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#1. Until She Spoke by Frederick Douglass
#2. Daniel Foote’s Resignation Resounds Like Thunder: The departing special envoy to Haiti undiplomatically tells the truth about US policy. By Amy Wilentz
#3. Foote's Resignation! by Joseph Wendy Alliance
#4. Executioner or good Samaritan? by Ricardo Seitenfus
#5. "The Greatest Heist In History:How Haiti Was Forced To Pay Reparations For
Freedom" by Greg Rosalsky NPR
#6. The Montana-Pen alliance seeks the good offices of the Senate and the CSPJ to
find a solution to the crisis
#7. Political crisis: Neither Ariel Henry nor the members of the September 11
agreement will appoint a member to the presidential college
By Robenson Gerard Posted on 2022-02-01 | lenouvelliste.com
#8. Haiti: Ariel Henry has no provision to dismiss elected officials, warns Senator
Patrice Dumont VantBèf Info Jan. 6, 2022
Note: on the next section of this website are more articles on the current Montana-PEN alliance
#1. Until She Spoke by Frederick Douglass
#2. Daniel Foote’s Resignation Resounds Like Thunder: The departing special envoy to Haiti undiplomatically tells the truth about US policy. By Amy Wilentz
#3. Foote's Resignation! by Joseph Wendy Alliance
#4. Executioner or good Samaritan? by Ricardo Seitenfus
#5. "The Greatest Heist In History:How Haiti Was Forced To Pay Reparations For
Freedom" by Greg Rosalsky NPR
#6. The Montana-Pen alliance seeks the good offices of the Senate and the CSPJ to
find a solution to the crisis
#7. Political crisis: Neither Ariel Henry nor the members of the September 11
agreement will appoint a member to the presidential college
By Robenson Gerard Posted on 2022-02-01 | lenouvelliste.com
#8. Haiti: Ariel Henry has no provision to dismiss elected officials, warns Senator
Patrice Dumont VantBèf Info Jan. 6, 2022
#1. "UNTIL SHE SPOKE" Tribute to the Haitian Slave Revolt -1791-1804 by Frederick Douglass
Note by Tom Luce: On January 2, 1893, the Honorable Frederick Douglas, ex-slave, and ex-minister to Haiti gave a tremendous, long, dedication speech at the establishment of the Haitian Pavilion at the World's Fair in Jackson Park, Chicago. The speech dealt with his assessment of the Haitian revolution in 1804 and the many critical, false condemnations of Haiti, and gave a total recommendation of Haiti's unique role in world history as the first state founded by African slaves and as valuable as the United States' achievement of independence. The following is only a small part of Douglass' speech. Of particular interest to me was the issue between Haiti and the United States over the Mole St. Nicholas. This Haitian north peninsula was wanted by the U.S. for a naval station, thought to be much more critical than the unfinished Nicaraguan canal in controlling the area. Douglass said this point of land "will be master of the land and sea in its neighborhood." Haiti refused to turn it over to the U.S. creating a storm of criticism. But Frederick Douglass judged that Haiti had the right to deny this request. See the entire speech at <http://faculty.webster.edu/corbetre/haiti/history/1844-1915/douglass.htm>
Until she spoke, no Christian nation had abolished Negro slavery.
Until she spoke, no Christian nation had given to the world an organized effort to abolish slavery.
Until she spoke, the slave ship, followed by hungry sharks, greedy to devour the dead and dying slaves flung overboard to feed them, ploughed in peace the South Atlantic, painting the sea with the Negro’s blood.
Until she spoke, the slave trade was sanctioned by all the
Christian nations of the world, and our land of liberty and
light included.
Men made fortunes by this infernal traffic, and were
esteemed as good Christians, and the standing types and
representations of the Savior of the World.
Until Haiti spoke, the church was silent, and the pulpit was dumb. Slave-traders lived and slave-traders died.
Funeral sermons were preached over them, and of them it was said that they died in the triumphs of the Christian faith and went to heaven among the just.
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Worldʼs Fair, Chicago, Jan 1893 - Haitian Pavilion 90th anniversary of the Haitian Revolution, Douglass, consul general from the US to Haiti, resigned in protest against US policies toward Haiti. Note: Chicago was founded by a Haitian, son of a slave, Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable.
Until she spoke, no Christian nation had given to the world an organized effort to abolish slavery.
Until she spoke, the slave ship, followed by hungry sharks, greedy to devour the dead and dying slaves flung overboard to feed them, ploughed in peace the South Atlantic, painting the sea with the Negro’s blood.
Until she spoke, the slave trade was sanctioned by all the
Christian nations of the world, and our land of liberty and
light included.
Men made fortunes by this infernal traffic, and were
esteemed as good Christians, and the standing types and
representations of the Savior of the World.
Until Haiti spoke, the church was silent, and the pulpit was dumb. Slave-traders lived and slave-traders died.
Funeral sermons were preached over them, and of them it was said that they died in the triumphs of the Christian faith and went to heaven among the just.
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Worldʼs Fair, Chicago, Jan 1893 - Haitian Pavilion 90th anniversary of the Haitian Revolution, Douglass, consul general from the US to Haiti, resigned in protest against US policies toward Haiti. Note: Chicago was founded by a Haitian, son of a slave, Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable.
#2. Daniel Foote’s Resignation Resounds Like Thunder: The departing special envoy to Haiti undiplomatically tells the truth about US policy. By Amy Wilentz
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/foote-resignation-haiti/
#3. Foote's Resignation!
by Joseph Wendy Alliance
HaitiLiberte September 29, 2021
https://haitiliberte.com/la-demission-de-foote/
Translated by Tom Luce
U.S. envoy Daniel Foote has bowed out. He took advantage of his resignation letter to criticize the government of Ariel Henry and also denounce the policy of the United States in Haiti.
Daniel Foote's resignation, after only two months as President Joseph (Joe) Biden's special envoy to Haiti, has brought to light the flaws in U.S. policy in Haiti for at least the past two to three decades. In fact, over the past 20 years, the Americans, while trumpeting their support for democracy in Haiti through a tactical use of 'megaphone diplomacy,' have basically established a genuine dialogue of the deaf towards Haiti. The various American administrations, Republican and Democratic alike, from the George Bush to the Clintons in their multiple versions, through Barack Obama, going through the rowdy era of an 'unfiltered' Donald Trump to the current administration of Joe Biden, American foreign policy in Haiti has settled, bent in the promotion of a minimalist, electoralist democracy of enormous disconnect from the challenges, the real needs and aspirations for change of a large suffering majority of the Haitian population.
