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UNPARDONABLE HUMILIATION
blacks in 1803 dealt a tremendous beating Haitian troops of Napoleon Bonaparte, and Europe never forgave the humiliation inflicted on whites. Haiti was the first free country in the Americas. United States had conquered before independence, but had half a million slaves working on cotton plantations and snuff. Jefferson, who owned slaves, said that all men are equal, but also said that blacks have been, are and will be lower. The flag of the free rose over the ruins. Haitian land had been devastated by the monoculture of sugar and destroyed by the calamities of war against France, and a third of the population had fallen in battle. Then began the blockade. The fledgling nation was condemned to solitude. Nobody bought it, nobody sold, no one recognized her. [...] United States recognized Haiti just sixty years after the end of the war of independence, while Etienne Serres, a French genius of anatomy in Paris discovered that blacks are primitive because they have little distance between the navel and the penis. By then, Haiti was already in the hands of butchers military dictatorships, which allocate the resources of the country starved to pay the French debt: Europe had imposed on Haiti's obligation to pay huge compensation to France by way of forgiveness for having committed the crime of dignity. The history of harassment against Haiti, which today has the dimensions of tragedy, is also a story of racism in Western civilization.
Eduardo Galeano "The sins of Haiti" (January 15, 2010, http://www.argenpress.info/)
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Vadrot "Haiti: The earthquake affects a country being socially and environmentally destroyed for decades "(January 13, 2010, http://www.politis.fr/)
rub in Haiti two worlds, two ways of life, however articulated together in the dynamic functioning social system. The existence of one is explained by the presence of the other. However, for the first time, the excluded seek not only social inclusion but political. This claim, quite new in the political landscape, makes it extremely difficult transition. The two claims that cross this time, dignified man and change the rule, although used in a misleading way, carry a clear meaning. On the one hand, respect for human dignity and the right to citizenship for all and, on the other hand, the requirement of a political system where the rules of the game and the laws are respected and a new institutional framework that allows the realization a national project and encourage the participation of all social strata.
sectors of the bourgeoisie and the traditional political class they fall short of mutations that are taking place within society. In this context of a permanent and almost unanimous response, containment methods, co-optation domain and even repression of the ruling elite lose their effectiveness. Meet the demands of these new collective actors, the political regime is weakened and laid bare his inability to govern, to respond to the demands of participation and welfare of the population, and to maintain social cohesion and its own legitimacy.
The strong polarization of this phase which arises from the contradictions and confrontations that have shaken this society of deprivation is characterized by extremely acute political struggle that continues to be peaceful and marked by the priority of the political. However, countless political assassinations or collective nature, the constant displacement population, mass migration of people or professionals boat explain the vast social polarization that characterizes the country.
The archaic system and the state's inability to fulfill their national roles encouraging a more and more evident, the search for a solution to a total crisis. This, precisely because of its historical-structural and degree of maturity, makes any attempt at reorganization. In fact, there is, first, the difficult socio-economic renewal and political system by the old oligarchy and the very recent political class. On the other hand, despite the renewed social struggle, with no noticeable progress and setbacks less significant, the social movement, powerful in its essence but weak organizationally and in its manifestations, without resources, without the engine of political parties and groups structured civil society, yet fails to make the move to a new structure able to provide a solution. No social or political sector goes even to consolidate economic and political leadership capable of carrying out a national project or even to resolve the question of hegemony.
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