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An Open Letter to His Excellency, Mr. Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), President of Mexico, on the Renewal of the UN Occupation of Haiti

An Open Letter to His Excellency, Mr. Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), President of Mexico, on the Renewal of the UN Occupation of Haiti

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NO TO OCCUPATION! YES TO SELF-DETERMINATION!

An Open Letter to His Excellency, Mr. Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), President of Mexico, on the Renewal of the UN Occupation of Haiti

Dear President López Obrador,

We, the undersigned, condemn in the strongest possible terms Mexico’s spearheading of the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Integrated Office (BINUH) in Haiti. The Haitian people view BINUH’s presence as a foreign occupation that, since 2004, has suppressed Haiti’s independence and sovereignty. We agree. We want you, President AMLO, to seriously consider your role and the role of the Mexican Republic in extending the UN’s mission and continuing the repression of the Haitian people. 

Over the years, we have seen you emerge as one of the more progressive voices in the hemisphere. We have applauded your commitments to forging new, more equitable, relations between the nations and peoples of the Americas, especially against western and northern bullying and dominance. For this reason, we believe you should not allow yourself to carry out US and Western neo-colonial policies in Haiti. Since you support self-determination for the region, all countries must be allowed to assert their independence, including Haiti. The renewal of the UN mandate is against Haitian sovereignty. We do not want you to end up on the wrong side of history.

The UN Mission to Haiti Is Foreign Occupation and Denial of Sovereignty

As you surely know, the United Nations became an occupying force in Haiti after the U.S.-France-Canada-led 2004 coup d’état against Haiti’s democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Following the coup, the UN took over from U.S. forces. Under Chapter VII of the UN charter, the UN established the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (or MINUSTAH), for the tasks of military occupation under the guise of establishing peace and security. The Workers Party-led Brazilian government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva then betrayed the Haitian people and undercut Haiti’s sovereignty by agreeing to lead the military wing of the UN mission in Haiti. 

The history of the UN in Haiti has been a history of violence. An expensive, multi-billion dollar operation, MINUSTAH had between 6,000 and 12,000 military troops and police stationed in Haiti alongside thousands of civilian personnel. Like the first U.S. occupation (1915-1934), the UN occupation under MINUSTAH was marked by its brutality and racism towards the Haitian people. Civilians were brutally attacked and assassinated. “Peace-keepers” committed sexual crimes. UN soldiers dumped human waste into rivers used for drinking water, unleashing a cholera epidemic that killed between 10,000 and 50,000 people – and to which the UN has still not been held accountable.

The Core Group — an international coalition of self-proclaimed “friends” of Haiti — came together  during the MINUSTAH occupation. Non-Black, un-elected, and anti-democratic, the goal of the Core Group is to oversee Haiti’s governance. Meanwhile, as with the first occupation, the United States and MINUSTAH trained and militarized Haiti’s police and security forces, often rehabilitating and reintegrating rogue members. The United States, in collusion with MINUSTAH and the Core Group, also over-rode Haitian democracy, installing both neo-Duvalierist Michel Martelly and his Haitian Tèt Kale Party (PHTK), alongside Martelly’s protege and successor, the late Jovenel Moïse.

It is claimed that this occupation officially ended in 2017 with the dissolution of MINUSTAH. But the UN has remained in Haiti under a new acronym: BINUH, the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti. BINUH has had an outsized role in Haitian internal political affairs. For example, soon after Moïse was assassinated, its representative, Helen La Lime, asserted that Claude Joseph would be installed as Haiti’s leader. Later, the “Core Group” switched gears and demanded that Ariel Henry should be president. And this is exactly what happened when a “new” Haitian government was announced on July 20, 2021, with Henry as leader. This, without any say from the Haitian people, without any pretense of a democratic process, without any concern for Haiti’s sovereignty.

UN Occupation Increases Violence and Instability

Haiti currently has an unelected, unpopular, unaccountable, and illegitimate prime minister, propped up by the United States and the western nations. Meanwhile, Haiti’s security situation has deteriorated considerably as groups, armed by the transnational Haitian and Levantine elite, continue their attacks on the Haitian people. We must emphasize that, in the eighteen years that the United Nations mission has participated in the occupation of Haiti, the Haitian people have only experienced violence and political instability. You must recognize the foreign occupation of Haiti has left it in a state of disarray and violence. 

For this reason, we have also been disappointed in your government’s participation in the U.S. government’s racist migration policies. While we are alarmed by the stories of the poor living conditions and the violent treatment of the growing population of Haitian migrants within Mexico, Mexico has also colluded with the United States — and against the people of the Americas — by accepting payment to militarize its northern and southern borders on behalf of the United States. This has led to the further criminalization and violent treatment of all migrants, but especially Black migrants. Your government has also agreed to the United States’ “Remain in Mexico” policy, which flagrantly violates international law. 

Summit of the Americas 

We were heartened when you called for fair representation and recognition of sovereignty of all nations at the 2022 Summit of the Americas. In May, the Black Alliance for Peace called for a boycott of the Summit to protest U.S. power and policy in the hemisphere. The people of our Americas declared their opposition to it, stating clearly that one cannot be a partner and a hegemon at the same time. The United States excluded nations that they claimed were not democratic. Yet, Ariel Henry was invited, even though he was placed in power at the behest of the United States and CORE Group, and without any democratic input from the Haitian people.

In boycotting the Summit of the Americas you, Mr. President, declared:

“I believe in the need to change the policy that has been imposed for centuries, the exclusion, the desire to dominate, the lack of respect for the sovereignty of the countries and the independence of every country.”

We ask, Mr. President, what about respect for the sovereignty and independence of Haiti? Does that country not count? How do you justify your actions towards Haiti and its people, including migrants, that express the opposite?

No to Occupation. Yes to Self-Determination.