If Daniel Foote justified his resignation on the basis of his refusal to associate himself with the inhuman deportation of Haitian migrants massed on the Mexican-American border in Del Rio, Texas, he took the opportunity to highlight recurring flaws explaining the fact that the American approach to Haiti in the broad sense in recent years is completely missing the 'deeply flawed' plate. The special envoy, in his resignation letter, acknowledges that Haiti's collapsed state is unable to guarantee security and provide basic services to its population.
This is precisely where the problem lies. Why have so many years of a 'mountain' of support for democracy fostered the birth of a failed state where the population is taken hostage by all-powerful gangs, kidnappings, misery, and the indifference of political leaders well undermined in their roles as 'puppets' and whose governing is perfectly the least of their worries? Because basically, the so-called support for democracy has been an almost unwavering support for corrupt, incapable leaders or 'bandi legal'.
Foote's recommendations to remedy this situation only echo what has been demanded for ages by the majority of Haitians whose voice or proposals no longer count to be able to find positive outcomes to the countless crises that accelerate the collapse of the state and the decomposition of our country. Indeed, Haiti needs free rein to be able to choose its leaders without pressure from the United States or the international community in order to be able to properly assume its political destiny.
Will this resignation therefore mark a crucial 'pivotal moment' of examination of conscience or change of American policy in Haiti? Basically, we can doubt it. As Frantz Duval points out in his le Nouvelliste text, 'American Failure, Haitian Shipwreck,' the Biden administration is more likely to engage in a 'damage control' exercise instead of thinking of giving a different direction to U.S. policy in Haiti. Also, while Daniel Foote is the latest foreign diplomat to question the 'catastrophic effects' of U.S. policy or the international community as a whole in Haiti over the past 15-20 years, he is not at all the first.
Ricardo Seitenfus has been there. One could even mention the American diplomat Brian Dean Curran in his farewell speech on July 9, 2003 who had pleaded for a 'new generation of political leadership' including 'talented young professionals' who are 'tested in the melting pot of modern ideas' to take Haiti’s political destiny into their own hands. Alas, since then, the United States has continued to support the same incompetent and anachronistic political class in Haiti. The more it changes, the more it's the same. For his part, the Brazilian diplomat had laid bare hypocrisy, double standards or, to quote Esaü Jean-Baptiste, the 'doublespeak' of the international community in Haiti. Seitenfus was even dismissed from office by the Organization of American States (OAS) for denouncing the maneuvers of the OAS during the 2010 elections where our tutors outright manipulated the results and decided to choose Michel Martelly as the winner of these elections.
It is certainly gratifying to see foreign diplomats taking a dissenting stance on the bad practices of U.S. policy or some international institutions in Haiti, but it is up to Haitian leaders to learn how to become real decision-makers in the interest of their own country. A nation that has entered history through such a great door, that of greatness and dignity, must always, as its history unfolds, scramble like the devil in a holy font (degaje n kou mèt Jean Jacques- ? Help us Master Jean Jacques ?Dessaline -Tom Luce guessing), to assume its political destiny.
If several generations of political leaders have not done enough to 'distort the simple game of the balance of forces' and use all the means at their disposal to assert the Haitian vision of things in our relations with the international community, the fight is not lost. The actors called to emerge must already learn from it in order to make things happen in order to finally inscribe in the political reality of the country the Haitian collective agenda for stability, real democracy, change by gradually moving away from the deleterious vice of the American-UN tutelage.
HaitiLiberte September 29, 2021
https://haitiliberte.com/la-demission-de-foote/
Translated by Tom Luce
U.S. envoy Daniel Foote has bowed out. He took advantage of his resignation letter to criticize the government of Ariel Henry and also denounce the policy of the United States in Haiti.
Daniel Foote's resignation, after only two months as President Joseph (Joe) Biden's special envoy to Haiti, has brought to light the flaws in U.S. policy in Haiti for at least the past two to three decades. In fact, over the past 20 years, the Americans, while trumpeting their support for democracy in Haiti through a tactical use of 'megaphone diplomacy,' have basically established a genuine dialogue of the deaf towards Haiti. The various American administrations, Republican and Democratic alike, from the George Bush to the Clintons in their multiple versions, through Barack Obama, going through the rowdy era of an 'unfiltered' Donald Trump to the current administration of Joe Biden, American foreign policy in Haiti has settled, bent in the promotion of a minimalist, electoralist democracy of enormous disconnect from the challenges, the real needs and aspirations for change of a large suffering majority of the Haitian population.
If Daniel Foote justified his resignation on the basis of his refusal to associate himself with the inhuman deportation of Haitian migrants massed on the Mexican-American border in Del Rio, Texas, he took the opportunity to highlight recurring flaws explaining the fact that the American approach to Haiti in the broad sense in recent years is completely missing the 'deeply flawed' plate. The special envoy, in his resignation letter, acknowledges that Haiti's collapsed state is unable to guarantee security and provide basic services to its population.
This is precisely where the problem lies. Why have so many years of a 'mountain' of support for democracy fostered the birth of a failed state where the population is taken hostage by all-powerful gangs, kidnappings, misery, and the indifference of political leaders well undermined in their roles as 'puppets' and whose governing is perfectly the least of their worries? Because basically, the so-called support for democracy has been an almost unwavering support for corrupt, incapable leaders or 'bandi legal'.
Foote's recommendations to remedy this situation only echo what has been demanded for ages by the majority of Haitians whose voice or proposals no longer count to be able to find positive outcomes to the countless crises that accelerate the collapse of the state and the decomposition of our country. Indeed, Haiti needs free rein to be able to choose its leaders without pressure from the United States or the international community in order to be able to properly assume its political destiny.
Will this resignation therefore mark a crucial 'pivotal moment' of examination of conscience or change of American policy in Haiti? Basically, we can doubt it. As Frantz Duval points out in his le Nouvelliste text, 'American Failure, Haitian Shipwreck,' the Biden administration is more likely to engage in a 'damage control' exercise instead of thinking of giving a different direction to U.S. policy in Haiti. Also, while Daniel Foote is the latest foreign diplomat to question the 'catastrophic effects' of U.S. policy or the international community as a whole in Haiti over the past 15-20 years, he is not at all the first.
