Security Support Mission authorizing the deployment of a foreign  military and police intervention into the Republic of Haiti. Although the vote did not receive unanimous approval as it saw abstentions from two permanent UNSC members, 13 other permanent and non-permanent members voted in support, including 3 African countries (Gabon, Ghana and Mozambique). This is a particularly egregious betrayal of Haiti, which has been for Africans and Black people around the world, a beacon in the fight against slavery, colonialism and imperialism. Yet the U.S. administration, the corporate media, alongside figures such as Linda Thomas-Greenfield, have hailed the vote as a victory. We note, also, that the U.S. has tapped Kenya, another African country, to lead a multinational force of “volunteer” nations to occupy Haiti, leaving their own troops at home while offering at leas t$100 million in support.

There is a long history here. For more than two years now, the U.S. has been pushing for a build-up of the military presence in Haiti to protect the puppet government of the unelected and unpopular Ariel Henry. Yet the U.S. is not willing to put its own boots on the ground, turning instead, first to Canada, then Brazil, then the CELAC and CARICOM countries–all of whom were reluctant to lead the mission, even if they supported the call for military intervention. The Kenyan government leapt at the opportunity to lead the intervention, bought off by a bag of silver and an approving pat on their neoliberal heads. Haiti will now be invaded by the U.S., but with the Black face of Kenya as cover. Kenya erroneously claims this is “Pan-Africanism;” it is, in fact, neocolonialism.

We are told that the interest of the U.S. in Haiti is humanitarian, that the U.S wants to protect the Haitian people from “criminal gangs.” Yet U.S. weapons have flooded Haiti, and the U.S. has consistently rejected calls to effectively enforce the UNSC resolution for an arms embargo against the Haitian and U.S. elite who import guns into the country. Moreover, when we speak of “gangs,” we must recognize that the most powerful gangs in the country are subsidiaries of the U.S. itself: the United Nations Integrated Office (BINUH) and the Core Group, the two colonial entities who have effectively ruled the country since the U.S./France/Canada-backed coup d’etat of 2004. Haiti has no sovereignty and has long been under foreign occupation. The current de facto “Prime Minister” was installed by the Core Group and whatever calls for military intervention are being made by those already occupying Haiti.

We hold in contempt the neocolonial governments that are taking part in this mission to further oppress Haitian people and deny them sovereignty. We denounce the governments of Kenya and the CARICOM nations, such as Bahamas, Jamaica, and Antigua and Barbuda, which have  failed Haiti and have violated the notion of the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace.

Furthermore, we demand that:

  1. The U.S. and the UN must end their interference in Haiti and the Core Group must be disbanded.

  2. The U.S. must stop its criminal gangster actions against Haiti and stop propping up the illegitimate government they installed.

  3. Kenya must end its support for a racist and imperialist intervention in Haiti

  4. The governments of the U.S. and the Dominican Republic stop dumping arms and ammunition into the country and for the de facto Prime Minister to stop arming paramilitaries in the country. 

  5. The United Nations pay restitution for the devastating 2010 cholera outbreak by rebuilding Haiti’s water, sanitation, health, and educational infrastructure.

  6. That fuel subsidies for Haiti are reinstated and the minimum wage increased.

  7. The CARICOM countries, alongside other regional nations, normalize pathways for work visas and citizenship for Haitian nationals.

We vow to stand on the side of the Haitian people against imperialism! 

SIGNED,

718 Coalition

Acción Afro-Dominicana, RD

ADDI Caribbean

Al-Awda, the Palestinian Right to Return Coalition 

All African People’s Revolutionary Party

Alliance for Global Justice

Anti Displacement NYC

Aquelarre RD

Ban Killer Drones

Black Alliance for Peace, Haiti/Americas Team

Canadian Peace Congress

Caribbean Movement for Peace and Integration

Caribbean Organisation for Peoples Empowerment

Caribbean Solidarity Network

Chicago Antiwar Coalition (CAWC)

