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Haiti faces a serious political crisis. The country has experienced great political difficulties ever since gaining independent nationhood in 1804. Impaired governance stems in large measure from U.S. meddling over many years. We examine the current crisis and the basis for U.S. zeal to curtail Haiti’s future.
Mass demonstrations have continued intermittently since mid-2018, when two million Haitians were in the streets. At various times, protesters have called for relief from high prices for oil and gas, the result of IMF austerity decrees; relief from shortages of basic supplies; punishment of government officials who embezzled billions in funds from Venezuela’s PetroCaribe program of low-cost oil for Caribbean peoples (President Jovenel Moïse stole $700,000); and Moïse’s resignation.
AMY GOODMAN: Today, a
Democracy Now! special celebrating 25 years on the air. On February 19th, 1996, on the eve of the New Hampshire presidential primary,
Democracy Now! aired for the first time on nine community radio stations.
AMY GOODMAN: This is
Democracy Now! From Pacifica Radio, I’m Amy Goodman in Washington. Today on
Democracy Now!, “Live Free or Die,” a look at the political landscape in New Hampshire, where the Republican Revolution has taken its toll.
ARNIE ARNESEN: If you want a taste of the country after the revolution, you might as well visit New Hampshire today, because we’re the state that has the most regressive taxes in the country, that doesn’t have mandatory kindergarten, that doesn’t invest in its infrastructure.
USCGC Harriet Lane transporting Haitian asylum seekers in 1991. USCG photo.
Coast Guard techniques for blocking Haitian asylum seekers have their roots in the slave trade. Understanding these connections can help us disentangle immigration policy from white nationalism.
Around midnight in May 2004, somewhere in the Windward Passage, one of the Haitian asylum seekers trapped on the flight deck of the U.S. Coast Guard’s
USCGC Gallatin had had enough.
He arose and pointed to the moon, whispering in hushed tones. The rest of the Haitians, asleep or pretending to be asleep, initially took little notice. That changed when he began to scream. The cadence of his words became erratic, furious insurgent. After ripping his shirt into tatters, he gestured wildly at the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) watchstanders on duty.
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With the approaching Feb. 7th anniversary of the overthrow of dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, more and more demonstrations have been taking place all over Haiti. People have enough of the worsening conditions of misery under the dictatorship of Jovenel Moise of the “PHTK (Party of Haitian Skin Heads)” that has the full support of the US-UN occupation. As the crisis and repression intensify, the number of dead and injured by the US-UN trained police and affiliated G9 death squads continues to mount.
Haitians are calling for a “Sali Piblik” government to end the corrupt system and bring about real change.