Leve Kanpe Avèk Ayiti International Coalition

In March 2021, the International Coalition held a global day of action to stand alongside the people of Haiti and against the attempts by the illegitimate and illegal President of Haiti at the time Jovenel Moise  to establish a dictatorship in Haiti with the support of the imperialist governments of the west.  Nearly none of yesterday’s coverage mentioned the longstanding demands for justice raised by social movement organizations: the end to impunity starting with the PetroCaribe trial, the engagement of the state in the management of life in the country through the provision of housing, schools, electricity, water, and hospitals, the redistribution of land on which to grow local foods and on which to establish lives according to their vision of the human and healthy (non-transactional and non-exploitative) human relations.

In the last month of Jovenel Moïse rule he oversaw​

Assasinations
1 1
Kidnappings
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Massacres
multiple

Analysis

Analysis the day after the Haitian president’s assassination focused on liberal constitutionalism and elections. This narrow view overlooks the longstanding demands from organized popular sectors.

This power vacuum with no legitimate heir is the recipe for a power grab, wherein the strongest will prevail. Whose interests are served in this chaos? Who stands to gain? At the moment, several factions, mercantile elites and gangs each have power and control.

Activists in Haiti are clear that they do not want a foreign invasion or an occupation force. Not only woefully failing at its mission of disarmament, the 15-year UN mission that introduced cholera to Haiti and a wave of sexual violence also provided stability for foreign extractivism and profiteering in tourism, agribusiness, textile, and mining sectors.
Mamyrah Dougé-Prosper and Mark Schuller
July 8, 2021

What can I do?

On 28 July 2021, we stand with the Haitian people, on the anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Haiti in 1915 that led to so much death and destruction, and whose effects are still being felt today, to demand that the UN, the US, and other imperialist powers keep their troops out of Haiti

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Some Additional Resources

Learn more about how “France extorted Haiti” after Haitians decided they should be free. An Article presented by Woy Magazine.

Since 2017, there have been more than a dozen massacres in Haiti, targeting mainly poor and working class communities. In April, the neighborhood of Bèlè suffered its third massacre in the span of two years, leaving many of its inhabitants assaulted, raped, killed, displaced and homeless.

Since he first took power, decrees increasingly consolidated power; Moïse labelled forms of street protests “terrorism” and created an intelligence agency last November. 

The unilateral plan to hold a constitutional referendum was twice postponed and currently scheduled for September 26. The referendum proposes amending the constitution to centralize power in the office of the president, reversing decentralization gains in Haiti’s 1987 constitution.

To strengthen his position, with the approval of the UN representative in Haiti, Helen Meagher La Lime, Moïse made alliances with gangs, who federated and terrorized residents of poor neighborhoods to quash opposition mobilizing. But because they were poor, their lives–and their deaths–did not matter to the powers that be, in Haiti, Washington, Paris, or Brussels.

You have probably heard that the opposition which includes, civil society, religious leaders, students, human rights organizations, the high courts (what’s left of them), parliament (what’s left of it), and organizers have declared Moise’s term as being over as of February 7th 2021, this according the constitutional calendar established by the Constitution of 1987.

What if instead of scrambling for news on Haiti and deciphering the real issues from the analyses and opinions of international Haiti experts, we supported the Haitian people’s efforts to tell their own stories and share their own dreams directly with us?