[News] Haiti Urgent Action Alert!

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Urgent Action Alert

End US Support for Dictatorship and Terror in Haiti

No More Deportations of Haitians


February 7th marked the expiration of the term of office for the 
illegitimate Haitian acting prime minister Ariel Henry. It also marks 
the date on which the Duvalier dictatorship was overthrown in 1986. 
Throughout Haiti, popular organizations are calling for the end of the 
Henry regime and the installation of a transitional government. Yet the 
Biden Administration continues to insist that Henry remain prime 
minister, with no mandate and no legitimacy.


Henry was appointed as prime minister by then president Jovenel Moise, 
shortly before Moise was assassinated. Moise was a corrupt dictator who 
took office after a series of stolen elections organized by the UN and 
denounced as “electoral coups” by the popular movement. His tenure was 
marked by continuous mass protests demanding his ouster. In the 
aftermath of Moise’s assassination, Henry was selected to rule Haiti by 
the so-called Core Group, consisting of the US, UN, France, Canada, 
Germany, Brazil, Spain, the EU and the OAS, which has maintained 
colonial control over Haiti’s government since the US-orchestrated coup 
d’etat that overthrew the democratically elected government of President 
Jean-Bertrand Aristide in February 2004.


As prime minister, Henry has continued the repressive policies of the 
post-coup occupation regimes, maintaining a reign of terror directed at 
opposition communities. Paramilitary groups aligned with police and 
other government security forces have committed a series of horrific 
massacres, kidnappings and rapes. With the prices of fuel and food 
soaring, and with the escalating insecurity and repression, Haitians 
have had enough.


In November 2018, Fanmi Lavalas, the people’s party of Haiti, issued a 
call for a transitional government, called Sali Piblik (a government of 
public safety) to stop the repression, end corruption and impunity, 
rebuild the economy and pave the way for free and fair elections. This 
call has been echoed since then by numerous popular organizations and 
opposition parties, all demanding that the current government step down 
immediately.


On August 30th, 2021, these groups, including Fanmi Lavalas, met at the 
Hotel Montana and signed what is known as the "Citizens Conference for a 
Solution to the Crisis" or Montana Accord for short, laying out the 
steps towards a transition to democratic governance in Haiti.


The Biden Administration and the Core Group have rejected the notion of 
a transitional government, insisting that Ariel Henry remain in office 
and organize a new round of elections. At the same time, they have 
attempted to sabotage the Montana Accord by intervening in the process, 
demanding the imposition of Henry and other members of his reactionary 
regime, and promoting their own choices for any new government that 
emerges, all in opposition to the letter and spirit of the Accord. This 
is a recipe for more stolen elections, more repression, more corruption, 
and more terror.


As it attempts to thwart moves towards ending dictatorship in Haiti, the 
Biden Administration has deported more than 19,000 Haitian refugees, in 
one of the speediest mass deportations in US history. Having fled from 
conditions produced by US policy in Haiti, they are now being sent back 
into the US-created nightmare they fled.


This is a time for all of us to stand in solidarity with Haiti.


Please call, tweet and/or email President Biden to demand:

Stop the expulsions and deportations of Haitian refugees! End all 
support for the Ariel Henry dictatorship!


Call the White House TUESDAY to THURSDAY, 11am-3pm ET
 202-456-1111; 
tweet @JoeBiden



Haiti Action Committee
PO Box 2040
Berkeley,CA 94702
https://haitisolidarity.net

haiti action <action.haiti at gmail.com>

<https://haitisolidarity.net/donate/>
/Please direct your donation for Haiti earthquake relief to the Haiti 
Emergency Relief Fund www.haitiemergencyrelief.org 
<http://www.haitiemergencyrelief.org>.Thank you./
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