Ricardo Seitenfus has been there. One could even mention the American diplomat Brian Dean Curran in his farewell speech on July 9, 2003 who had pleaded for a 'new generation of political leadership' including 'talented young professionals' who are 'tested in the melting pot of modern ideas' to take Haiti’s political destiny into their own hands. Alas, since then, the United States has continued to support the same incompetent and anachronistic political class in Haiti. The more it changes, the more it's the same. For his part, the Brazilian diplomat had laid bare hypocrisy, double standards or, to quote Esaü Jean-Baptiste, the 'doublespeak' of the international community in Haiti. Seitenfus was even dismissed from office by the Organization of American States (OAS) for denouncing the maneuvers of the OAS during the 2010 elections where our tutors outright manipulated the results and decided to choose Michel Martelly as the winner of these elections.
It is certainly gratifying to see foreign diplomats taking a dissenting stance on the bad practices of U.S. policy or some international institutions in Haiti, but it is up to Haitian leaders to learn how to become real decision-makers in the interest of their own country. A nation that has entered history through such a great door, that of greatness and dignity, must always, as its history unfolds, scramble like the devil in a holy font (degaje n kou mèt Jean Jacques- ? Help us Master Jean Jacques ?Dessaline -Tom Luce guessing), to assume its political destiny.
If several generations of political leaders have not done enough to 'distort the simple game of the balance of forces' and use all the means at their disposal to assert the Haitian vision of things in our relations with the international community, the fight is not lost. The actors called to emerge must already learn from it in order to make things happen in order to finally inscribe in the political reality of the country the Haitian collective agenda for stability, real democracy, change by gradually moving away from the deleterious vice of the American-UN tutelage.
#4. Executioner or good Samaritan?
by Ricardo Seitenfus
Submitted on 2021-09-29 | lenouvelliste.com
https://lenouvelliste.com/article/231887/bourreau-ou-bon-samaritain
(translated by Tom Luce)
OAS Special Representative in Haiti (2009-2011), author among other books, of The United Nations and Cholera in Haiti: Guilty but Not Responsible? and The Failure of International Aid to Haiti: Dilemmas and Missteps, both published by C3 Éditions. These books are also available in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
One of the results of the mistakes of the United States strategy in Haiti over two centuries has exploded into the open in the face of the world showing, with supporting images, in the waters of the Rio Grande, Texas, a face of another time of America.
'It's horrible to watch,' White House spokeswoman Jennifer Rene Psaki said. For the first time, images – commonplace of the fate suffered by the Haitian people throughout their history – come knocking on the door of the superpower partly responsible for these clashes and misfortunes. Vice President Kamala Harris says she is 'deeply troubled because human beings should never be treated this way.'
The 'mistreatment of Haitian migrants along the border is horrific and very disturbing,' said Democrat Bennie Thompson, who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee. While Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer has called on President Joe Biden to end the 'despicable' deportations of Haitian migrants who have arrived by the thousands in recent days at the southern border of the United States.
After an inhumane odyssey, a third of the 250,000 Haitians who have arrived in Brazil and Chile since 2012 have come knocking on the door of the United States. Or are on the way, like 19,000 currently stranded at the border between Colombia and Panama. The implausible conditions of these wild migrations show that part of the Haitian population no longer wants to remain prisoners of Hispaniola, thwarting the centuries-old strategy of the United States vis-à-vis Haiti.
The many serious statements of criticism are crowned by the abrupt and resounding resignation of the newly appointed special envoy for Haiti, Ambassador Daniel Lewis Foote. For the first time in history, a senior diplomat turned in his appointment because of Washington's policy in Haiti.
Interspersed with occasional criticism of migration policy or possible solutions to the current Haitian political crisis, Ambassador Foote's resignation letter highlights the “cycle of international political interventions in Haiti [which] will have disastrous consequences not only in Haiti, but in the United States and our neighbors in the hemisphere.”
Through a simple paragraph--so many assertions-- Ambassador Foote undermines myths, men and gods, thus joining those who believe that it is not Haiti that is not prepared for democracy. On the contrary. It is the United States that is not ready to see democracy flourish in Haiti. He interprets that “above all, what our Haitian friends really want, and what they need, is the opportunity to chart their own path, without international puppets and without privileged candidates but with real support for this path. I do not believe that Haiti can enjoy stability until its citizens have the dignity to truly choose their own leaders in a fair and acceptable manner.”
Without delay, Deputy Secretary Wendy R. Sherman, second in the State Department, responded on behalf of the Biden administration to Ambassador Foote. [1] In the same critical, acerbic, personal and not very diplomatic criticism, the State Department document acknowledges that the situation in Haiti “is heartbreaking marked by the assassination of the president, as a result of the horrific storms and earthquakes and all the other hardships that the Haitian people have faced – the permanent challenge of poverty.” Therefore, the two senior diplomats are on the same wavelength: the Haitian situation is untenable.
Therefore, “we intend to do everything possible to help the Haitian people. This has always been the goal of American foreign policy. We want the Haitian people to be able to choose their own future in free and fair elections. We do not take sides with anyone when it comes to this future. It is a decision that belongs to the Haitian people. We intend to promote democracy in Haiti.”
On the interpretation of the past but also on how to face the challenges of the present, here we are, coming from the same administration, even better, from the same building in charge of foreign relations, two diametrically opposed visions on the current and historical role of the United States in Haiti. What is true between the versions of the executioner and the Good Samaritan?
I do not express myself on the current situation in the country where there is total confusion. Used, as always and everywhere, to serve the low interests of those who profit from the chaos. After the vicious assassination of President Moses and the impossibility of reaching any definitive conclusion, the fishermen in troubled waters are at work.
Perhaps I dare to make two observations: if Ambassador Foote did indeed suggest to the State Department that the US military be sent to Haiti, he is on the wrong track because the country needs police security and economic development. The second is the urgent need to abolish the Core Group. It was justified during the MINUSTAH period (2004-2017). Today, it makes no sense.
Dear former colleagues: close this unhealthy shop!
Let's get back to what we were saying. Historically, all administrations have followed the credo expressed by President Thomas Jefferson on the eve of Haitian independence: the United States sees Haiti as a threat. Thus, for Jefferson it “can exist as a great village of chestnuts, a fugitive slave community. There is no question of accepting it in the concert of nations. As long as we prevent blacks from owning ships, we can let them exist, and continue to have very lucrative commercial contacts with them.”
The avowed objective is to prevent the integration of the Haitian economy into international trade. The undeclared goal is of a different nature: Jefferson seeks to gag the circulation of ideas by isolating the revolutionary virus that threatens the foundations of the Western world.