CODEPINK

Comité Dominicano de Derechos Humanos -CDDH-, RD

Committee of Anti-Imperialists in Solidarity with Iran

Communist Party of Kenya

Community Movement Builders

Consejo de Organizaciones Sociales y Populares del Paraguay

Consejo por la Emancipación Plurinacional Peruana

Cooperation Jackson

COPLAC-Confederación Palestina Latinoamericana y del Caribe

Dar al Janub - Verein für antirassistische und Friedenspolitische Initiative

Decolonial Feminist Collective

Diaspora Pa’lante Collective

Dr. Alejandro Rusconi – Movimiento Evita

Durham Beyond Policing

Frente Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez

G-REBLS

Haiti Action

Haiti Action Committee

Haiti Liberté

Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice

International Action Center

International Manifesto Group/New Cold War

La Articulación Regional Afrodescendiente de las Américas y el Caribe (ARAAC)

League of Young Communists USA

Left Alliance for National Democracy and Socialism - Jamaica LANDS

Malcolm X Center for Self Determination

Massachusetts Peace Action

Memphis 4 Revolutionary Socialism

Michigan General Defense Committee

Midwestern Marx Institute

MOLEGHAF (Mouvman Libèté, Egalite sou chimen Fratènite tout Ayisyen)

Montreal pour un Monde sans Guerre (World BEYOND War)

Movement for People's Democracy

Movimiento Argentino de Solidaridad con Cuba (Mascuba)

Movimiento Caamañista -MC-, RD

Movimiento Popular Dominicano -MPD-, RD

Movimiento por la Paz, la Soberanía y la Solidaridad entre los Pueblos (MOPASSOL)

Movimiento Rebelde -MR-, RD

Movimiento Reconocido

NJ State Industrial Union Council

Observatorio de Derechos Humanos de los Pueblos

Orinoco Tribune

Palestinian Youth Movement - Detroit Chapter

Pan-African Community Action (PACA)

Partido Comunista del Trabajo -PCT-, RD

Partido Movimiento del Socialismo Allendista de Chile

Partido Nuevo Encuentro – Argentina

Partido Socialista de Peru

Peace Action, Network of Lancaster, Pennsylvania

People's Power Assembly

Pro Derechos Humanos Bolivia (PRODEHBOL)

Rasanbleman Pou Ayiti

Reparations United

Rethink New Orleans

Rochester (NY) Committee on Latin America

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network

Socialist Unity Party

Socialist Workers League-Nigeria

Socialist Workers' Movement of the Dominican Republic (MST)

SOLI Puerto Rico

Solidaridad Dominicana Con Haití, Rep. Dominicana

Solidarity Committee of the Americas, Minnesota 

The African Diaspora Foundation (Barbados)

The Barbados Sovereignty Party

The Global Pan African Movement (GPAM) North American Chapter

The Global Sovereign Peoples Movement

The International Black Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The Party of Communists USA

The People’s Forum

The Red Nation

The Regional Coordination Committee of the Pan Afrikan and Indigenous Movement of the Caribbean

The Ubuntu Reading Group

Troika Collective

Ubuntu Freedom

Ujima People’s Progress Party

UNAC (United Antiwar Coalition)

US Palestinian Community Network

Women Against Military Madness

Workers World Party

World BEYOND War

Zimbabwe Movement of Pan African Socialists

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DENUNCIAMOS LA APROBACIÓN POR EL CONSEJO DE SEGURIDAD DE LA ONU DEL ENVÍO DE UNA MISIÓN DIRIGIDA POR KENIA A HAITÍ

Nosotros, los firmantes, condenamos enérgicamente la decisión de Estados Unidos y sus aliados de desplegar una fuerza militar extranjera en Haití. Sostenemos firmemente que una intervención armada extranjera liderada por Estados Unidos y la ONU en Haití no sólo es ilegítima, sino también ilegal. Apoyamos al pueblo haitiano y a las organizaciones de la sociedad civil que han sido coherentes en su oposición a la intervención militar extranjera armada y que han argumentado que los problemas de Haití son resultado directo de la persistente e intervención a largo plazo de Estados Unidos, la ONU y el ‘Core Group’ (Grupo Principal).

