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<p>The US and Canada have been arguing for a multilateral military
intervention in Haiti led by the army of a third country, possibly even
Rwanda, to support the puppet regime that they installed. They are using
“gang violence” as the racist excuse, but there are actually more gang
killings in Jamaica. In fact, the people of Haiti have been protesting
in the streets to get the <a href="https://binuh.unmissions.org/en" rel="nofollow" class="gmail-0" target="_blank">UN<span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_Group#:~:text=The%20Core%20Group%20is%20an,the%20Organization%20of%20American%20States." rel="nofollow" class="gmail-0" target="_blank">Core Group<span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a> out of Haiti and get the US to stop supporting the illegitimate, unelected prime minister, Ariel Henry.</p>
<p>I spoke to <a href="https://haitisolidarity.net/" rel="nofollow" class="gmail-0" target="_blank">Haiti Action Committee<span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a>
activist Seth Donnelly, a public school teacher who has traveled to
Haiti over 20 times since the 2004 coup that removed President
Jean-Bertrand Aristide.</p>
<p><strong>ANN GARRISON:</strong> Seth Donnelly, can you tell us what you see going on in Haiti?</p>
<p><strong>SETH DONNELY:</strong> Yes, absolutely. The current situation
is one of a neocolonial dictatorship, installed primarily by the United
States, under the UN occupation.</p>
<p><strong>AG:</strong> That's the <a href="https://binuh.unmissions.org/en" rel="nofollow" class="gmail-0" target="_blank">UN mission<span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a> that the UN Security Council renewed on July 14, right? Not the foreign military force that the US and Canada are pushing for.</p>
<p><strong>SD:</strong> Right. So since the US-orchestrated coup in 2004
against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and hundreds of other
democratically elected officials at all levels, Haiti has been under
occupation. And within that context, in 2011 the US installed the
current regime that is in power in Haiti, that of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_T%C3%A8t_Kale_Party" rel="nofollow" class="gmail-0" target="_blank">Haitian Tèt Kale Party<span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a> (PHTK).</p>
<p>When I say installed, there's extensive evidence that Hillary Clinton, the Secretary of State, literally <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/03/10/hillary-clinton-needs-to-answer-for-her-actions-in-honduras-and-haiti/" rel="nofollow" class="gmail-0" target="_blank">intervened<span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a>,
went to Haiti and maneuvered Michel Martelly into power after
US-sponsored elections that were already fraudulent, given that the the
largest political party in the country, Fanmi Lavalas, wasn’t allowed to
participate.</p>
<p>Martelly is like the godfather of the PHTK, a very right-wing
powerbroker connected to the Haitian oligarchy. He handpicked a
successor, Jovenel Moise, who took power after more <a href="https://globalexchange.org/2016/12/15/haiti-november-20th-elections-delegation-report/" rel="nofollow" class="gmail-0" target="_blank">fraudulent<span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a> US-sponsored elections in 2016.</p>
<p>Readers may know that Jovenel Moise was then assassinated in the summer of 2021. Based on the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/12/world/americas/jovenel-moise-haiti-president-drug-traffickers.html" rel="nofollow" class="gmail-0" target="_blank">evidence<span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a>
that keeps being unearthed, this was quite possibly a US-backed
assassination involving elements within the PHTK, including the current
US-backed, unelected prime minister, Ariel Henry.</p>
<p>So under this current Ariel Henry regime, we have seen a
proliferation of massacres carried out by the police and what US media
calls gangs. They're more accurately understood as paramilitaries,
heavily armed paramilitaries, many of which work closely with the
police, such as the G-9 Federation, led by the ex-police officer, Jimmy
Chérizier, popularly known as “Barbecue.” A few notorious examples of
such massacres include the 2018 <a href="https://www.nlg.org/report-the-lasalin-massacre-and-the-human-rights-crisis-in-haiti/" rel="nofollow" class="gmail-0" target="_blank">Lasalin massacre<span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a> (see this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6kQH-_IrAg&ab_channel=TheRealNewsNetwork" rel="nofollow" class="gmail-0" target="_blank">video<span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a>) and the <a href="https://www.ijdh.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/DelegationPressReleaseFinal5-08-2.pdf" rel="nofollow" class="gmail-0" target="_blank">2019 massacres<span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a>
in the Tokyo and Site Vensan (Cite Vincent) neighborhoods. The Harvard
Law School International Human Rights Clinic documented this pattern in
its 2021 report <a href="https://hrp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Killing_With_Impunity-1.pdf" rel="nofollow" class="gmail-0" target="_blank">“Killing with Impunity: State-Sanctioned Massacres in Haiti.”<span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a></p>
<p>These paramilitaries and the police have laid siege to popular
neighborhoods of resistance to the regime. They've destroyed them,
burned down houses, and massacred men, women, and children.</p>
<p><strong>AG:</strong> And what has the International Monetary Fund been doing amidst all this?</p>
<p><strong>SD:</strong> The PHTK regime has loyally implemented IMF dictates. For example, <a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/09/19/nbqg-s19.html" rel="nofollow" class="gmail-0" target="_blank">removing the fuel subsidy<span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a>.