The pecuniary punishment inflicted on Haiti by France in 1826 – US$35 billion – the payment of which extended until the middle of the last century, was accompanied by the financial and political stranglehold of the United States after granting recognition to Haiti's legal existence in 1862. Even before this date and until the occupation (1915-1934), the US Navy had made about twenty incursions into the country. After 1915, it was impossible to understand the evolution of Haiti without a direct, close and constant reference to the United States. Despite the absence of a legal status, Haiti became a de facto protectorate of the United States.
Haiti was a victim of choice in the Cold War. This one arrived at the gates of Florida with the Cuban Revolution and the Missile Crisis, it is during this period that under the blind protection of Washington, everything will be allowed to the dark dictator François Duvalier, lumberjack of his people.
In December 1975, Citibank executive David Edwards invited a young and promising couple of newly married politicians to Haiti, all expenses paid: Hillary Rodham and William Clinton. For the next few decades, no initiative by Washington in Haiti will be made without their blessing.
Thus, in 1981, the United States flooded the Haitian market with its subsidized rice, damaged its rural economy and caused the exodus from the countryside to the cities. Before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on March 10, 2010, Clinton acknowledged that when he was governor of Arkansas, he destroyed Haiti's agricultural economy: 'I'm not accusing anyone. I did it! »
According to the calculations of Terry F. Buss and Adam Gardner, in the last century five presidents of Haiti have been deposed thanks to the direct action of the United States. [2]
In mid-February 2004, Colin Powell told the U.S. Senate Foreign Affairs Committee that he had no intention of sending military personnel because Aristide 'was democratically elected.'[3] The United States goes further by signaling that a coup is unacceptable. [4] However, fifteen days later, it is in a plane of its special forces that Washington sends Aristide into exile.
During Countless Haitian political crises, the Clintons played a major role. First as protector of Aristide. Then like his executioner. The same goes for Préval, perceived as the providential man in 2006 and the man to be shot in November 2010. I opposed the putsch. Hillary shot down Préval's candidate, Jude Célestin, and promoted Martelly's election.
In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, the couple, their relatives and the Clinton Global Initiative Foundation (FCGI) took the reins of Washington's actions and the United Nations system in Haiti. With the results that we know.
From its first meetings, the Interim Commission for the Reconstruction of Haiti (IHRC) has demonstrated its shortcomings. The ambiguous and cross-interest relationships between the FCGI, Ban Ki-moon's special representative Bill Clinton, the head of the US State Department, Hillary Clinton and the US Representative to the IHRC, Cherryl Mills, Hillary Clinton's right-hand man and Bill Clinton's former lawyer in the Monica Lewinski case, are left in a panic. The Clintons' stranglehold on Haitian affairs prevented Barack Obama, after the 2010 earthquake, from visiting Haiti.
More than covering up the lies of the United Nations during the cholera scandal, the United States is sending a brigade of lawyers to the New York Court to prevent the United Nations from being tried. In addition, President Trump, with his vocabulary of a shallow gutter, declared Haiti a shit-hole country and decided not to contribute or contribute a single penny to the Haiti Cholera Control Fund. [5]
There is an active triangle in international relations marked by the mutual interference of the three angles. Thus, the more powerful a state is, the more it will carry out actions of all kinds and the more mistakes it will make. Few states have a surplus of power capable of compensating for its mistakes. This is the prerogative only of the great powers.
Alongside the great achievements – the victory of 1945 – Washington's activism on the international stage has suffered great setbacks – the Vietnam War and most recently the debacle in Afghanistan.
In the context of the American continent, two major failures of Washington's strategy are obvious. Aggravated by the fact that they are a stone's throw from its territory. On the one hand, the failure in Cuba. Sixty years of blockade and the Castro revolution continues. Even after the disappearance of the Castros.
On the other hand, the dramatic situation in Haiti.
A Brazilian proverb emphasizes that 'errar é humano, persistir no erro é burrice' ('to be wrong is a human characteristic, to persist in error is a nonsense').
How can we accept the idea that the best universities, the dozens of think tanks, where specialists of all orders, politicians, diplomats and intellectuals among the most brilliant are swarming, are not able to meet these two challenges? Especially since cooperation truly for the benefit of the people of Haiti, without ulterior motives and ideological overtones, could become the touchstone of the new continental relations.
It was on my proposal that Cuba and the Dominican Republic were included as observers in the Interim Haiti Reconstruction Commission (IHRC). [6] Despite the failure of this one and there, the failure of trans-ideological cooperation, this is the only way to go. The noble and urgent mission of effectively helping the recovery of the Haitian people would then become the meeting point of our dissonances.
IHRC: Bill Clinton, Ricardo Seitenfus and Lorenzo Somarriba, Head of cuba's Medical Brigades in Haiti (Personal Archives)
[1] https://www.state.gov/deputy-secretary-wendy-sherman-with-michael-wilner-of-mcclatchy-washington-bureau/
[2] Haiti in the Balance: Why Foreign Aid Has Failed and What We Can Do About It, Brookings Institution Press, 2009.
[3] BBC News, 14 February 2004.
[4] Ibid.
5] https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/06/01/trump-wont-pay-a-penny-for-un-cholera-relief-fund-in-haiti/.
[6] https://ayibopost.com/pourquoi-la-cirh-a-echoue-analyses-de-ricardo-seitenfus/
https://lenouvelliste.com/article/231887/bourreau-ou-bon-samaritain
(translated by Tom Luce)
OAS Special Representative in Haiti (2009-2011), author among other books, of The United Nations and Cholera in Haiti: Guilty but Not Responsible? and The Failure of International Aid to Haiti: Dilemmas and Missteps, both published by C3 Éditions. These books are also available in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
One of the results of the mistakes of the United States strategy in Haiti over two centuries has exploded into the open in the face of the world showing, with supporting images, in the waters of the Rio Grande, Texas, a face of another time of America.
'It's horrible to watch,' White House spokeswoman Jennifer Rene Psaki said. For the first time, images – commonplace of the fate suffered by the Haitian people throughout their history – come knocking on the door of the superpower partly responsible for these clashes and misfortunes. Vice President Kamala Harris says she is 'deeply troubled because human beings should never be treated this way.'
The 'mistreatment of Haitian migrants along the border is horrific and very disturbing,' said Democrat Bennie Thompson, who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee. While Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer has called on President Joe Biden to end the 'despicable' deportations of Haitian migrants who have arrived by the thousands in recent days at the southern border of the United States.
After an inhumane odyssey, a third of the 250,000 Haitians who have arrived in Brazil and Chile since 2012 have come knocking on the door of the United States. Or are on the way, like 19,000 currently stranded at the border between Colombia and Panama. The implausible conditions of these wild migrations show that part of the Haitian population no longer wants to remain prisoners of Hispaniola, thwarting the centuries-old strategy of the United States vis-à-vis Haiti.