El lunes 2 de octubre de 2023, el Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU votó sobre una resolución para una Misión de Apoyo de Seguridad Multinacional que autoriza el despliegue de una intervención militar y policial extranjera en la República de Haití. Aunque la votación no recibió la aprobación unánime, ya que se registraron abstenciones de dos miembros permanentes del Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU, otros 13 miembros permanentes y no permanentes votaron a favor, incluyendo a 3 países africanos (Gabón, Ghana y Mozambique). Esto representa una traición especialmente grave hacia Haití, que ha sido un faro en la lucha contra la esclavitud, el colonialismo y el imperialismo para los africanos y las personas negras de todo el mundo. Sin embargo, la administración de Estados Unidos, los medios corporativos, junto con figuras como Linda Thomas-Greenfield, han celebrado la votación como una victoria. También observamos que Estados Unidos ha designado a Kenia, otro país africano, para liderar una fuerza multinacional de naciones "voluntarias" para ocupar Haití, dejando a sus propias tropas en casa y ofreciendo al menos $100 millones en apoyo.

Hay una larga historia aquí. Durante más de dos años, Estados Unidos ha estado presionando para aumentar la presencia militar en Haití para proteger al gobierno títere del impopular e ilegítimo Ariel Henry. Sin embargo, Estados Unidos no está dispuesto a poner sus propias botas en el terreno, recurriendo en su lugar primero a Canadá, luego a Brasil, y luego a los países de CELAC y CARICOM, todos los cuales se mostraron renuentes a liderar la misión, incluso si apoyaban la llamada a la intervención militar. El gobierno de Kenia se lanzó a la oportunidad de liderar la intervención, comprado con una bolsa de plata y una aprobación en sus cabezas neoliberales. Haití será invadido por Estados Unidos, pero con la cara negra de Kenia como fachada. Kenia afirma erróneamente que esto es "panafricanismo"; de hecho, es neocolonialismo.

Se nos dice que el interés de Estados Unidos en Haití es humanitario, que Estados Unidos quiere proteger al pueblo haitiano de las "bandas criminales". Sin embargo, las armas estadounidenses han inundado Haití, y Estados Unidos ha rechazado constantemente las llamadas para hacer cumplir efectivamente la resolución del CSNU para un embargo de armas contra la élite haitiana y estadounidense que importa armas al país. Además, cuando hablamos de "bandas", debemos reconocer que las bandas más poderosas en el país son subsidiarias de Estados Unidos mismo: la Oficina Integrada de las Naciones Unidas (BINUH) y el Core Group, las dos entidades coloniales que han gobernado efectivamente el país desde el golpe de Estado respaldado por Estados Unidos/Francia/Canadá de 2004. Haití no tiene soberanía y ha estado bajo ocupación extranjera durante mucho tiempo. El actual "Primer Ministro de facto" fue instalado por el Core Group, y cualquier llamado a la intervención militar proviene de aquellos que ya están ocupando Haití.

Despreciamos a los gobiernos neocoloniales que participan en esta misión para oprimir aún más al pueblo haitiano y negarles su soberanía. Denunciamos a los gobiernos de Kenia y las naciones del CARICOM, como Bahamas, Jamaica y Antigua y Barbuda, que han fallado a Haití y han violado el concepto del Caribe como una zona de paz.

Además, exigimos que:

  1. Estados Unidos y la ONU pongan fin a su interferencia en Haití y que se disuelva el ‘Core Group’.

  2. Estados Unidos debe poner fin a sus acciones criminales de gánster contra Haití y dejar de sostener al gobierno ilegítimo que instaló.

  3. Kenia debe poner fin a su apoyo a una intervención racista e imperialista en Haití.

  4. Los gobiernos de Estados Unidos y la República Dominicana dejen de arrojar armas y municiones al país, y el Primer Ministro de facto deje de armar a los paramilitares en el país.

  5. La ONU indemniza por el devastador brote de cólera de 2010 reconstruyendo la infraestructura de agua, saneamiento, salud y educación de Haití.

  6. Se restablezcan los subsidios a los combustibles en Haití y se aumente el salario mínimo.

  7. Los países del CARICOM, junto con otras naciones de la región, normalizan los caminos para visas de trabajo y ciudadanía para los nacionales haitianos.