The United Nations has not respected the sovereignty of the Haitian people. The Haitian Parliament has never ratified the UN occupations. After multiple failed missions, a renewal of the BINUH mandate represents a direct attack on the Haitian people’s right to self-determination.

We ask that you think with all seriousness about the relationships among nations in our region. All nations should be able to chart their own destiny, not just some. You must know the history of the proud Haitian people whose Revolution changed the course of world history and material aid helped the liberation of the Americas from colonial rule and enslavement. Despite the continued affront to its self-determination, the people of Haiti will continue to fight for its liberation.

Mexico should contribute to the end of the occupation of Haiti, not its extension. The Americas cannot be free and sovereign unless all countries are free and sovereign. 

Signed,

Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team
Caribbean Solidarity Network
U.S. Peace Council
MOLEGHAF
Family Action Network Movement (FANM)
Spirit of Mandela
KOMOKODA (Committee to Mobilize Against Dictatorship in Haiti)
Foundation Frantz Fanon
United National Anti-War Coalition
Friends of Latin America
Alliance for Global Justice
Community Movement Builders
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
Lowcountry Action Committee
Mapinduzi
Pan-African Community Action (PACA)
Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice
Socialist Unity Party
Struggle La Lucha newspaper
ANTICONQUISTA
Workers Voice Socialist Movement
Latin America Solidarity Coalition of Western Massachusetts
Massachusetts Peace Action
Troika Kollective
Peace Action Wisconsin
G-REBLS
Milwaukee Fair Trade Coalition
Fondasyon Mapou
Seattle Anti-War Coalition
Claudia Jones School for Political Education
Los Angeles Movement for Advancing Socialism
Party of Communists USA
Red Banner Anti-Imperialist Collective
Luqman Nation Media
Plymouth Congregational UCC Board of Social Action
Malcolm X Center for Human Rights & Self Determination
Ujima People's Progress Party
Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA)
All-African People’s Revolutionary Party
#NoMore Global Movement
Ethio-American Development Council
NY NJ Hope for Ethiopia
Unión del Barrio

¡NO A LA OCUPACIÓN! ¡SÍ A LA AUTODETERMINACIÓN!

Una Carta Abierta a Su Excelencia, el Sr. Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), Presidente de México, sobre la Renovación de la Ocupación de la ONU en Haití

Estimado Presidente López Obrador,

Nosotros, los abajo firmantes, condenamos en los términos más enérgicos el liderazgo de México en la renovación del mandato de la Oficina Integrada de las Naciones Unidas (BINUH) en Haití. El pueblo haitiano ve la presencia de la BINUH como una ocupación extranjera que, desde 2004, ha reprimido la independencia y la soberanía de Haití. Estamos de acuerdo. Queremos que usted, presidente AMLO, considere seriamente su papel y el papel de la República Mexicana en la extensión de la misión de la ONU y la continuación de la represión del pueblo haitiano.

A lo largo de los años, lo hemos visto emerger como una de las voces más progresistas del hemisferio. Hemos aplaudido sus compromisos de forjar relaciones nuevas y más equitativas entre las naciones y los pueblos de las Américas, especialmente contra la intimidación y el dominio de occidente y el norte. Por esta razón, creemos que no debe permitirse llevar a cabo políticas neocoloniales estadounidenses y occidentales en Haití. Dado que usted apoya la autodeterminación de la región, se debe permitir que todos los países afirmen su independencia, incluido Haití. La renovación del mandato de la ONU atenta contra la soberanía haitiana. No queremos que usted termine en el lado equivocado de la historia.

La misión de la ONU en Haití Es Ocupación Extranjera y Negación de la Soberanía

Como seguramente sabrá, las Naciones Unidas se convirtieron en una fuerza de ocupación en Haití después del golpe de Estado de 2004 liderado por los Estados Unidos, Francia y Canadá contra el presidente democráticamente electo de Haití, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Después del golpe, la ONU reemplazó a las fuerzas estadounidenses. Bajo el Capítulo VII de la carta de la ONU, la ONU estableció la Misión de Estabilización de las Naciones Unidas en Haití (o MINUSTAH), para las tareas de ocupación militar bajo el pretexto de establecer la paz y la seguridad. El gobierno brasileño de Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, encabezado por el Partido de los Trabajadores, traicionó al pueblo haitiano y socavó la soberanía de Haití al aceptar encabezar el ala militar de la misión de la ONU en Haití.

La historia de la ONU en Haití ha sido una historia de violencia. Una operación costosa y multimillonaria, la MINUSTAH tenía entre 6.000 y 12.000 soldados y policías militares estacionados en Haití junto a miles de personal civil. Al igual que la primera ocupación estadounidense (1915-1934), la ocupación de la ONU bajo la MINUSTAH estuvo marcada por su brutalidad y racismo hacia el pueblo haitiano. Los civiles fueron brutalmente atacados y asesinados. Los “mantenedores de la paz” cometieron delitos sexuales. Los soldados de la ONU vertieron desechos humanos en los ríos que se utilizan para el agua potable, lo que desató una epidemia de cólera que mató a entre 10.000 y 50.000 personas, y de la que la ONU todavía no ha rendido cuentas.

El Core Group, una coalición internacional de autoproclamados “amigos” de Haití, se reunió durante la ocupación de la MINUSTAH. No negro, no electo y antidemocrático, el objetivo de The Core Group es supervisar el gobierno de Haití. Mientras tanto, al igual que con la primera ocupación, Estados Unidos y la MINUSTAH entrenaron y militarizaron a la policía y las fuerzas de seguridad de Haití, a menudo rehabilitando y reintegrando a miembros rebeldes. Los Estados Unidos, en connivencia con la MINUSTAH y el Core Group, también anuló la democracia haitiana, instalando tanto al neoduvalierista Michel Martelly como a su Partido Haitiano Tèt Kale (PHTK), junto al protegido y sucesor de Martelly, el difunto Jovenel Moïse.