The many serious statements of criticism are crowned by the abrupt and resounding resignation of the newly appointed special envoy for Haiti, Ambassador Daniel Lewis Foote. For the first time in history, a senior diplomat turned in his appointment because of Washington's policy in Haiti.
Interspersed with occasional criticism of migration policy or possible solutions to the current Haitian political crisis, Ambassador Foote's resignation letter highlights the “cycle of international political interventions in Haiti [which] will have disastrous consequences not only in Haiti, but in the United States and our neighbors in the hemisphere.”
Through a simple paragraph--so many assertions-- Ambassador Foote undermines myths, men and gods, thus joining those who believe that it is not Haiti that is not prepared for democracy. On the contrary. It is the United States that is not ready to see democracy flourish in Haiti. He interprets that “above all, what our Haitian friends really want, and what they need, is the opportunity to chart their own path, without international puppets and without privileged candidates but with real support for this path. I do not believe that Haiti can enjoy stability until its citizens have the dignity to truly choose their own leaders in a fair and acceptable manner.”
Without delay, Deputy Secretary Wendy R. Sherman, second in the State Department, responded on behalf of the Biden administration to Ambassador Foote. [1] In the same critical, acerbic, personal and not very diplomatic criticism, the State Department document acknowledges that the situation in Haiti “is heartbreaking marked by the assassination of the president, as a result of the horrific storms and earthquakes and all the other hardships that the Haitian people have faced – the permanent challenge of poverty.” Therefore, the two senior diplomats are on the same wavelength: the Haitian situation is untenable.
Therefore, “we intend to do everything possible to help the Haitian people. This has always been the goal of American foreign policy. We want the Haitian people to be able to choose their own future in free and fair elections. We do not take sides with anyone when it comes to this future. It is a decision that belongs to the Haitian people. We intend to promote democracy in Haiti.”
On the interpretation of the past but also on how to face the challenges of the present, here we are, coming from the same administration, even better, from the same building in charge of foreign relations, two diametrically opposed visions on the current and historical role of the United States in Haiti. What is true between the versions of the executioner and the Good Samaritan?
I do not express myself on the current situation in the country where there is total confusion. Used, as always and everywhere, to serve the low interests of those who profit from the chaos. After the vicious assassination of President Moses and the impossibility of reaching any definitive conclusion, the fishermen in troubled waters are at work.
Perhaps I dare to make two observations: if Ambassador Foote did indeed suggest to the State Department that the US military be sent to Haiti, he is on the wrong track because the country needs police security and economic development. The second is the urgent need to abolish the Core Group. It was justified during the MINUSTAH period (2004-2017). Today, it makes no sense.
Dear former colleagues: close this unhealthy shop!
Let's get back to what we were saying. Historically, all administrations have followed the credo expressed by President Thomas Jefferson on the eve of Haitian independence: the United States sees Haiti as a threat. Thus, for Jefferson it “can exist as a great village of chestnuts, a fugitive slave community. There is no question of accepting it in the concert of nations. As long as we prevent blacks from owning ships, we can let them exist, and continue to have very lucrative commercial contacts with them.”
The avowed objective is to prevent the integration of the Haitian economy into international trade. The undeclared goal is of a different nature: Jefferson seeks to gag the circulation of ideas by isolating the revolutionary virus that threatens the foundations of the Western world.
The pecuniary punishment inflicted on Haiti by France in 1826 – US$35 billion – the payment of which extended until the middle of the last century, was accompanied by the financial and political stranglehold of the United States after granting recognition to Haiti's legal existence in 1862. Even before this date and until the occupation (1915-1934), the US Navy had made about twenty incursions into the country. After 1915, it was impossible to understand the evolution of Haiti without a direct, close and constant reference to the United States. Despite the absence of a legal status, Haiti became a de facto protectorate of the United States.
Haiti was a victim of choice in the Cold War. This one arrived at the gates of Florida with the Cuban Revolution and the Missile Crisis, it is during this period that under the blind protection of Washington, everything will be allowed to the dark dictator François Duvalier, lumberjack of his people.
In December 1975, Citibank executive David Edwards invited a young and promising couple of newly married politicians to Haiti, all expenses paid: Hillary Rodham and William Clinton. For the next few decades, no initiative by Washington in Haiti will be made without their blessing.
Thus, in 1981, the United States flooded the Haitian market with its subsidized rice, damaged its rural economy and caused the exodus from the countryside to the cities. Before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on March 10, 2010, Clinton acknowledged that when he was governor of Arkansas, he destroyed Haiti's agricultural economy: 'I'm not accusing anyone. I did it! »
According to the calculations of Terry F. Buss and Adam Gardner, in the last century five presidents of Haiti have been deposed thanks to the direct action of the United States. [2]
In mid-February 2004, Colin Powell told the U.S. Senate Foreign Affairs Committee that he had no intention of sending military personnel because Aristide 'was democratically elected.'[3] The United States goes further by signaling that a coup is unacceptable. [4] However, fifteen days later, it is in a plane of its special forces that Washington sends Aristide into exile.
During Countless Haitian political crises, the Clintons played a major role. First as protector of Aristide. Then like his executioner. The same goes for Préval, perceived as the providential man in 2006 and the man to be shot in November 2010. I opposed the putsch. Hillary shot down Préval's candidate, Jude Célestin, and promoted Martelly's election.
In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, the couple, their relatives and the Clinton Global Initiative Foundation (FCGI) took the reins of Washington's actions and the United Nations system in Haiti. With the results that we know.
From its first meetings, the Interim Commission for the Reconstruction of Haiti (IHRC) has demonstrated its shortcomings. The ambiguous and cross-interest relationships between the FCGI, Ban Ki-moon's special representative Bill Clinton, the head of the US State Department, Hillary Clinton and the US Representative to the IHRC, Cherryl Mills, Hillary Clinton's right-hand man and Bill Clinton's former lawyer in the Monica Lewinski case, are left in a panic. The Clintons' stranglehold on Haitian affairs prevented Barack Obama, after the 2010 earthquake, from visiting Haiti.
More than covering up the lies of the United Nations during the cholera scandal, the United States is sending a brigade of lawyers to the New York Court to prevent the United Nations from being tried. In addition, President Trump, with his vocabulary of a shallow gutter, declared Haiti a shit-hole country and decided not to contribute or contribute a single penny to the Haiti Cholera Control Fund. [5]
There is an active triangle in international relations marked by the mutual interference of the three angles. Thus, the more powerful a state is, the more it will carry out actions of all kinds and the more mistakes it will make. Few states have a surplus of power capable of compensating for its mistakes. This is the prerogative only of the great powers.