And that has resulted in cost-push inflation, which has created the
worst hunger crisis in Haiti in many generations. Over half the
population is now suffering from extreme food insecurity and
malnutrition. Children are once again eating mud cookies. By March 2023,
a record <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/mar/24/haiti-faces-hunger-emergency-amid-escalating-gang-violence-and-surging-inflation" rel="nofollow" class="gmail-0" target="_blank">4.9 million people<span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a>
were experiencing acute hunger, nearly half the population. Haiti’s
food inflation is among the highest in the world, increasing by <a href="https://tradingeconomics.com/haiti/food-inflation" rel="nofollow" class="gmail-0" target="_blank">48%<span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a> between February 2022 and February 2023.</p>
<p><strong>AG: </strong>There haven't been any recent elections, have there?</p>
<p><strong>SD:</strong> There's not a single official legitimately left
in office, because the regime is incapable of holding free and fair
elections. All formerly elected officials are legally termed out.</p>
<p>So this is the situation in which the Biden administration is arguing
for yet another “intervention,” which is really more of an invasion, as
if that's the solution. It’s akin to pretending that the arsonists will
put out the fire they started.</p>
<p><strong>AG:</strong> Canada too, right? Both US and Canadian mining companies are heavily involved in Haiti.</p>
<p><strong>SD:</strong> Right. Canada too, and that’s clearly one of the main reasons the US and Canada have both been pushing this intervention.</p>
<p><strong>AG: </strong>And what about the Haitian people?</p>
<p><strong>SD:</strong> The Haitian people have been out in the streets
protesting the idea of a foreign intervention. Operating at the base of
the mass movement of the poor majority is Fanmi Lavalas, the most
significant political party in Haiti, which has consistently been the
target of US-backed political repression and terror. The mass movement
demands that there be no foreign intervention. The Haitian people are
struggling today to complete the revolution of 1804, to affirm their
right to self-determination, to dismantle this hated neocolonial regime,
and install a <a href="https://haitisolidarity.net/fanmi-lavalas-calls-for-sali-piblik/" rel="nofollow" class="gmail-0" target="_blank">genuine transition government<span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a>.</p>
<p>So that's where we're at, and the Biden administration has doubled
down in supporting the government, despite opposition from even some
Democrats in Congress. Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken
continue to treat Ariel Henry as if he's a legitimate leader that needs
to be at the table for negotiations. They continue to <a href="https://haitiantimes.com/2022/07/15/us-gives-training-and-48m-more-to-fight-crime-in-haiti/" rel="nofollow" class="gmail-0" target="_blank">fund<span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a> the police hand over fist despite massive evidence that the police are linked to the gangs and paramilitaries.</p>
<p><strong>AG:</strong> Biden has been mercilessly deporting Haitians too, hasn’t he?</p>
<p><strong>SD: </strong>Biden has <a href="https://quixote.org/biden-has-deported-nearly-as-many-haitians-in-his-first-year-as-the-last-three-presidents-combined" rel="nofollow" class="gmail-0" target="_blank">deported<span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a> more Haitians than the last three presidents combined. That’s Trump, Obama, and Bush Jr.</p>
<p>Haitians are fleeing hunger and violence, and if they make it to the
US/Mexico border, they’re rounded up en masse, as we saw in the photos
of the US Border Patrol chasing refugees, border patrol agents on horses
using the reins as whips.</p>
<p>So this is an absolute humanitarian disaster. It's arguably the worst
human rights crisis in the Americas. And it's made in the USA.</p>
<p><strong>AG:</strong> What about Biden’s support for the police?</p>
<p><strong>SD:</strong> The police in Haiti are deeply connected to the
repression and to the massacres, as well as targeted killings of