Se afirma que esta ocupación terminó oficialmente en 2017 con la disolución de la MINUSTAH. Pero la ONU se ha quedado en Haití bajo un nuevo acrónimo: BINUH, la Oficina Integrada de las Naciones Unidas en Haití. BINUH ha tenido un papel descomunal en los asuntos políticos internos de Haití. Por ejemplo, poco después del asesinato de Moïse, su representante, Helen La Lime, afirmó que Claude Joseph sería instalado como líder de Haití. Más tarde, el “Grupo Central” cambió de marcha y exigió que Ariel Henry fuera presidente. Y esto es exactamente lo que sucedió cuando se anunció un “nuevo” gobierno haitiano el 20 de julio de 2021, con Henry como líder. Esto, sin ningún poder de decisión del pueblo haitiano, sin ninguna pretensión de un proceso democrático, sin ninguna preocupación por la soberanía de Haití.

La ocupación de la ONU aumenta la violencia y la inestabilidad

Haití tiene actualmente un primer ministro no electo, impopular, ilegítimo, que no rinde cuentas apoyado por los Estados Unidos y las naciones occidentales. 

Mientras tanto, la situación de seguridad de Haití se ha deteriorado considerablemente a medida que grupos, armados por la élite transnacional haitiana y levantina, continúan sus ataques contra el pueblo haitiano. Debemos enfatizar que, en los dieciocho años que la misión de las Naciones Unidas ha participado en la ocupación de Haití, el pueblo haitiano sólo ha experimentado violencia e inestabilidad política. Debe usted reconocer que la ocupación extranjera de Haití lo ha dejado en un estado de desorden y violencia.

Por esta razón, también nos ha decepcionado la participación de su gobierno en las políticas migratorias racistas del gobierno de los Estados Unidos. Si bien estamos alarmados por las historias de las malas condiciones de vida y el trato violento de la creciente población de inmigrantes haitianos en de México, México también se ha confabulado con Estados Unidos—y contra los pueblos de las Américas—al aceptar pagos para militarizar sus fronteras del norte y el sur en nombre de los Estados Unidos. Esto ha llevado a una mayor criminalización y trato violento de todos los migrantes, pero especialmente de los migrantes negros. Su gobierno también ha aceptado la política estadounidense de “Permanecer en México”, que viola flagrantemente el derecho internacional.

Cumbre de las Americas

Nos sentimos alentamos cuando usted pidió una representación justa y el reconocimiento de la soberanía de todas las naciones en la Cumbre de las Américas de 2022. En mayo, la Alianza Negra por la Paz llamó a boicotear la Cumbre para protestar contra el poder y la política de los Estados Unidos en el hemisferio. Los pueblos de nuestra América se declararon en contra, dejando claro que no se puede ser socio y hegemónico al mismo tiempo. Los Estados Unidos excluyó a las naciones que, según ellos, no eran democráticas. Sin embargo, se invitó a Ariel Henry, a pesar de que fue puesto en el poder a instancias de los Estados Unidos y del Grupo CORE, y sin ninguna aportación democrática del pueblo haitiano.

Al boicotear la Cumbre de las Américas usted, señor Presidente, declaró:

“Creo en la necesidad de cambiar la política que se ha impuesto durante siglos, la exclusión, el afán de dominación, la falta de respeto a la soberanía de los países y la independencia de cada país.”

Le preguntamos, señor Presidente, ¿qué pasa con el respeto a la soberanía e independencia de Haití? ¿Ese país no cuenta? ¿Cómo justifica sus acciones hacia Haití y su gente, incluidos los migrantes, que expresan lo contrario?

No a la Ocupación. Sí a la Autodeterminación.

Las Naciones Unidas no han respetado la soberanía del pueblo haitiano. El parlamento haitiano nunca ha ratificado las ocupaciones de la ONU. Después de múltiples misiones fallidas, la renovación del mandato de la BINUH representa un ataque directo al derecho del pueblo haitiano a la autodeterminación.

Les pedimo que piensen con toda seriedad en las relaciones entre las naciones de nuestra región. Todas las naciones deberían poder trazar su propio destino, no solo algunas. Debes conocer la historia del orgulloso pueblo haitiano cuya Revolución cambió el curso de la historia mundial y la ayuda material ayudó a la liberación de las Américas del dominio colonial y la esclavitud. A pesar de la continua afrenta a su autodeterminación, el pueblo de Haití seguirá luchando por su liberación. México debe contribuir al fin de la ocupación de Haití, no a su extensión. Las Américas no pueden ser libres y soberanas a menos que todos los países sean libres y soberanos.

Firmado,

Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team
Caribbean Solidarity Network
U.S. Peace Council
MOLEGHAF
Family Action Network Movement (FANM)
Spirit of Mandela
KOMOKODA (Committee to Mobilize Against Dictatorship in Haiti)
Foundation Frantz Fanon
United National Anti-War Coalition
Friends of Latin America
Alliance for Global Justice
Community Movement Builders
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
Lowcountry Action Committee
Mapinduzi
Pan-African Community Action (PACA)
Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice
Socialist Unity Party
Struggle La Lucha newspaper
ANTICONQUISTA
Workers Voice Socialist Movement
Latin America Solidarity Coalition of Western Massachusetts
Massachusetts Peace Action
Troika Kollective
Peace Action Wisconsin
G-REBLS
Milwaukee Fair Trade Coalition
Fondasyon Mapou
Seattle Anti-War Coalition
Claudia Jones School for Political Education
Los Angeles Movement for Advancing Socialism
Party of Communists USA
Red Banner Anti-Imperialist Collective
Luqman Nation Media
Plymouth Congregational UCC Board of Social Action
Malcolm X Center for Human Rights & Self Determination
Ujima People's Progress Party
Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA)
All-African People’s Revolutionary Party
#NoMore Global Movement
Ethio-American Development Council
NY NJ Hope for Ethiopia
Unión del Barrio

Non Pou Okipasyon!  Wi Pou Otodetèminasyon!

