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materials on Haiti Le Monde Diplo

http://www.monde-diplomatique.es/isum/

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/)


a deteriorating environment

[...]
Traveling aboard one of the planes that connect Santo Domingo to Port au Prince, Haiti's capital, is idle for the pilot announced the border: to understand that it starts to fly over the Haitian landscape, just realize the time when the trees disappear abruptly. Within minutes, Haiti offers little else than a succession of bare hills, this part of the island than just the size of Belgium and add 8 million people and was once known as the "pearl of the Antilles" is seen from the air like a lunar world crisscrossed by channels lacking water when rains.
The sorry state of half of the former English is added to the number of misfortunes, the thousands of dead, thousands of exiles generated by Duvalier, dictator dictator father and son. We did Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the priest secularized before being deposed, came to collect his lawyer and wife for nearly $ 850 million personal fortune, no doubt "his poor" City of the Sun, which brought him to power in 80's. Haiti has one of the most degraded environments in the Americas: one of the few states in the world where the country's history was completely confused, and continued, with the degradation of nature and the environment, because the successors of Stooges and dictators have done better. [...] Every year, more and more devastating rains because of climate changes which increase the violence of hurricanes and cyclones are precipitated on a surface longer able to retain land. Transported land and stop even in the plains, and gain the shore: Each year, between 37 and 40 million tons of soil will occur in the sea, and only 10% of rainwater penetrates the soil. The rest runs quickly on a hardened soil unable to retain that any vegetation. Multiple consequences: the irremediable alteration of the microclimate of the island, the vital groundwater August, 400 missing or rivers or streams that flow only a few weeks a year. As in the case of firewood, a pseudopolíticas hostilities against each other farmers and farmers with large landowners for control of water which exists: they form gangs that kill for control of a simple irrigation canal. This progressive drought has reached an alarming level in the second half of the 90, bringing to the disappearance of abundant freshwater fish were the staple of many people. In the plain of Arbonite, north risicultores themselves no longer have enough water for their rice crops. A paradox for a country where it rains a lot during the course most of the year. And year after year risicultores disappear, because the U.S. exported 250,000 tons of rice Haiti U.S. publicly subsidized, and therefore less expensive than local rice is purchased in markets. Each year, thousands of people lose their lives because of the floods that transform the child pending in a raging torrent. Dozens of times a year a small wind that lasts half an hour just to Port au Prince, surrounded by hills, invaded look from the heights of the capital by tons of debris that accumulate on the streets of down town, where the poorest live. In Sun City, the most miserable seaside suburb, the stronghold from which Aristide launched his career as a priest and then as political, population density is 10 persons per square meter, some families go so far as to take turns sleeping in the slums one of two hurricanes destroyed or flooded.
[...] Marie Claude
Vadrot "Haiti: The earthquake affects a country being socially and environmentally destroyed for decades "(January 13, 2010, http://www.politis.fr/)

EXCLUDED CLAIM YOUR PARTICIPATION


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.
Suzy Castor "The Haitian transition: from the dangers and hope." NPO Journal Year VIII, No. 23, April 2008 (Buenos Aires, CLACSO).

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