  8. Nos comprometemos a estar del lado del pueblo haitiano contra el imperialismo.

FIRMADO,

718 Coalition

Acción Afro-Dominicana, RD

ADDI Caribbean

Al-Awda, the Palestinian Right to Return Coalition 

All African People’s Revolutionary Party

Alliance for Global Justice

Anti Displacement NYC

Aquelarre RD

Ban Killer Drones

Black Alliance for Peace, Haiti/Americas Team

Canadian Peace Congress

Caribbean Movement for Peace and Integration

Caribbean Organisation for Peoples Empowerment

Caribbean Solidarity Network

Chicago Antiwar Coalition (CAWC)

CODEPINK

Comité Dominicano de Derechos Humanos -CDDH-, RD

Committee of Anti-Imperialists in Solidarity with Iran

Communist Party of Kenya

Community Movement Builders

Consejo de Organizaciones Sociales y Populares del Paraguay

Consejo por la Emancipación Plurinacional Peruana

Cooperation Jackson

COPLAC-Confederación Palestina Latinoamericana y del Caribe

Dar al Janub - Verein für antirassistische und Friedenspolitische Initiative

Decolonial Feminist Collective

Diaspora Pa’lante Collective

Dr. Alejandro Rusconi – Movimiento Evita

Durham Beyond Policing

Frente Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez

G-REBLS

Haiti Action

Haiti Action Committee

Haiti Liberté

Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice

International Action Center

International Manifesto Group/New Cold War

La Articulación Regional Afrodescendiente de las Américas y el Caribe (ARAAC)

League of Young Communists USA

Left Alliance for National Democracy and Socialism - Jamaica LANDS

Malcolm X Center for Self Determination

Massachusetts Peace Action

Memphis 4 Revolutionary Socialism

Michigan General Defense Committee

Midwestern Marx Institute

MOLEGHAF (Mouvman Libèté, Egalite sou chimen Fratènite tout Ayisyen)

Montreal pour un Monde sans Guerre (World BEYOND War)

Movement for People's Democracy

Movimiento Argentino de Solidaridad con Cuba (Mascuba)

Movimiento Caamañista -MC-, RD

Movimiento Popular Dominicano -MPD-, RD

Movimiento por la Paz, la Soberanía y la Solidaridad entre los Pueblos (MOPASSOL)

Movimiento Rebelde -MR-, RD

Movimiento Reconocido

NJ State Industrial Union Council

Observatorio de Derechos Humanos de los Pueblos

Orinoco Tribune

Palestinian Youth Movement - Detroit Chapter

Pan-African Community Action (PACA)

Partido Comunista del Trabajo -PCT-, RD

Partido Movimiento del Socialismo Allendista de Chile

Partido Nuevo Encuentro – Argentina

Partido Socialista de Peru

Peace Action, Network of Lancaster, Pennsylvania

People's Power Assembly

Pro Derechos Humanos Bolivia (PRODEHBOL)

Rasanbleman Pou Ayiti

Reparations United

Rethink New Orleans

Rochester (NY) Committee on Latin America

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network

Socialist Unity Party

Socialist Workers League-Nigeria

Socialist Workers' Movement of the Dominican Republic (MST)

SOLI Puerto Rico

Solidaridad Dominicana Con Haití, Rep. Dominicana

Solidarity Committee of the Americas, Minnesota 

The African Diaspora Foundation (Barbados)

The Barbados Sovereignty Party

The Global Pan African Movement (GPAM) North American Chapter

The Global Sovereign Peoples Movement

The International Black Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The Party of Communists USA

The People’s Forum

The Red Nation

The Regional Coordination Committee of the Pan Afrikan and Indigenous Movement of the Caribbean

The Ubuntu Reading Group

Troika Collective

Ubuntu Freedom

Ujima People’s Progress Party

UNAC (United Antiwar Coalition)

US Palestinian Community Network

Women Against Military Madness

Workers World Party

World BEYOND War

Zimbabwe Movement of Pan African Socialists


Banner art and flier: by Okra Sanyika

No to Blackface imperialism. Yes to Haitian Sovereignty

No to Blackface imperialism. Yes to Haitian Sovereignty

OPPOSE FOREIGN INTERVENTION IN HAITI

No to Blackface imperialism. Yes to Haitian Sovereignty.