Alongside the great achievements – the victory of 1945 – Washington's activism on the international stage has suffered great setbacks – the Vietnam War and most recently the debacle in Afghanistan.
In the context of the American continent, two major failures of Washington's strategy are obvious. Aggravated by the fact that they are a stone's throw from its territory. On the one hand, the failure in Cuba. Sixty years of blockade and the Castro revolution continues. Even after the disappearance of the Castros.
On the other hand, the dramatic situation in Haiti.
A Brazilian proverb emphasizes that 'errar é humano, persistir no erro é burrice' ('to be wrong is a human characteristic, to persist in error is a nonsense').
How can we accept the idea that the best universities, the dozens of think tanks, where specialists of all orders, politicians, diplomats and intellectuals among the most brilliant are swarming, are not able to meet these two challenges? Especially since cooperation truly for the benefit of the people of Haiti, without ulterior motives and ideological overtones, could become the touchstone of the new continental relations.
It was on my proposal that Cuba and the Dominican Republic were included as observers in the Interim Haiti Reconstruction Commission (IHRC). [6] Despite the failure of this one and there, the failure of trans-ideological cooperation, this is the only way to go. The noble and urgent mission of effectively helping the recovery of the Haitian people would then become the meeting point of our dissonances.
IHRC: Bill Clinton, Ricardo Seitenfus and Lorenzo Somarriba, Head of cuba's Medical Brigades in Haiti (Personal Archives)
[1] https://www.state.gov/deputy-secretary-wendy-sherman-with-michael-wilner-of-mcclatchy-washington-bureau/
[2] Haiti in the Balance: Why Foreign Aid Has Failed and What We Can Do About It, Brookings Institution Press, 2009.
[3] BBC News, 14 February 2004.
[4] Ibid.
5] https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/06/01/trump-wont-pay-a-penny-for-un-cholera-relief-fund-in-haiti/.
[6] https://ayibopost.com/pourquoi-la-cirh-a-echoue-analyses-de-ricardo-seitenfus/
# 5 'The Greatest Heist In History': How Haiti Was Forced To Pay Reparations For Freedom
by Greg Rosalsky NPR click "NPR" to go to article.
October 5, 2021 10:25 AM ET click "NPR" for article
"In recent weeks, thousands of refugees from Haiti have arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border, desperate for a better life. Most left Haiti years ago, after a 2010 earthquake ravaged what was already one of the most dismal economies in the world. They had originally settled in places like Chile, but the politics of the region have made them feel unwelcome, discriminated against, and fearful of the future.
The Haitian refugees hoped the United States, under President Biden, would offer them a lifeline. They were wrong. The Biden administration has been sending thousands back to Haiti, even though Haiti is a disaster zone, and many of the refugees fled it years ago. Some of those the U.S. government forcibly sent to Haiti are kids who have never lived there......."
The Haitian refugees hoped the United States, under President Biden, would offer them a lifeline. They were wrong. The Biden administration has been sending thousands back to Haiti, even though Haiti is a disaster zone, and many of the refugees fled it years ago. Some of those the U.S. government forcibly sent to Haiti are kids who have never lived there......."
#6 The Montana-Pen Alliance seeks the good offices of the Senate and the CSPJ to find a solution to the crisis
by Robenson Geffrard, Le Nouvelliste 02/04/2022
https://lenouvelliste.com/article/234069/lalliance-montana-pen-sollicite-les-bons-offices-du-senat-et-du-cspj-pour-trouver-une-solution-a-la-crise
(Note: translated with the help of ImTranslator <https://about.imtranslator.net/about/company/> by Tom Luce
After signing a political consensus for the establishment of a five-member presidential college to lead the transition, the Montana-PEN alliance is now turning to the Supreme Council of the Judiciary and one-third of the Senate to find a solution. Consensual to the political crisis a few days before the date of February 7. In correspondence sent on February 3 to the CSPJ and the Senate, the Montana-PEN consensus seeks the good offices of the Senate and the CSPJ to find a broad consensus...
'Since the second Monday of January 2021, before the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, the governance crisis had already begun with the lapse of the Chamber of Deputies and the reduction of the Senate of the Republic to one third of its elected representatives. Parliament thus becoming dysfunctional. No election, at any level, having been organized, there is no elected official in the municipalities and the territorial collectivities”, we read in the correspondences of Montana-PEN to the CSPJ and to the third of the Senate.
Montana-PEN pointed out that “as of the start of 2021, the executive branch has operated unconstitutionally, illegally and illegitimately. Faced with the collapse of the state and the inability of executive leaders to provide for the needs of our people and the worsening of impoverishment, faced with the denial of our political and social rights, a multitude of sectors of civil society, popular organizations and political parties have agreed to seek a Haitian solution to the crisis. »
'This approach, which is part of the reconquest of our sovereignty, allows us to choose our leaders in this period of transition and lay the essential milestones for this essential break with these bad practices of our leaders claimed by the whole country', according to the Montana-PEN alliance.
For this group of political parties and civil society organizations, this month of February 2022 announces an exacerbation of the collapse of major state institutions. “The Court of Cassation (supreme court) will try to work with a third of its members. It is almost impossible to replace the others and to validate them, in the absence of a President of the Republic. The judiciary is shaken because the terms of most judges have expired,” Montana-PEN remarked to senators and CSPJ members.
'With a desire for harmony and unity, the signatories of the modified MONTANA / PEN consensus and the GREH have come together to call on your institution to do everything possible to enable the country to find the most as possible to achieve lasting peace and establish a climate conducive to the holding of participatory and transparent general elections', asked Montana-PEN in two letters addressed to Frantzy Philémon, vice-president of the Superior Council of the Judiciary and to Joseph Lambert, president of the third of the Senate.
“We stand ready for a meeting with a view to creating this national consensus alone capable of creating the conditions to relieve the suffering of all of us,” concludes the Montana-PEN alliance.
It should be noted that these correspondences come about a week after the members of the Montana Accord organized elections which led to the election of Fritz Alphonse Jean, president of the transition, and Steven Benoît, Prime Minister, while the members of PEN multiply the meetings in order to arrive at the choice of their representative within the presidential college of five members.
After signing a political consensus for the establishment of a five-member presidential college to lead the transition, the Montana-PEN alliance is now turning to the Supreme Council of the Judiciary and one-third of the Senate to find a solution. Consensual to the political crisis a few days before the date of February 7. In correspondence sent on February 3 to the CSPJ and the Senate, the Montana-PEN consensus seeks the good offices of the Senate and the CSPJ to find a broad consensus...
