Haiti's collapse was caused by the U.S and we're now making it worse

Roughly 13 months ago, Haitian President Jovenel Moise was assassinated. Because he had conspired to stay in the office long after his term had expired, and because he had denied a scheduled election from happening, very little of an elected government existed already.
That was when things got dramatically worse.

The man in charge of organizing the assassination squad, according to Haitian authorities, was a former Haitian anti-corruption official named Joseph Felix Badio, who was on the run.

But on that early September night, those undercover officers thought they knew exactly where Badio would be: at a meeting with Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry, inside his official residence in the capital.
A confidential informant had told the officers that Henry would meet with Badio that night. Since the assassination, the pair had already met twice in-person, according to investigators.

PM Henry had only been appointed by Moise days before and hadn't even had a chance to take office yet before he had Moise killed.
Gangs were already taking control of Haiti before Moise was killed, but it's gotten so much worse.

Gang violence has skyrocketed in recent days in Haiti’s capital city of Port-au-Prince, with 52 people reported dead and 110 injured in the neighborhood of Cité Soliel. Food insecurity has also become a grave issue as gangs have blocked roads and ports for food shipments. According to the United Nations World Food Program, 4.4 million people, nearly half of the population of Haiti, are in need of immediate food assistance. It has been reported that gangs have also cut off access to roads, blocking local farmers from selling their produce and preventing food shipments. Inflation is reaching 26 percent in general and 52 percent for food, is further exacerbating food insecurity.

Last year 19,000 Haitians were to flee their homes due to gang violence. Kidnappings are rampant and indiscriminate.
Increasingly the police and even the army are losing against the power of gangs. Armed gang members even took over the Port-au-Prince Palace of Justice building.

How has the U.S. responded to this tragedy? By pouring gasoline on this fire.

As Haiti sinks ever-deeper into pandemonium, with much of the capital seized by gunfire and gang warfare, it has received recent deliveries from the United States of two commodities that can only contribute to its meltdown: weapons and deportees. Those exports — one smuggled, the other overt — are the latest symptom of the world’s callous disregard and moral myopia regarding the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country. Haiti has no functional government, no democracy, no peace, no hope. And the international community’s response is silence.

Last month a shipping container labeled as church donations holding 18 "weapons of war," four handguns and nearly 15,000 rounds of ammunition that were shipped from the United States to the Episcopal Church of Haiti.
There was in 2019 estimated that there were some 500,000 illegal weapons in Haiti.
Meanwhile, President Biden, with an unusual form of "open borders", has deported more than 26,000 Haitians from the United States between September 2021 and June 2022. About a fifth of the deportees have been children; hundreds were infants under the age of 2.
In the face of this disaster, the U.N. has agreed to release just $5 million in aid. $5 million dollars for a nation of 11 million. You can do the math.
Meanwhile the West has given Ukraine, a nation of 44 million, tens of billions of dollars in aid.

But this was all caused by Haitians, right?
The assassination of Moise was merely the last event in the United States' ruination of this tiny country.

The undercover work of former U.S. government informants suspected of plotting to kill Haiti’s president has compelled Miami federal prosecutors to seal off evidence about their past activities in the interest of U.S. national security, saying the information is classified and cannot be turned over to the defense in the widening investigation, the Miami Herald reported.

Two weeks ago the U.S.-led Organization of America States (OAS) finally admitted it's culpability in destroying Haiti.

“The institutional crisis that Haiti is experiencing right now is a direct result of the actions taken by the country’s endogenous forces and by the international community,” reads the first paragraph of the statement from the organization’s General Secretariat. Then, dropping the idea of those “endogenous forces” entirely, here’s the second paragraph: “The last 20 years of the international community’s presence in Haiti has amounted to one of the worst and clearest failures implemented and executed within the framework of any international cooperation.”

Throughout Haiti's history, France and the U.S. have never failed to undermined Haitian society, both politically and economically.

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Sima's picture

But I wanted to say thank you for this. Your summary contains a lot of info I didn't know, and am embarrassed and appalled about. Weapons as church donations? Starvation? Inflation of 52% for food? Gads.

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janis b's picture

in Haiti and in America.

Thank you for the information.

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