journalists. There've been a lot of journalists, independent
journalists, killed by the police. For example, on October 30th, 2022,
police <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/news/world/2022/11/01/protests-haiti-over-death-journalist-romelo-vilsaint/10659085002/" rel="nofollow" class="gmail-0" target="_blank">shot an unarmed journalist<span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a>, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/caribbean-journalists-port-au-prince-haiti-b973049adf13229dccdd3dd4c6825bdf" rel="nofollow" class="gmail-0" target="_blank">Romelo Vilsaint<span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a>,
in the head, and killed him during a protest at the Delmas police
station where he and other journalists were demanding the release of a
jailed colleague, Robest Dimanche. Police had previously detained
Dimanche when he was covering a street protest.</p>
<p>And we can contrast the Biden administration support for the police
with how the administration sanctioned the Cuban police after a
relatively minor crackdown in Cuba after the protests in July 2021. I
think there may have been one fatality in that, whereas in Haiti, the
police killings are epidemic, and all the US does is shower them with
more money.</p>
<p><strong>AG:</strong> The news is reporting that there are only 9000
police in Haiti, and more are needed. This proposed international
intervention is supposed to help them. I don't think those pushing it
are likely to get it past the Security Council, and they know that, so
they’re talking about some sort of multilateral force organized and sent
in without UN Security Council approval.</p>
<p><strong>SD:</strong> Right. One of President Aristide’s greatest
accomplishments— before the second US-backed coup d’état in 2004—was to
dissolve the Haitian military. The military had been a backbone of US
control during the Papa Doc and Baby Doc dictatorships throughout the
20th century. </p>
<p>President Aristide instead sought to develop a small, professional
police force, with training from countries such as Switzerland, that
could protect, rather than terrorize, the Haitian people. Since the 2004
coup, the US has supported the reintegration of former military and
death squad elements back into this police force, funding its
transformation once again into an agent of terror.</p>
<p>The narrative being put out in the US media, and by the US and
Canadian governments and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres—who is
very much involved in this occupation—is that the police are outgunned
by the “gangs” and that the police need more equipment and weapons and
training and the support of foreign intervention.</p>
<p>What that narrative misses is that the police are heavily weaponized
against the people, and overwhelmingly, at very high levels of command,
working with the paramilitaries to terrorize the population. </p>
<p><strong>AG:</strong> How are people on the ground resisting all this?</p>
<p><strong>SD:</strong> There was an interesting development that
started this past spring. The population rose up against the
paramilitaries or “gangs” who had been occupying their neighborhoods.
This became known as the “Bwa Kale” movement. And then, within a matter
of weeks, the population brought the level of violence and the
kidnappings down dramatically.</p>
<p>This did involve violence by ordinary people who have just been
pushed to the brink, but what Bwa Kale shows you is that when the people
organize at a base level, they can tackle the problem of insecurity. So
clearly funding the police is not working to bring down crime. What
brings down crime is people taking power.</p>
<p><strong>AG:</strong> What sort of privilege is the regime getting from being in power?</p>
<p><strong>SD:</strong> Well, first, it's your classic neocolonial
regime, in the most direct sense that it was literally installed by the
US. Hillary Clinton, who, like I said, maneuvered the first PHTK leader,
Martelly, into power, so there's that classic architecture of
colonialism.</p>
<p>Second, Haiti is mineral rich. It’s got bauxite. It's got petroleum,
gold, and more. Because of the racism in the US media and the ignorance
it inflicts, Americans are always asking, “Oh, why is Haiti so poor?”
