[News] Haiti, Raped by the U.S. Since 2004, and Still Bleeding

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Haiti, Raped by the U.S. Since 2004, and Still Bleeding

Wed, 01/11/2012 - 02:28 ­ Glen Ford

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The horrific squandering of Haitian lives and 
earthquake relief and aid dollars by the 
occupying powers over the past two years are 
direct consequences of previous imperial crimes. 
“Since 2004, Haiti has been methodically stripped 
of its sovereignty, made into a protectorate of 
the United Nations,” which is merely a front for 
the United States. “The earthquake of January 
2010 was a natural phenomenon that happened to 
take place while a rape was in progress.”



Haiti, Raped by the U.S. Since 2004, and Still Bleeding

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

“The United States has flexed every superpower 
muscle to prolong Haiti’s agony.”

In the American media, Haiti is most often spoken 
of as a tragedy – when it is actually the scene 
of horrific crimes, mainly perpetrated by the 
United States over the span of two centuries. For 
the past two years, since the earthquake that 
shook the life out of hundreds of thousands of 
already deeply wounded people, the United States 
has flexed every superpower muscle to prolong Haiti’s agony.

Half a million people are still homeless, two 
years after the quake, despite the billions in 
relief and recovery aid pledged by international 
donors. Sixty percent of the rubble has yet to be 
removed from the capital and its suburbs, and 
6,000 people have died from a cholera epidemic 
brought into the country by United Nations 
troops. The UN has still not seen fit to 
apologize for being the vector of disease, 
because the UN is not accountable to the people 
of Haiti – only to the United States. The 
Americans used a huge chunk of their so-called 
aid money to 
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themselves for the cost of their military 
occupation of the country. Dead, dying, sick, 
starving, homeless Haitians are made to pay for 
their own imprisonment in their native land, 
while Washington gloats that it is Haiti’s last, 
best hope, and that the catastrophic earthquake 
might have been a good thing, a chance for a “new 
beginning” under Washington's firm guidance.

Millions were spent to choreograph crooked 
elections that brought to office a government 
with no power, even less money, and not a shred 
of dignity – a puppet regime held in absolute 
disrespect by its American puppeteers.

“Washington gloats that it is Haiti’s last, best 
hope, and that the catastrophic earthquake might have been a good thing.”

Meanwhile, Haiti’s most popular political party 
remains, for all official purposes, an outlaw, 
effectively banned from civic participation. The 
Haitian people are not allowed to speak. And this 
is the heart of the crime, from which all the 
grand and petty assaults on the Haitian nation, 
flow. This week’s anniversary of the killer 
earthquake is full of morbid statistics on 
physical destruction, death and disease, but the 
appalling numbers cannot separate these two years 
of horror from the crimes that came before: the 
isolation and armed extortion of Haiti by United 
States and Europe following her 1804 victory 
against French slavery, leaving the Black 
republic with a debt that was not paid off until 
the 1940s; the 26 separate invasions of Haiti by 
the United States from 1849 to 1915, followed by 
a nearly 20-year occupation that lasted until 
1934; and the U.S. overthrow of Haiti's popularly 
elected president, Jean Bertrand Aristide, in 
2004, the 200th anniversary of Haiti's 
independence. Since 2004, Haiti has been 
methodically stripped of its sovereignty, made 
into a protectorate of the United Nations, which 
is merely a front for the real rulers, the United 
States and its junior partners, France and Canada.

The earthquake of January 2010 was a natural 
phenomenon that happened to take place while a 
rape was in progress. The rapists in Washington 
take their greatest pleasure in Haiti's 
degradation. Haiti needs nothing from the United 
States, except to be left alone, as a free nation 
in the world, to make friends as it chooses. It 
is not natural disaster that holds her back, but 
naked U.S. aggression – because all people have 
the capacity to rise, unless they are held down by overwhelming force.

For Black Agenda Radio, I'm Glen Ford. On the 
web, go to <http://www.BlackAgendaReport.com/>www.BlackAgendaReport.com.

BAR executive editor Glen Ford can be contacted 
at <mailto:Glen.Ford at BlackAgendaReport.com>Glen.Ford at BlackAgendaReport.com.




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