Yon lèt ouvè pou Andres Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) Sou renouvèlman Misyon Okipasyon Nasyonzini an Ayiti

  

Chè Prezidan López Obrador,

Nou menm, siyatè ki anba yo, nou kondane nan pi fò tèm posib ke Meksik ap dirije renouvèlman manda Biwo entegre Nasyonzini an (BINUH) ann Ayiti. Pèp ayisyen konsidere prezans BINUH kòm yon okipasyon etranje ki, depi 2004, te siprime endepandans ak souverènte Ayiti. Nou dakò. Nou vle ou, Prezidan AMLO, konsidere seryezman wòl ou ak wòl Repiblik Meksiken an nan pwolonje misyon Nasyonzini an ak kontinye represyon pèp ayisyen an.

Pandan ane yo, nou te wè ou parèt kòm youn nan vwa ki pi pwogresis nan emisfè a. Nou bat bravo pou angajman w yo pou nou tabli nouvo relasyon ki pi ekitab ant nasyon yo ak pèp Amerik yo, espesyalman kont entimidasyon ak dominasyon lwès ak nò yo. Pou rezon sa a, nou kwè ou pa ta dwe pèmèt tèt ou fè politik neokolonyal Etazini ak Lwès ann Ayiti. Paske ou sipòte otodetèminasyon pou rejyon an, tout peyi yo dwe gen dwa revandike endepandans yo, menm Ayiti. Renouvèlman manda Nasyonzini an se kont souverènte ayisyen an. Nou pa vle ou fini sou move bò listwa.

Misyon Nasyonzini an Ayiti se Okipasyon Etranjè ak refi souverènte

Kòm ou konnen siman, Nasyonzini te vin tounen yon fòs okipasyon ann Ayiti apre koudeta 2004 Etazini-Frans-Kanada te dirije kont prezidan Ayiti ki te eli demokratikman, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Apre koudeta a, Nasyonzini te pran pouvwa nan men fòs ameriken yo. Dapre Chapit VII konstitisyon Nasyonzini an, Nasyonzini te etabli Misyon Estabilizasyon Nasyonzini an Ayiti (MINUSTAH), pou okipasyon militè anba laparans tabli lapè ak sekirite. Gouvènman Pati Travayè Brezil la ki te dirije pa Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva answit te trayi pèp ayisyen an e li te febli souverènte Ayiti lè li te dakò pou dirije zèl militè misyon Nasyonzini an ann Ayiti. 

Istwa Nasyonzini ann Ayiti se yon istwa vyolans. Yon operasyon chè, plizyè milya dola, MINUSTAH te gen ant 6,000 ak 12,000 twoup militè ak lapolis estasyone an Ayiti ansanm ak plizyè milye pèsonèl sivil. Menm jan ak premye okipasyon ameriken an (1915-1934), okipasyon Nasyonzini an anba MINUSTAH te make pa britalite ak rasis anvè pèp ayisyen an. Sivil yo te atake ak asasinen brital. Sòlda Nasyonzini yo te komèt krim seksyèl. Sòlda Nasyonzini yo jete dlo egou nan rivyè ayisyen yo itilize pou bwè, sa ki te deklanche yon epidemi kolera ki te touye ant 10,000 ak 50,000 moun - e pou sa Nasyonzini poko responsab.

CORE Gwoup - yon kowalisyon entènasyonal ki te pwoklame "zanmi" Ayiti - te reyini pandan okipasyon MINUSTAH. Ki pa nwa, ki pa eli, ak anti-demokratik, objektif CORE Gwoup se sipèvize gouvènans Ayiti. Pandansetan, menm jan ak premye okipasyon an, Lèzetazini ak MINUSTAH te fòme e militarize lapolis ak fòs sekirite Ayiti yo, souvan reyabilite ak reentegre manm koken yo. Lèzetazini, nan konplisite ak MINUSTAH ak CORE Gwoup a, te tou pase sou demokrasi ayisyen an, enstale tou de neo-Duvalieris Michel Martelly ak Pati Ayisyen Tèt Kale li a (PHTK), ansanm ak pwoteje Martelly a ak siksesè, Jovenel Moïse.

Yo fè konnen okipasyon sa a te fini ofisyèlman an 2017 ak disolisyon MINUSTAH. Men Nasyonzini rete ann Ayiti anba yon nouvo akwonim: BINUH, Biwo entegre Nasyonzini ann Ayiti. BINUH te gen yon gwo wòl nan zafè politik entèn ayisyen an. Pa egzanp, tousuit apre yo te touye Moïse, reprezantan li a, Helen La Lime, te deklare ke Claude Joseph ta dwe enstale kòm lidè Ayiti. Apre sa, "Core Group" te mande pou Ariel Henry vin prezidan. E se egzakteman sa ki te pase lè yon "nouvo" gouvènman ayisyen te anonse nan dat 20 jiyè 2021, ak Henry kòm lidè. Sa a, san okenn di nan men pèp ayisyen an, san okenn pwosesis demokratik, san okenn enkyetid pou souverènte Ayiti. 

Okipasyon Nasyonzini Ogmante Vyolans ak Enstabilite

Kounye a, Ayiti gen yon premye minis ki pa eli, ki pa popilè, ki pa responsab e ki pa lejitim, ki te sipòte pa Etazini ak nasyon lwès yo. Pandan se tan, sitiyasyon sekirite Ayiti a vin deteryore konsiderableman pandan gwoup yo, ame pa elit transnasyonal ayisyen ak Levantin, kontinye atak yo sou pèp ayisyen an. Fòk nou di, nan dizwitan ke misyon Nasyon Zini te patisipe nan okipasyon Ayiti a, pèp ayisyen an sèlman fè eksperyans vyolans ak enstabilite politik. Ou dwe rekonèt okipasyon etranje peyi Dayiti kite l nan yon eta de dezòd ak vyolans. 