On August 1, 2023, the United States stated it would “put forward a U.N. Security Council resolution that will authorize Kenya to lead a multinational police force to help combat gangs in Haiti.” While Kenya has offered to deploy a contingent of 1,000 police officers to help train and assist Haitian police, ostensibly to “restore order” in the Caribbean republic,” their proposal is nothing more than military occupation by another name. An occupation of Haiti by an African country is not Pan-Africanism, but Western imperialism in Black face. By agreeing to send troops into Haiti, the Kenyan government is assisting in undermining the sovereignty and self-determination of Haitian people, while serving the neocolonial interests of the United States, the Core Group, and the United Nations.

For the last two years, these imperialist forces have been pushing for further armed intervention into Haiti to forcefully uphold the illegitimate “government” they have installed to maintain their control. The occupying entities of the US, United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH), and the Core Group have been desperately searching for any multilateral institution to lead this intervention, be it the UN Security Council, Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), and others. The goal is the continued denial of Haitian sovereignty.  

Haiti’s occupiers, the Core Group and BINUH, along with their puppet government, are incapable of ensuring healthcare, food, security, and access to basic needs for the people. We are told that the interest of the U.S. is humanitarian, that it wants to protect the Haitian people from “gang violence.” But we know that Haiti’s imperial occupiers have created the crisis and have fueled the violence against Haitian people.

The Black Alliance for Peace stands in solidarity with the Haitian’s people’s constant call for disbanding the Core Group, for an arms embargo against the Haitian and U.S. elite who import guns into the country, for the end of support for Haiti’s installed puppet government, and for the reinstatement of the fuel subsidies removed by order of the IMF.  It is curious that the Core Group and US/UN are calling for military intervention while not making calls to build either hospitals or schools, or to build the infrastructure for power and clean water. Yet, BINUH and the Core Group cooperate with the oligarchs who establish monopolistic domination through intimidation and force.

The ongoing occupation of Haiti and calls for increased foreign military presence in Haiti have been justified as the only solution to political or economic crises. Yet, the true ongoing crisis in Haiti is a crisis of imperialism. The country's economic and social situation has reached a critical stage, allowing for  increased political instability.

BAP demands that Kenya rescind their proposal to send 1,000 police to Haiti, and calls on the Kenyan people to join the Haitian masses and radical voices worldwide in condemning the continued occupation and governance of Haiti by the Core Group and the UN.

BAP calls on individuals and organizations in the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean and Central and Latin America, especially those member states of CELAC and CARICOM, to demand that their elected representatives SAY NO to any resolution at present or in the future to militarily intervene in Haiti.

BAP calls on individuals and organizations on the continent of Africa, particularly Pan-African organizations, to denounce African governments participation in present or future armed intervention into Haiti, and demand leaders of their countries seek true Pan-African alliances with the people and grassroots organizations of Haiti, in support of their sovereignty and self-determination – in line with demands of 60+ Haitian civic and social organizations in their letter to the African Union, dated 6 August 2023  (English | Francés).

BAP calls for popular movements in the Americas in support of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) 2014 call to make the Americas region a Zone of Peace.

SIGN HERE

Call, tweet, and email these demands to: 

Kenya: Ambassador William Ruto 

(202) 387-6101

Email: information@kenyembassydc.org or complaints@kenyaembassydc.org

Twitter: @KenyaembassyDC or@ForeignOfficeKE or @StateHouseKenya

Jamaica: Ambassador Audrey Patrice Marks

(202) 452-0660

Email: contactus@jamaicaembassy.org

Twitter: @USEmbassyJA

The Bahamas: Ambassador Wendall K. Jones

(202) 319-2660

Email: EMBASSY@BAHAMASEMBDC.ORG

Twitter: @bahamasembassy

CARICOM: CARICOM Secretariat

Turkeyen Georgetown, Guyana

Email registry@caricom.org or communications@caricom.org 

 +1(592) 222-0001

Twitter: @CARICOMorg

UN: UN Secretary-General António Guterres 

(212) 963-7160

Twitter: @antonioguterres

No to occupation. No to foreign intervention. No to Blackface imperialism. 

Yes to sovereignty. Yes to a true Pan-African alliance between the people of Haiti and Kenya.  

#HandsOffHaiti


Banner photo: Painting of French colonizing soldier being hung from trees by Haitian rebels. (courtesy PBS Documentary - Egalite for All: Toussaint Louverture & The Haitian Revolution)