Above Photo: A protest in Haiti. AP.
Calls for its Veto.
The Black Alliance for Peace emphatically opposes the Biden administration’s draft resolution to the United Nations Security Council to call for the immediate deployment of a “multinational rapid action force” to Haiti. We have specifically asked two permanent members of the Security Council – the representatives of the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation – to veto this resolution.
Western nations, led by the United States, and supported by Canada, the Dominican Republic, and the Caribbean Community, among others, are at the forefront of the push for another foreign military intervention in Haiti. Through a global public relations campaign, they are justifying invasion by pointing to a “humanitarian crisis” (including a new cholera outbreak) that has come about as a result of “gang violence.”
Yet by now, we should know that when it comes to Haiti, we cannot trust the words of Western politicians and the coverage of Western media. In the context of the current “crisis,” politicians and media have worked overtime to shape the discussion of Haiti by highlighting particular details – while ignoring important historical facts.
In the first instance, when calling for a military invasion of Haiti and promoting a narrative of crisis, the western media does not acknowledge that the current “government” in Haiti is unelected and unaccountable to Haitian people. It also fails to acknowledge that one core demand of the people is for authentic Haitian self-determination. Therefore, the last thing the Haitian people want is another “humanitarian” invasion and occupation by the US and the “Core Group.”
Second, rarely does the media mention that, along with the demand for self-determination, the nationwide protests of hundreds of thousands of Haitian people have also been against the massive economic distress caused by a sharp increase in the cost of living. This increase was a direct result of a major increase in the cost of fuel – an increase decreed by the puppet Prime Minister and dictated by the IMF.
Third, media coverage refuses to implicate the U.S., France, and Canada in the 2004 coup d’etat which removed the country’s popularly elected president, eventually leading to the current crisis.
Much of what we hear about Haiti today is a distortion – or outright fabrication – of Haiti’s social and political reality. Much of it lacks historical context, especially when it comes to the unrelenting meddling of the foreign agents and institutions, for understanding the Haitian situation. Much of it is based in a deep racism that presumes that Black people are ungovernable while resenting the implications of Haiti’s historical commitment to Black freedom.
As a response to distortions and deceptions surrounding Haiti, the Haiti/Americas Team of the Black Alliance for Peace has compiled a dossier of recent statements, essays, and articles which collectively demonstrate both the imperial origins of Haiti’s crisis and the racist justifications supporting it.
We want to be clear: The crisis of Haiti is a crisis of imperialism.
The Black Alliance for Peace, in alignment with the wishes of the Haitian masses and their supporters, absolutely stands against any foreign armed intervention in Haiti, and continues to demand an end to the unending meddling in Haitian affairs by the United States and Western powers.
Haiti/Americas Team of the Black Alliance for Peace
Articles:
“The Black Alliance for Peace Rejects the Calls for Foreign Intervention in Haiti and Demands that International Community Respect Haitian Sovereignty and the Wishes of the Haitian People for National Self-Determination”
https://blackallianceforpeace.com/bapstatements/nooascallforhaitiintervention
Open Letter to Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), on the need to Support Haitian Sovereignty
An Open Letter to His Excellency, Mr. Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), President of Mexico, on the Renewal of the UN Occupation of Haiti
https://blackallianceforpeace.com/movement-news/amloopenletter
Black Alliance for Peace Condemns Renewal of the UN Mission to Haiti (BINUH)
https://blackallianceforpeace.com/bapstatements/2022unmandaterenewal
Who Rules Haiti? Black Alliance for Peace Condemns Undermining of Haitian National Sovereignty
https://blackallianceforpeace.com/bapstatements/whoruleshaiti
What is the Core Group?
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t6RmBawvRCIY9VPYdv1ng_4fdEtor_zZp6njuzbBhlw/edit
What is the OAS?
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gYy1MkLVReCfTS6WqQN8r80f8vEipdyJmkcDRXbs6fU/edit
Haiti: On Interventions and Occupations
https://blackagendareport.com/haiti-interventions-and-occupations
The Empire’s Front Yard and the Monroe Doctrine
https://hoodcommunist.org/2022/06/02/the-empires-front-yard-and-the-monroe-doctrine/
The “Leftism” of the Americas Collapses at the Door of Haitian Sovereignty
https://www.blackagendareport.com/leftism-americas-collapses-door-haitian-sovereignty
Borders, Blackness, and Empire
https://blackagendareport.com/borders-blackness-and-empire
PROCLAMATION: LIBERTY OR DEATH, JEAN JACQUES DESSALINES, 1804
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
06 Oct 2021