but Haiti is not poor. Haiti is <a href="https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-are-the-major-natural-resources-of-haiti.html" rel="nofollow" class="gmail-0" target="_blank">resource<span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a> rich. It's just the most plundered country in the Americas, similar to the Congo.</p>
<p>The regime has even been trying to change the mining law to give it
more power. As it is now, the parliament has to approve mining
concessions, but the PHTK regime wants to make that an executive
decision, so that gold mining companies from Canada and the United
States can just come in without having to go through Parliament.</p>
<p>Regime officials also accumulate wealth by:</p>
<ul><li>Engaging in pervasive corruption and the massive <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/06/11/731640235/protesters-demand-resignation-of-haitian-president-over-corruption-allegations" rel="nofollow" class="gmail-0" target="_blank">looting of public funds<span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a>.</li><li>Perpetuating <a href="https://capiremov.org/en/experience/women-resist-land-grabbing-and-free-zone-in-haiti/" rel="nofollow" class="gmail-0" target="_blank">land grabs<span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a> and <a href="https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/haitian-farmers-file-complaint-at-inter-american-development-bank-for-financing-caracol-industrial-park-project-that-caused-displacement/" rel="nofollow" class="gmail-0" target="_blank">the dispossession of Haitian farmers<span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a>, including by former PHTK President Jovenel Moise himself to enlarge his personal <a href="https://landportal.org/news/2016/02/haiti%E2%80%99s-fraudulent-presidential-frontrunner-seizes-land-his-own-banana-republic" rel="nofollow" class="gmail-0" target="_blank">banana republic<span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a>.</li></ul>
<p>There's tremendous pocketing of public monies by high level PHTK officials. Hence what they call the <a href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article245045015.html" rel="nofollow" class="gmail-0" target="_blank">PetroCaribe scandal<span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a>, provoking huge street protests in 2018.</p>
<p>There are linkages between this regime and the small number of
families that dominate the import/export businesses, including organized
crime, in Haiti. That’s most likely why Jovenel Moise was killed. He
was probably stepping on the wrong toes.</p>
<p>So there are a lot of economic advantages to the regime, and I'm sure
that filters down to various levels of the police force, who are
getting paid off and protected from paramilitary violence by working
with the paramilitaries.</p>
<p><strong>AG:</strong> Are there any decent police? </p>
<p><strong>SD:</strong> There are officers who are dedicated to
protecting the population, but many of them have been killed. There’ve
been police protests against the PHTK regime by police officers who say
they’re being set up to be killed because the government and the PHTK
are working with the paramilitaries.</p>
<p><strong>AG: </strong>Okay, so you say there's a lot of resource
extraction going on. It's just not benefiting the people. And this means
gold, petroleum, and various minerals, including bauxite?</p>
<p><strong>SD: </strong>Yeah. It would be good to do the type of
research that folks have been doing since the coup in Peru against
Castillo—looking at the mining concessions under the current regime in
Peru.</p>
<p><strong>AG: </strong>I’ve seen in the Congo that studying and reporting on mining concessions can be a good way to get yourself killed.</p>
<p><strong>SD:</strong> I’m sure but I know folks have been doing that research in Haiti.</p>
<p>And in addition to the mining there are of course the free trade
zones for exploiting Haitian labor. The Clintons funded the construction
of this big free trade zone in the north of Haiti, the <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/karlazabludovsky/haiti-industrial-park-caracol" rel="nofollow" class="gmail-0" target="_blank">Caracol Industrial Park<span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a> for textiles that led to a lot of <a href="https://www.actionaidusa.org/work/land-grabbing-in-haiti-the-caracol-industrial-park/" rel="nofollow" class="gmail-0" target="_blank">land grabbing<span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a>.</p>
<p><strong>AG:</strong> When you say the Clintons, do you mean the Clintons operating through various NGOs or Bill Clinton when he was president?</p>
<p><strong>SD:</strong> No, I mean, more recently, the Caracol
Industrial Park was backed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and
funded by the Obama Administration. When Bill Clinton was president he
likewise pushed the neoliberal policies onto Haiti that led, among other
things, to the <a href="https://haitisolidarity.net/in-the-news/how-the-united-states-crippled-haitis-domestic-rice-industry/" rel="nofollow" class="gmail-0" target="_blank">destruction<span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a> of Haiti’s domestic rice production.</p>
<p><strong>AG:</strong> In this context, I think we should note that <a href="http://www.haitianphotos.com/photos/hillary-clintons-brother-and-haiti-gold-mine-permit-raises-e.html" rel="nofollow" class="gmail-0" target="_blank">Hillary Clinton's brother Tony Rodham<span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a> was put on the board of a corporation that was then given a Haitian gold mining lease.</p>
<p><strong>SD:</strong> Yes.</p>
<p><strong>AG:</strong> And not because he knows anything about gold mining.</p>
<p><strong>SD: </strong>I don't think many people in this country
adequately grasp the sheer criminality of the Clintons in particular.