Pou rezon sa a, nou te tou desi nan patisipasyon gouvènman ou a nan politik migrasyon rasis gouvènman ameriken an. Pandan ke nou te alame pa istwa de move kondisyon lavi ak tretman vyolan imigran ayisyen yo nan peyi Meksik. Meksik te fè konplisite ak Etazini—kont pèp Amerik yo—lè li te aksepte peman pou militarize fwontyè nò ak sid li yo pou Etazini. Sa a te mennen nan plis kriminalize ak tretman vyolan pou tout imigran, men sitou imigran Nwa yo. Gouvènman w la te dakò tou ak politik "Rete nan Meksik" Etazini, ki vyole lwa entènasyonal. 

Somè Amerik yo 

Nou te ankouraje lè ou te mande pou reprezante jis ak rekonesans souverènte tout nasyon yo nan Somè Amerik yo 2022. Nan mwa me, Black Alliance for Peace te mande yon bòykote nan Somè a pou pwoteste kont pouvwa ak politik Etazini nan emisfè a. Moun ki nan Amerik nou yo te deklare opozisyon yo ak li, ki deklare klèman ke yon moun pa ka yon patnè ak yon ejemon an menm tan. Etazini te ekskli nasyon yo ke yo te deklare ke yo pa demokratik. Poutan, Ariel Henry te envite, menmsi yo te mete l sou pouvwa sou demann Etazini ak CORE Group, e san okenn opinyon demokratik pèp ayisyen an. 

Nan bòykote Somè Amerik yo, ou menm, Mesye Prezidan, te deklare: 

"Mwen kwè nan nesesite pou chanje politik ki te enpoze depi plizyè syèk, esklizyon an, dezi a domine, mank de respè pou souverènte peyi yo ak endepandans chak peyi."

Nou mande, Mesye Prezidan, e respè pou souverènte ak endepandans Ayiti? Eske peyi sa pa konte? Ki jan ou jistifye aksyon ou anvè Ayiti ak pèp li a, enkli imigran, ki eksprime opoze a? 

Non nan Okipasyon. Wi pou Otodetèminasyon

Nasyonzini pa respekte souverènte pèp ayisyen an. Palman ayisyen an pa janm ratifye okipasyon Nasyonzini yo. Apre plizyè misyon echwe, yon renouvèlman manda BINUH reprezante yon atak dirèk sou dwa pèp ayisyen an pou otodetèminasyon.

Nou mande pou w reflechi sou relasyon ki genyen ant nasyon nan rejyon nou an. Tout nasyon ta dwe kapab trase pwòp desten yo, pa sèlman kèk. Ou dwe konnen istwa pèp ayisyen fyè ki gen Revolisyon ki te chanje kou istwa lemonn ak èd materyèl ki te ede libere Amerik yo anba dominasyon kolonyal ak esklavaj. Malgre afwon kontinyèl sou otodetèminasyon li, pèp Ayiti a ap kontinye goumen pou liberasyon li.

Meksik ta dwe kontribye nan fen okipasyon Ayiti a, pa nan ekstansyon li. Amerik yo pa kapab lib e souveren sof si tout peyi yo lib e souveren.

 

siyen,

Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team (Ekip Ayiti/Amerik)
Caribbean Solidarity Network
U.S. Peace Council
MOLEGHAF
Family Action Network Movement (FANM)
Spirit of Mandela
KOMOKODA (Committee to Mobilize Against Dictatorship in Haiti)
Foundation Frantz Fanon
United National Anti-War Coalition
Friends of Latin America
Alliance for Global Justice
Community Movement Builders
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
Lowcountry Action Committee
Mapinduzi
Pan-African Community Action (PACA)
Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice
Socialist Unity Party
Struggle La Lucha newspaper
ANTICONQUISTA
Workers Voice Socialist Movement
Latin America Solidarity Coalition of Western Massachusetts
Massachusetts Peace Action
Troika Kollective
Peace Action Wisconsin
G-REBLS
Milwaukee Fair Trade Coalition
Fondasyon Mapou
Seattle Anti-War Coalition
Claudia Jones School for Political Education
Los Angeles Movement for Advancing Socialism
Party of Communists USA
Red Banner Anti-Imperialist Collective
Luqman Nation Media
Plymouth Congregational UCC Board of Social Action
Malcolm X Center for Human Rights & Self Determination
Ujima People's Progress Party
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Haiti: On Interventions and Occupations

Haiti: On Interventions and Occupations

Originally published in Black Agenda Report by BAP member Dr. Peter James Hudson and BAP Haiti/Americas Coordinator Dr. Jemima Pierre, August 4, 2021

U.S. and other foreign interventions are the cause of Haiti's ongoing crises.

The first calls for foreign intervention into Haiti came soon after the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse in Port-au-Prince on July 7th. Intervention was  justified by the claim that Moïse’s death had created a vacuum of political leadership and authority that would push Haiti into a maelstrom of chaos and anarchy -- into what the Guardian announced as a “violent new era.” Only intervention, led by the US and supported by its international partners, could save the troubled republic from an inevitable crisis.

By all accounts, the press projections of Haiti falling to barbarism after the assassination has not happened. But the calls for foreign intervention have continued. These calls have ignored two important and consequential facts. First, previous foreign interventions have been unmitigated disasters. They have led to long-term military occupations that destroyed the Haitian state and marginalized civil society while leaving tens of thousands of Haitians displaced or dead. Second, and most importantly, Haiti is already under occupation. Calls for “intervention” are not only disingenuous, but actually redundant.