'Since the second Monday of January 2021, before the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, the governance crisis had already begun with the lapse of the Chamber of Deputies and the reduction of the Senate of the Republic to one third of its elected representatives. Parliament thus becoming dysfunctional. No election, at any level, having been organized, there is no elected official in the municipalities and the territorial collectivities”, we read in the correspondences of Montana-PEN to the CSPJ and to the third of the Senate.
Montana-PEN pointed out that “as of the start of 2021, the executive branch has operated unconstitutionally, illegally and illegitimately. Faced with the collapse of the state and the inability of executive leaders to provide for the needs of our people and the worsening of impoverishment, faced with the denial of our political and social rights, a multitude of sectors of civil society, popular organizations and political parties have agreed to seek a Haitian solution to the crisis. »
'This approach, which is part of the reconquest of our sovereignty, allows us to choose our leaders in this period of transition and lay the essential milestones for this essential break with these bad practices of our leaders claimed by the whole country', according to the Montana-PEN alliance.
For this group of political parties and civil society organizations, this month of February 2022 announces an exacerbation of the collapse of major state institutions. “The Court of Cassation (supreme court) will try to work with a third of its members. It is almost impossible to replace the others and to validate them, in the absence of a President of the Republic. The judiciary is shaken because the terms of most judges have expired,” Montana-PEN remarked to senators and CSPJ members.
'With a desire for harmony and unity, the signatories of the modified MONTANA / PEN consensus and the GREH have come together to call on your institution to do everything possible to enable the country to find the most as possible to achieve lasting peace and establish a climate conducive to the holding of participatory and transparent general elections', asked Montana-PEN in two letters addressed to Frantzy Philémon, vice-president of the Superior Council of the Judiciary and to Joseph Lambert, president of the third of the Senate.
“We stand ready for a meeting with a view to creating this national consensus alone capable of creating the conditions to relieve the suffering of all of us,” concludes the Montana-PEN alliance.
It should be noted that these correspondences come about a week after the members of the Montana Accord organized elections which led to the election of Fritz Alphonse Jean, president of the transition, and Steven Benoît, Prime Minister, while the members of PEN multiply the meetings in order to arrive at the choice of their representative within the presidential college of five members.
#7. Political crisis: Neither Ariel Henry nor the members of the September 11 agreement will appoint a member to the presidential college
By Robenson Gerard Posted on 2022-02-01 | lenouvelliste.com
https://lenouvelliste.com/article/233977/ni-ariel-henry-ni-les-membres-de-laccord-du-11-septembre-ne-designeront-de-membre-au-college-presidentiel
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Officially, Prime Minister Ariel Henry did not react seventy-two hours after the elections organized within the framework of the Montana agreement which led to the election of Fritz Alphonse Jean, President, and Steven Benoît, Prime Minister. Signers of the September 11 agreement rule out any possibility for the acting Prime Minister to appoint a member to the five-member presidential college as provided for in the Montana-PEN political consensus.
“We are at a crossroads where we must rethink the political actions of this country in order to achieve a much more profitable result for the Haitian people. I continue to believe that there are much more serious things to settle instead of embarking on this form of distraction in bad taste,” told the Nouvelliste Edmonde Supplice Beauzile, president of the political organization Fusion, signatory of the political agreement with Ariel Henry and member of the government.
For his part, Atty. André Michel, spokesperson for the Democratic and Popular Sector (SDP), signatory of the Prime Minister's agreement, declared to the newspaper: 'Just like the agreement of September 11, 2021, the Montana agreement is a Haitian initiative. I respect it. Does this Montana process have a one in a thousand chance of succeeding? Frankly I do not know. The bottom line is that this is a Haitian initiative that deserves to be fully appreciated; especially since I have many personal friends who engage in this process. »
Do the signatories of the September 11 agreement intend to appoint a member to the presidential college as provided for in the Montana-PEN political consensus? To this question from the newspaper, Atty. André Michel replied in these terms: “What a story! The signatories of the September 11 agreement do not have to appoint a member of the presidential college. The September 11 agreement does not provide for the establishment of a presidential college. This presidential college affair does not bind the signatories of the September 11 agreement. »
“All in all, the SDP is in favor of the continuation of the dialogue between the various actors to find the broad consensus essential to the political stability of the country while remaining deeply attached to the agreement of September 11, 2021”, added André Michel.
A member of the government told Le Nouvelliste that Ariel Henry is in full execution of the September 11 agreement. “How do you ask him to renege on his agreement to associate with something else? If so, he would first have to distance himself from the 9/11 agreement and now endorse the Montana agreement. All this to tell you that the Prime Minister and we, signatories of the September 11 agreement, have remained committed to our agreement…”, he confided to the newspaper on condition of anonymity.
According to the political consensus reached during the month of January between the Montana Accord and the National Memorandum of Understanding (PEN), the presidency will be led by a presidential college of five members chosen by political and civil society organizations. .
Each of the following three structures will appoint a member to the presidential college: the Montana Accord, the National Memorandum of Understanding (PEN) and the government in place. According to the criteria defined by the National Transitional Council, a structure set up within the framework of the application of the Montana agreement, important organizations of civil society will appoint the other two members of the presidential college after validation by the members political consensus, reads the document signed between the Montana Accord and the PEN. The presidential college will include at least one woman, clarified the political consensus.
The new Prime Minister of the transitional government was appointed according to the mechanisms of the Montana agreement, last Sunday with the election of former senator Steven Benoît. Fritz Alphonse Jean was elected president under the Montana agreement. It now remains the choice of PEN, those of civil society organizations and that of the Prime Minister…
Officially, Prime Minister Ariel Henry did not react seventy-two hours after the elections organized within the framework of the Montana agreement which led to the election of Fritz Alphonse Jean, President, and Steven Benoît, Prime Minister. Signers of the September 11 agreement rule out any possibility for the acting Prime Minister to appoint a member to the five-member presidential college as provided for in the Montana-PEN political consensus.
“We are at a crossroads where we must rethink the political actions of this country in order to achieve a much more profitable result for the Haitian people. I continue to believe that there are much more serious things to settle instead of embarking on this form of distraction in bad taste,” told the Nouvelliste Edmonde Supplice Beauzile, president of the political organization Fusion, signatory of the political agreement with Ariel Henry and member of the government.