The Clintons, as instruments of US imperialism in Haiti, have been very
destructive in so many ways, going all the way down to the trailers that
were sent to supposedly house people after the 2010 earthquake. <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/shelters-clinton-built/" rel="nofollow" class="gmail-0" target="_blank">The Clinton Foundation installed trailers<span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a> that were sent from New Orleans and that were contaminated with formaldehyde.</p>
<p><strong>AG: </strong>OK, let me try to summarize the layers of
conflict you’ve been describing here. The US, which represents various
resource extractivist industries and individuals, put an oligarchic
regime in power. This oligarchic regime is using the police and some of
these paramilitary gangs to control the people amidst all this spiraling
violence and chaos while the US and Canada are both doubling down in
their support for it. There are various police, paramilitary, criminal
and oligarchic elements competing for power. And at the same time you
have a popular uprising being repressed by the oligarchy, the police,
the paramilitary “gangs,” and the UN occupation, which could soon expand
to further “multilateral intervention” backed by the US and Canada.</p>
<p><strong>SD: </strong>That’s it in a nutshell.</p>
<p><strong>AG: </strong>Lastly then, could you tell us some more about
the popular movement and the role that Jean-Bertrand Aristide is still
playing in it?</p>
<p><strong>SD: </strong>Lavalas refers to the mass, grassroots movement
of workers, peasants, street vendors, students, and other sectors that
successfully toppled the Baby Doc Duvalier dictatorship and created the
conditions for the free and fair elections of 1990 that led to the
landslide victory of President Aristide. In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreyol" rel="nofollow" class="gmail-0" target="_blank">Kreyol<span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a>,
Lavalas means flood, the idea being that each of us is a drop of water
and that when we unite, we become a flood. The Lavalas movement and its
political party, Fanmi Lavalas, remain the most potent political forces
on the ground today in Haiti. The Haitian people have not forgotten the
very real <a href="https://65c874.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/We_Will_Not_Forget_2010.pdf" rel="nofollow" class="gmail-0" target="_blank">achievements<span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a> in education, healthcare, housing, food production, and human rights when Lavalas was in power prior to the last coup.</p>
<p>Fanmi Lavalas candidates have dominated in every free and fair
election, thus the 2004 coup and political exclusion and repression ever
since under US domination. Despite this, President Aristide returned to
Haiti from exile in South Africa in 2011, against the opposition of
President Obama. Since his return to Haiti, he has, with <a href="https://haitiemergencyrelief.org/" rel="nofollow" class="gmail-0" target="_blank">international solidarity<span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a>, reopened and expanded <a href="https://unifa-edu.info/contenu/" rel="nofollow" class="gmail-0" target="_blank">UNIFA<span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a>,
a flagship university—with medical, legal, engineering, and agronomy
schools—that provides education to those otherwise unable to access it.
UNIFA is a beacon of hope today in Haiti and a symbol of the new Haiti
that the masses of the people in the street are struggling to build.</p>
<p><strong><em>Ann Garrison is a Black Agenda Report Contributing Editor based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2014, she received the </em><a href="http://www.rifdp-iwndp.org/letter-from-ann-garrison-on-sharing-the-victoire-prize-with-pere-sampol-i-mas/" rel="nofollow" class="gmail-0" target="_blank"><em>Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza Democracy and Peace Prize</em><span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a><em>for
her reporting on conflict in the African Great Lakes region. She can be
reached at ann(at)<a href="http://anngarrison.com">anngarrison.com</a>. Please help to support her work on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/annmgarrison" rel="nofollow" class="gmail-0" target="_blank">Patreon<span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a>.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Seth Donnelly is a public school teacher who has been to
Haiti more than 20 times since the 2004 coup that removed President
Jean-Bertrand Aristide. He is also the author of “</em></strong><a href="https://monthlyreview.org/product/lie_of_global_prosperity/#:~:text=The%20Lie%20of%20Global%20Prosperity%20convincingly%20exposes%20the%20spurious%20arguments,capitalism%20in%20the%20new%20millennium." rel="nofollow" class="gmail-0" target="_blank"><strong><em>The Lie of Global Prosperity: How Neoliberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitation</em></strong><span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a><strong><em>” from Monthly Review Press.</em></strong></p>
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