The first US intervention and occupation of Haiti officially began with an echo of the present. In 1915, Haitian president Theodore Guillame Sam was murdered – dragged out of the French legation and killed in the streets – after he had imprisoned and then killed a number of his political opponents. Fearing political chaos, and with a desire to protect US interests, persons, and property, the US landed three hundred troops on July 28th, 1915, initiating a military occupation that lasted nineteen years, until 1934.

But the calls for intervention and the strategies for occupation had long preceded Sam’s murder. In the years leading up to the landing of US marines in 1915, the National City Bank of New York was becoming increasingly involved in Haiti’s financial affairs. They pushed for control of Haiti’s railroads, ports, the national bank, and the sovereign debt – and they were encouraged by the US State Department, who had adopted the well-known policy of “dollar diplomacy” throughout the Caribbean region . Bank managers served as shadow representatives of the State Department in Haiti.

CIty Bank officials had already called for US military intervention to protect their Haitian investments before 1914. In 1914, bank vice president Roger Leslie Farnham wrote a memorandum outlining a strategy for occupation, saturated with racial paternalism and ideas of Haitian inferiority, for US secretary of state William Jennings Bryan. The same year, City Bank officials sent a request for US Marines to land in Haiti to move the $500,000 gold reserve from the Banque National d’Haiti in Port-au-Prince to a Wall Street vault. They asserted the action was taken to protect their investments. Haiti’s politicians viewed it as theft, and a deliberate attack on the Republic’s sovereignty.

When intervention and occupation did occur in 1915, the bank consolidated its near-monopoly control of Haiti’s finances, banking, and industry. During the first occupation, the US rewrote the Haitian constitution and installed a puppet president, imposed press censorship and martial law, and brought Jim Crow policies and forced labor to the island. It also initiated a “pacification” campaign against those Haitian militants engaged in armed struggle to protect the republic’s sovereignty. The US military dropped bombs and burned villages, tortured and murdered peasants, and hunted rebel “bandits” for sport.

Of the stated aims of the occupation – building infrastructure, expanding education, and providing internal and regional stability – little was achieved. The longstanding result of the US occupation was the establishment and training of a local police force, the Gendarmerie d'Haïti. Years after the occupation, this police force was used to terrorize the Haitian people.

US troops withdrew in 1934 after a sustained period of protest, begun in 1929 by Haitian students and eventually joined by all classes of Haitians and Haitian allies in the international community.

The US would continue to intervene Haitian affairs, first supporting the brutal dictatorship of Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier and Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, and then again in 1991 as the CIA bankrolled a coup d’etat against the country’s first democratically elect president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. The coup was not consolidated because of continuous resistance from the Haitian people. By 1994, US president Bill Clinton’s administration was forced to bring Aristide back to Haiti after 3 years in exile, with 20,000 troops brought in to quell Haitian resistance. But Aristide was now a hostage to US neoliberal policy. The US troops remained until 1999.

The second occupation of Haiti began in 2004 and was initiated after a coup d'etat sponsored by the U.S., France, and Canada that dethroned elected Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Aristide was kidnapped by US marines and sent to the Central African Republic. US President George W. Bush announced afterwards that he was sending US forces to Haiti to “help stabilize the country.” It is clear, as Glen Ford and Peter Gamble remind us, “George Bush didn’t invent U.S. aggression against Haiti; that’s been U.S. policy since 1804.”

The 2004 illegal coup d’état was both enforced and cleaned up with the sanction of the UN. The UN took over from US forces and established the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (or MINUSTAH) for the tasks of military occupation under the guise of establishing peace and security.

A multi-billion dollar operation, MINUSTAH had, at any given time, between 6000 and 12,000 military troops and police stationed in Haiti alongside thousands of civilian personnel. Like the first US occupation, the UN occupation under MINUSTAH was marked by its  brutality towards Haitian people. Civilians were brutally attacked and assassinated. “Peace-keepers” committed sexual crimes. UN soldiers dumped human waste into rivers used for drinking water, unleashing a cholera epidemic that killed between 10,000 and 50,000 people.

The Core Group -- an international coalition of self-proclaimed non-Black “friends” of Haiti -- emerged through the MINUSTAH occupation in 2004. Its stated goal was to oversee Haiti’s governance. Meanwhile, as with the first occupation, the US and MINUSTAH trained Haitian police forces, reintegrating many of the rogue members into these forces. The US, in collusion with MINUSTAH and the Core Group, also over-rode Haitian democracy, installing both neo-Duvalierist Michel Martelly and his PHTK party, alongside Martelly’s protege and successor, Jovenel Moïse. Moreover, it was under occupation that Haiti was devastated by the 2010 earthquake; all the pledges of humanitarian aid and assistance and the promises to “build back better” have amounted to nothing, the funds grifted by the Haitian oligarchy and comprador bourgeoisie, as well the international community.

While it is claimed that this occupation officially ended in 2017, with the dissolution of MINUSTAH, the UN has remained in Haiti through a new acronym: BINUH, the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti. BINUH has had an outsized role in Haitian internal political affairs. For example, soon after Moïse was killed, its representative, Helen La Lime, asserted that Claude Joseph would be installed as Haiti’s leader. Later on, the “Core Group” switched gears and demanded that Ariel Henry should be president. And this is exactly what happened when a “new” Haitian government was announced on July 20, 2021, with Henry as leader. This without any say from the Haitian people.

It would seem that the goal, and perhaps success, of this occupation has been to not only permanently quell the last vestiges of the mass movement that emerged through the fall of the Duvalier dictatorship and culminated in the 1990 election of Jean Bertrand Aristide. The objective was to also completely and fatally destroy the Haitian state. And with that, the turning of Haiti into a permanent vassal state. In this, the self-hating comprador bourgeoisie, the poodles for white supremacy, have played a significant role. It is noteworthy that, in the wake of Moïse’s assassination, the comprador bourgeois lapdogs (such as Claude Joseph, Joseph Lambert, Ariel Henry) as well as the nonBlack oligarchs (such as Reginal Boulos) rushed first to get the blessings of their white overlords, representatives of the UN occupation force, the Core Group and the U.S. State Department.

