Haitians were the first Africans enslaved by the Europeans to be brought to the "New World" for the free use of their labor to build wealth for the newer feudal lords of Europe.

 

After the Haitian revolution, those who classify themselves as "whites" united to re-enslave Haiti through neocolonialism, financial colonialism, forced assimilation and bourgeois democracy, and have faced the unrelenting opposition of indigenous Haitian-Africans ever since.

(See, Ezili HLLN's 14-Points for the Voiceless in Haiti: For a Return of Haiti's Sovereignty and for Disaster relief, Rebuilding with Human Rights, Healing and Dignity - http://bit.ly/9lXlRF ; HLLN's 2009 Haiti Policy Statement for the Obama Team
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/HaitiPolicyToObama.html#policy and Even on these ashes we continue to fight for freedom - http://bit.ly/98G1h8 .)

Since the fall of the US-supported Duvalier dictatorship in 1986, the US, CIA, National Endowment for Democracy and State Department have poured billions into destroying the popular movement in Haiti, headed by President Aristide.

Through USAID, the CIA and NGOs, the US has poured billions into financing U.S. trade policies applications and “democracy enhancement” programs that uphold, finance and support the anti-democratic sector - what they term the “independent sector” - against the popular sector that wants the assets of the Haiti to benefit the citizens of Haiti, not corporate interests, foreign nationals, NGOs and the Haiti Oligarchy. (Youtube Video: Philip Agee - Inside the CIA (Covert Action in Haiti, Guatemala))

In the 300-years of slavery, the colonizers used enslaved Haiti labor to produce coffee, sugar, mangoes, cut wood, et al.. to be used by their consumers abroad.

Now that cotton picking is industrialized, Mama Hillary Clinton at Obama's State Department, Papa Clinton at the UN, Barrack Obama at the White House, USAID and their Haiti Oligarchy subcontractors, along with the Black Caucus in the United States, are assisting Haiti enslavement with the H.O.P.E. Act where Blacks are made to assemble cotton and other textile T-shirts and clothes at starvation wages. No capital is left in Haiti and Haitian domestic production, consumption and distribution are marginalized and destroyed, for instance, by US policies subsidizing Clinton’s Arkansas rice corporations. Two million Haitians are homeless, dying in storms and more may die when a hurricane hit, but the US State Department that weakened the Haitian government with coup d'etat is pouring its diplomatic efforts into deals for Korean factories, Brazilian factories, Dominican factories and building factories that will use poor Haitian labor, not into helping Haitian survive, get homes, living wage jobs and educate their children.

At least in the time of outright enslavement, housing, food and shelter was provided.

Today two million Haitians are homeless after the earthquake. USAID is pushing Monsanto giant agribusiness to institutionalize its hybrid seeds into Haiti, so that even the subsistence Haiti farmers, not just the urban assembly plant factory workers, will be dependent and further enslaved by United States corporations. Poverty is a business and the NGOs are there to blunt the enslavement policies of the United States, France and Canada while cashing in on their own citizens compassion for Haiti’s misery.

Everyone knows that compassion and benevolence are not recognized currencies in this capitalistic world. Bottom line is the NGOs are raking in misery dollars, US is keeping Haitians hungry, dying, sick, homeless, frightened and cowered in order to coerce Haitians into to accepted the wretched starvation wages of the foreign factory plants, the puppet Haitian government, UN occupation and false benevolence of the NGOs.

Haiti’s natural riches and strategic geopolitical value to the United States are always downplayed.

Fact is, Haiti is that weakest link in the crescent formation tipped by Cuba, Venezuela at the bottom and opening from the Bay of Port au Prince (filled with oil) towards the Caribbean Basin, filled with a seabed rich with oil and other natural resources coveted by the world's ONLY SUPERPOWER. That’s besides the fact that Cuba and Venezuela are the only other countries in the Western Hemisphere to use the assets of their nation to the benefit of their people and that goes against the profit-over-people narrative of US-Euro “free market” and “free enterprise” democracy. Haiti is that place where the US keeps the Haitian example stunted and the Cuban and Venezuelan revolutions from spreading.

That is why, on Haiti’s sacred bicentennial year, in 2004, Haiti's popular president was forcibly put on a US plane by US Special Forces good at rendition, deported and forbidden to return home to Desalin's Haiti by the Euro-US powers and their various black faces upholding the profit-over-people world system, including Colin Power, Condi Rice, Kofi Annan.

Today, Barrack Obama is continuing this crime and assault on the Haitian people, their sovereignty, right to life, right to the assets of their own country, security, liberty, dignity, freedom of association, opinion and assembly and peaceful association.

Since that Bush regime change, the Haitian populace are simply not allowed to mobilize and vote for a popular president and parliament.

The Bush/Clinton group reign with their NGO republic in Desalin's land, or so they believe. The NGOs provide food, better shelter and jobs to those who maintain this US-Euro perceived interests. Lavalas supporters are ostracized, jailed indefinitely, exiled and starved.

The United States is financing the upcoming November 28 election-under-occupation aimed at bringing back the days when a small click - the co-opted Haiti army and oligarch, chose Haiti's president and parliamentarians.

All elections in Haiti, since the 2004 Bush bicentennial regime change, have excluded the Lavalas party of President Aristide and are efforts at consolidating US, France, Canada corporate and geopolitical strategic interests. (US and France Scold Displaced Haitians and Other Whiners for Being 'Impatient' and 'Unrealistic'.)

It's fair to say, not one of the 19 candidates has popular appeal to change the export-led USAID/NGO paradigm and dumping of NGO charity workers, pharmaceutical, agri-business excesses and their products in Haiti. The crop of presidential candidates is all variously amenable to corporate business rule in Haiti and to US assembly plants as “development.” They are technocrats, a musician and one of the oligarch's merchants. So the United States and its allies are most happy to pour money into these fraudulent elections. The Black masses are excluded, so its good governance. All they need now is to replace the failed Bill Clinton brand at the UN supposedly facilitating donor country pledges and put the Congressional Black Caucus in charge of Haiti rebuilding to further blunt the enslavement...


End of Part 1

Ezili Dantò of HLLN
September, 2010