For his part, Atty. André Michel, spokesperson for the Democratic and Popular Sector (SDP), signatory of the Prime Minister's agreement, declared to the newspaper: 'Just like the agreement of September 11, 2021, the Montana agreement is a Haitian initiative. I respect it. Does this Montana process have a one in a thousand chance of succeeding? Frankly I do not know. The bottom line is that this is a Haitian initiative that deserves to be fully appreciated; especially since I have many personal friends who engage in this process. »
Do the signatories of the September 11 agreement intend to appoint a member to the presidential college as provided for in the Montana-PEN political consensus? To this question from the newspaper, Atty. André Michel replied in these terms: “What a story! The signatories of the September 11 agreement do not have to appoint a member of the presidential college. The September 11 agreement does not provide for the establishment of a presidential college. This presidential college affair does not bind the signatories of the September 11 agreement. »
“All in all, the SDP is in favor of the continuation of the dialogue between the various actors to find the broad consensus essential to the political stability of the country while remaining deeply attached to the agreement of September 11, 2021”, added André Michel.
A member of the government told Le Nouvelliste that Ariel Henry is in full execution of the September 11 agreement. “How do you ask him to renege on his agreement to associate with something else? If so, he would first have to distance himself from the 9/11 agreement and now endorse the Montana agreement. All this to tell you that the Prime Minister and we, signatories of the September 11 agreement, have remained committed to our agreement…”, he confided to the newspaper on condition of anonymity.
According to the political consensus reached during the month of January between the Montana Accord and the National Memorandum of Understanding (PEN), the presidency will be led by a presidential college of five members chosen by political and civil society organizations. .
Each of the following three structures will appoint a member to the presidential college: the Montana Accord, the National Memorandum of Understanding (PEN) and the government in place. According to the criteria defined by the National Transitional Council, a structure set up within the framework of the application of the Montana agreement, important organizations of civil society will appoint the other two members of the presidential college after validation by the members political consensus, reads the document signed between the Montana Accord and the PEN. The presidential college will include at least one woman, clarified the political consensus.
The new Prime Minister of the transitional government was appointed according to the mechanisms of the Montana agreement, last Sunday with the election of former senator Steven Benoît. Fritz Alphonse Jean was elected president under the Montana agreement. It now remains the choice of PEN, those of civil society organizations and that of the Prime Minister…
#8. Haiti: Ariel Henry has no provision to dismiss elected officials, warns Senator Patrice Dumont
January 6, 2022 in the spotlight, Politics
https://vantbefinfo.com/patrice-dumont/
an article by the news outlet, Vant Bef Info (
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In an interview given to the editorial staff of Vant Bèf Info (VBI), this Wednesday, January 5, Senator Pierre Paul Patrice Dumont specifies that the mandate of the elected representatives constituting one third of the Senate will end on the second Monday in January 2023. The West elected official claims that Prime Minister Ariel Henry has plans to fire the remaining 10 senators on January 10, 2021.
Port-au-Prince, January 5, 2021.- “The mandate of the 10 senators is secondary to the collapse the country is facing. We are no longer in the weapon of dialectics, we are in the dialectic of weapons, ”says Senator Pierre Paul Patrice Dumont. “Everywhere, armed gangs operate. The state apparatus is taken hostage, ”recalls the parliamentarian.
“The question of the mandate of senators is a symptom of the total and institutional crisis in which the country is plunged,” the Elected One of the West considers. “It is enough to have a minimum of good faith to read article 95 of the constitution and article 50-3 and 239 of the electoral decree of 2015 under whose aegis one third of the Senate is elected. The third of the Senate in question had not come to fill a void, especially since those who were before us have completed their term,” added the native of Léogane.
To put an end to rumors suggesting that he had submitted his resignation, he argued that 'the normal option is to remember that I have a contract that runs until 2023. On the second Monday of 2023, I will not have nobody to tell me that my mandate has come to an end”, he continues. During this interview, Senator Dumont confirms the inclination of the Prime Minister regarding the dismissal of parliamentarians. “The de facto prime minister, Ariel Henry, has no legal and constitutional provisions to dismiss elected officials,” argues Senator Dumont.
“I am aware that Ariel Henry has spoken to many personalities about the mandate of the third of the Senate. A collaborator of Ariel Henry informed me that at least three of them informed him that the mandate of the ten senators must come to an end in 2023.
However, he is committed to respecting his mandate and is determined to return the company vehicle made available to him in January 2023. If he believes that the international community, in particular the United States, plays an important role in the current crisis, Patrice Dumont believes that it is up to Haitian actors to rise to the occasion.
Vant Bèf Info (VBI)
In an interview given to the editorial staff of Vant Bèf Info (VBI), this Wednesday, January 5, Senator Pierre Paul Patrice Dumont specifies that the mandate of the elected representatives constituting one third of the Senate will end on the second Monday in January 2023. The West elected official claims that Prime Minister Ariel Henry has plans to fire the remaining 10 senators on January 10, 2021.
Port-au-Prince, January 5, 2021.- “The mandate of the 10 senators is secondary to the collapse the country is facing. We are no longer in the weapon of dialectics, we are in the dialectic of weapons, ”says Senator Pierre Paul Patrice Dumont. “Everywhere, armed gangs operate. The state apparatus is taken hostage, ”recalls the parliamentarian.
“The question of the mandate of senators is a symptom of the total and institutional crisis in which the country is plunged,” the Elected One of the West considers. “It is enough to have a minimum of good faith to read article 95 of the constitution and article 50-3 and 239 of the electoral decree of 2015 under whose aegis one third of the Senate is elected. The third of the Senate in question had not come to fill a void, especially since those who were before us have completed their term,” added the native of Léogane.
To put an end to rumors suggesting that he had submitted his resignation, he argued that 'the normal option is to remember that I have a contract that runs until 2023. On the second Monday of 2023, I will not have nobody to tell me that my mandate has come to an end”, he continues. During this interview, Senator Dumont confirms the inclination of the Prime Minister regarding the dismissal of parliamentarians. “The de facto prime minister, Ariel Henry, has no legal and constitutional provisions to dismiss elected officials,” argues Senator Dumont.
“I am aware that Ariel Henry has spoken to many personalities about the mandate of the third of the Senate. A collaborator of Ariel Henry informed me that at least three of them informed him that the mandate of the ten senators must come to an end in 2023.
However, he is committed to respecting his mandate and is determined to return the company vehicle made available to him in January 2023. If he believes that the international community, in particular the United States, plays an important role in the current crisis, Patrice Dumont believes that it is up to Haitian actors to rise to the occasion.
Vant Bèf Info (VBI)