For Haiti, both the first occupation, in 1915, and the second, in 2004, were unmitigated disasters. Both were premised on the idea that not only was Haiti falling into chaos and anarchy, but with the deeply racist notion that Haitians are unable to govern themselves. Be it under watch of US Marines, a multinational UN force, or an international cohort of technocratic experts in security and democracy, it seems likely that the ongoing second occupation will be intensified by a formal foreign military intervention.

The occupation will only end with the complete withdrawal of the imperial powers from Haiti.

Peter James Hudson is a writer, editor, and historian who teaches Black Studies at UCLA. He is the author of Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean.

Jemima Pierre is a contributor to Black Agenda Report, the Haiti/Americas Coordinator for the Black Alliance for Peace, and a Black Studies and anthropology professor at UCLA.

Banner photo: UN troops in Haiti. (Swoan Parker/Reuters)

Joint Press Release: Demand the Biden Administration End Its Support for the Brutal Moïse Regime in Haiti

Joint Press Release: Demand the Biden Administration End Its Support for the Brutal Moïse Regime in Haiti

For immediate release

Contacts:

Ajamu Baraka Black Alliance for Peace, 202-643-1136.

Margaret Flowers – Popular Resistance, info@PopularResistance.org, 410-591-0892.

Photo: Click here for photos by Professor Danny Shaw who is currently in Haiti.

Nearly 800 Organizations and Individuals in the United States Demand the Biden Administration End Its Support for the Brutal Moïse Regime in Haiti.

United States - Today, February 24, 72 organizations and 700 individuals published an open letter calling for the Biden administration to end its illegal and destructive intervention in Haiti. While Joe Biden and the Democrats condemned the Trump forces for not respecting the results of the U.S. election, they are supporting Jovenel Moïse’s refusal to leave office after his term as president ended on February 7, 2021. Moïse has unleashed violent gangs, the police and the military against protesters who are demanding that he respect the Constitution and step down.

“President Biden claims to care about racial equity but his actions in Haiti show the emptiness of that rhetoric,” said Ajamu Baraka of the Black Alliance for Peace. “For centuries now, the United States has employed force to dominate Haiti, the first Black Republic that was established in 1804 after the defeat of French and Spanish colonizers. President Biden has an opportunity to demonstrate his commitment to democracy and Black self-determination by ending support for the Moïse regime and denouncing the current violence.”

The past two presidents of Haiti, Michel Martelly and Jovenel Moïse, were hand-picked and forced into office by the United States during the Obama administration against the will of the Haitian people. Moïse is currently ruling by decree after dismissing most of the legislators and refusing to hold elections. With the backing of the Core Group, composed of the United States, Canada, Brazil, France, Germany, Spain, the European Union and the United Nations, Moïse is trying to push a new constitution through using a referendum in April. The new constitution being written by members of the Core Group and without any real participation of the Haitian people would grant greater power to the executive office.

Since February 7, the rogue Moïse government has launched a brutal crackdown on all dissent resulting in home invasions, arrests, the firing of Supreme Court judges and a police inspector general, attacks on the media and the use of chemical agents and live ammunition to disperse protests, as documented by the U. S. Human Rights Clinics.

"The current situation in Haiti is critical," stated Marleine Bastien, the Executive Director of FANM In Action and a leading voice in South Florida's Haitian community. "The Superior Council of Haiti's Judiciary, The Haitian Bar Federation, and credible civil society organizations inside Haiti and their diaspora allies agree that President Moise’s term has in fact ended.  It is time for President Biden to keep his promise and respect the democratic rights and  self-determination of the Haitian people."

Here is the open letter:

On February 7, 2021, Jovenel Moïse’s term as president of Haiti ended - but with the support of the Biden administration he is refusing to leave office. This has created an urgent crisis in the country. A mass movement, reminiscent of the 1986 popular movement that overthrew the brutal U.S.-sponsored dictatorship of Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, is demanding Moïse step down. We are alarmed by the abundance of evidence of severe human rights violations by the Moïse regime to quell the protests.

One of the main calls from the mobilizations of hundreds of thousands in the streets of Port-au-Prince and across Haiti has been for the United States, United Nations and the Organization of American States to stop their interference. These bodies, as part of the “Core Group” of imperialist nations and institutions targeting Haiti, are currently pushing their rewrite of the Haitian Constitution through a referendum on April 25.

These organizations have a long history of neocolonial intervention in Haiti and the region. Ever since the democratically elected president Jean Bertrand Aristide was overthrown for a second time by a U.S.-sponsored coup in 2004, Haiti has been occupied by a United Nations force that, at its height, deployed 14,000 troops and personnel. This occupation has changed form over the years (from MINUSTAH to BINUH), but it is ongoing.

The U.S. government has consistently stood as a barrier to popular democracy in the Americas. The 2009 coup in Honduras; the 2019 coup in Bolivia; and the ongoing blockades of Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela are but several examples of the U.S.’s poor record on human rights and lack of respect for sovereignty in the region. By its own admission, the State Department “works closely with the OAS, UN, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), and individual countries to advance its policy goals in Haiti.” Under the guise of fighting drug trafficking, the U.S. continues to train and fund the Haitian National Police.

The U.S. establishment spin doctors seemingly live in an alternate universe, claiming, "The remarkable lack of popular response to calls for mass protests in recent weeks indicates that Haitian people are tired of endless lockdowns and squabbling over power." The reality is quite the opposite: the Haitian people are united in their call for a peaceful transition to democracy.

We express our solidarity with the Haitian people and our support for their rights to democracy and self-determination. We join our voices to the demands of the Haitian people who are calling for the following:

We demand that Jovenel Moïse

  • Immediately step down.

We demand that the Biden Administration:

  • Withdraw financial support for the illegal constitutional referendum and Moïse dictatorship;

  • Respect the will of the vast majority of the people demanding democracy and Haitian self-determination

  • Reaffirm support for the right to peaceful protest;

  • Immediately cease all U.S. financial and military support to Haiti's security forces

  • Condemn the recent violence against protesters and journalists; and

  • Demand the immediate dismantlement of all paramilitary forces in Haiti and the disarmament of gangs carrying out wanton violence against the popular movement.

The whole world is watching!

Signatories

Organizations:

Black Alliance for Peace
Popular Resistance
Alliance for Global Justice
Anticonquista
Black Alliance for Peace Solidarity Network
CODEPINK
Council on Hemispheric Affairs
International Action Center
National Lawyers Guild
United National Antiwar Coalition

US Peace Council
Veterans For Peace
World Beyond War
Acción Afro-Dominicana
Agenda Solidaridad, Repùblica Dominicana
Australia Solidarity with Latin America
Baltimore Peace Action
Big Apple Coffee Party
Chicago ALBA Solidarity
Coalición de Derechos Humanos
coasap
Diáspora en Acción
Dorothy Day Catholic Worker
Ekta Collective
Environmentalists Against War
Forum of Sao Paulo DC/MD/VA
Friends of Latin America
FURIE - Feminist Uprising to Resist Inequality and Exploitation
Global Coalition for Peace
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
Hilton Head for Peace
International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity
Latin America Solidarity Coalition of Western Massachusetts
LynneStewart.org
Maine War Tax Resistance Resource Center
MLK Coalition of Greater Los Angeles
Micronesian Political Journal
Mississippi Workers’ Center for Human Rights
New Abolitionist Movement
#NJAntiWarAgenda
NJ State Industrial Union Council
New Progressive Alliance
Nodutdol
Northern Virginians for Peace and Justice
NYC Jericho Movement
Occupy Bergen County
Ode to Earth/Echoes of Silence
Pacifica Peace People
Pan Left Productions
PARC | Politics Art Roots Culture
Peace Task Force
Priority Africa Network
Protect Our Activists
Pueblo Sin Fronteras
Roots Action
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
Seattle Anti-War Coalition
Show Up! America
Troika Collective
US Hands Off Cuba and Venezuela South Florida
Veterans For Peace Chapter 92 Seattle, President
Virginia Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality
White Rabbit Grove RDNA
Women Against Military Madness
Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press
Yoga For Peace, Justice, Harmony With the Planet
Broome Tioga Green Party
Democratic World Federalists
Green Party of Monmouth County, NJ
Green Party of New Jersey
MOLHA
Workers World Party - Bay Area
Young Ecosocialists of the Green Party of the United State

Individuals

Ajamu Baraka, National Organizer, Black Alliance for Peace
Margaret Flowers, MD, Director, Popular Resistance
Bahman Azad, General Secretary, US Peace Council

Leah Bolger, World Beyond War
Renate Bridenthal, Professor
Layla Brown, Professor
Charisse Burden-Stelly, Black Alliance for Peace
Brian E. Concannon, Human Rights Lawyer
Gerry Condon, Veterans For Peace
Dr. Edwin E. Daniel, Professor Emeritus
Nicolas J S Davies, Journalist
Jackie DiSalvo, Professor
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Author
Yves Engler, Journalist
Eunice Mina Escobar, Alliance for Global Justice
Leonardo Flores, CODEPINK Latin America Campaign Coordinator
Al Glatkowski, Peace and anti-imperialist activist
Anthony Gronowicz, Professor
Chris Hedges, Author
Madelyn Hoffman, former candidate for US Senate (NJ)
Nicholas J. S. Davies, Journalist
Rev. John Long
Abby Martin, The Empire Files
Patrick McCann, Veterans For Peace
Nan McCurdy, United Methodist Missionary
Tom Neilson, Ed D
Rael Nidess, MD
Anthony O’Brien, Professor (retired)
Eve Ottenberg, Writer
George L. Pauk, MD
David Paul, Embassy Protector
Mike Prysner, The Empire Files
Victor M. Rodriguez, Emeritus Professor
Sr. Claudette Schiratti, RSM
Danny Shaw, Professor
Cindy Sheehan, Peace and Social Justice Activist
Maj. (ret.) Danny Sjursen
David Swanson, World Beyond War
Rev. James L. Swarts
Roger Waters, Musician/Activist
Colonel Ann Wright, Veterans For Peace

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Peter Alexeas
Claire Alexander
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BAP Member Jemima Pierre Discusses U.S./UN Intervention Fueling the Haiti Crisis

BAP Member Jemima Pierre Discusses U.S./UN Intervention Fueling the Haiti Crisis

This week's episode of WPFW’s “Voices With Vision” features a discussion on Haiti. The Haitian people are showing that they are sick and tired of being sick and tired. So “Voices With Vision”’s Netfa Freeman, who represents Pan-African Community Action on BAP’s Coordinating Committee, and co-host Craig Hall, interviewed BAP member Dr. Jemima Pierre, a Haitian-born Associate Professor of Black Studies at the University of California Los Angeles. Dr. Pierre tells it like it really is in a way you won't hear in the U.S. capitalist press. Anchored by the background beat, “Midnight” by Tribe Called Quest, she explains how the United States has overseen Haiti’s politics and economy, while Haiti’s sovereignty has been supplanted by brutal United Nations (UN) “peace-keeping missions” and “stabilization forces.” After political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal's commentary on the Trump impeachment verdict, they open the show with a clip of comedian Paul Mooney.

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WARNING: This show is not for the politically faint of heart 😎

Graphic credit: Netfa Freeman