DEMOCRACY / DICTATORSHIP...
WHICH WAY TO GO?
What is killing Haiti is the "DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM " that some politicians want to impose to the people that are not prepared for such a challenge.
It is about time for the Haitian people to fight against injustice perpetrated by some individuals Pro-Coalition who are against progress in Haiti.
It is time for the majority of Haitians who put their votes together to choose their President to show their support to defend their will.
It is time to sweep out all the refuses of the country and bring Haiti together around one man one political System just like any civilized Country.
United States have one System with two faces. One bird, an eagle with two wings.
The Republican Party and the Democratic Party. All the other Political Parties: The labor Party, The Communist Party, The Socialist Party, The Independent Party, etc., hold on to one feather in the tail end of the Bird. The American politicians, (no matter to which wing they belongs, have a common goal and their supporters join them to obtain that goal.
They support their Government for the interest of their Country.
England has only one System: the Monarchy. You like it or not, You pay your taxes.
Russia has one Political System as well as China. They are all progressing because of the support from their citizens.
Cuba now has one political System since 1958, now it is the most powerful country in the Caribbean. We should all join our leaders and stop criticizing their mistakes. The former leaders have done the worst.
If it was one political party against Lavallas, *the two parties would seat down and discuss their differences. With ten, twenty Political parties, The Government will never be able to satisfy the desire of all these hungry politicians...
Opinion
Multiple-party Political system cannot work in poor and underdeveloping countries. It is not hard to understand why elections in many States of Africa, Central America and the Caribbean have always been an unsolved problem.
Cuba, Libya for instance prove that a progressive dictator can do better for his Country than a Democratic structure where Politicians are always fighting for Power.
Cuba is now the most a powerful and the most powerful Country in the Caribbean Islands: militarily and economically.
Do not try to compare Haiti to an already developed Country like US, France for instance.
Look at the Poor Countries ... How some underdeveloping Countries got out of poverty and continuing their path to progress. Our background, our culture should not represent a barrier to us for a common goal.
Since 1958, Cuba has demonstrated his leadership in Agriculture, Health, Education and all other social Services compare to Haiti in its two hundred years of independence, still depends on help from other Countries to feed its poor and ignorant people with a barely 10% educated. One Hospital per million in Port-au-Prince none in the suburb areas. No infrastructure, not even potable water in the Capitale. No hope of a near economic or industrial development. The opposition members are a bunch of traitors who are eager and at any cost would like to get to the Haitian treasure to satisfy their ego by transferring the national fund to their private account in Foreign Countries, to punish the working people that is now in power.
Poor Countries Deserve more attention than Politicians fighting over power and forgetting the real reason of their struggle: The Nation.
The Haitian people have been suffering for so many years, They are used to American embargoes, it is a shame. Poverty is a part of their everyday life. Now they need a strong President who will not bow to foreign Governments, will not beg for money or favors in exchange to the Nation's pride, who can defend our freedom and our land. I believe Aristide can be a progressive and modest President just like the former President Dumarsais Estime in 1946 if they give him a chance...... If the attacks continue to disturb the peace in that Country, the Government will have to eliminate the hateful opponents 1) by creating a strong Police Force with volunteered young men to protect and defend the citizens of the Nation 2) By creating a secret service to follow every move of these political clowns.
For many Haitians who seem to forget the history of their country, I like to bring a little summary of our past.
The Haitian people came from different parts of Africa specially from the West or other parts of the Continent. They were selected from different tribes. As much as they like their voodoo cult they also like to quarrel. Their view sometimes are not necessarily right but they do not like to concede and accept their defeat. That is the problem between the Governments and their opponents. It is a constant struggle, started from our independence.
On September 22, 1804 , Dessalines became Emperor of Haiti. He only spent two years in power, assassinated by hungry opponents for power and wealth in October 17, 1806.
That is our continuing train up to these days 200 years later.
On July 1915, The United States used the assassination of our president Vilbrun G. Sam to find a pretext to invade our Country. The U.S.Marines had no regard for Haitian life since the constitution of their States, at that time, had no provision for Black People, many prominent Haitian educators, writers and lawyers have lost their lives.
In November 1919, one of our Heroes, Charlemagne Peralte, was killed for defending the cause of our freedom.
August 12.1915 The US named Sudre Dartiguenave, a mulatto, as President. He came with all laws in favor of the occupation. He was a real puppet. Dartiguenave spent seven years in power.
May 15, 1922, came Louis Borno another puppet mulatto, elected by a so called Conseil d' Etat.
December 1929 the marines went on rampage Aux Cayes (affaire Marchaterre) killed as many as six and wounded as many as one hundred.
Louis Borno spent eight years in power.
In April 1929, Borno turned over the power to Louis-Eugene Roy (mulatto)
to prepare a so called elections for the next President.
In 1930, Vincent (mulatto) took over the power for eleven years.
All those governments were controlled by the US presence in Haiti.
In 1941 Vincent turned the power over to E. Lescot who only spent four years because the Marines had left and the Government had not enough protection against the fierce opponents.
Before leaving the Country, the marines had prepared an army that I believe was not intended to protect the constitution and the Government of Haiti but to work as a hand to American intelligence, to keep close contact on Haiti's political machine, to create a source of information to their embassy in Port-au-Prince and also can be used as a hand for coup d'etat against our popular presidents.
The first president after Lescot was kidnapped by the army in 1950 and a military
junta took over with Colonels F. Laved, A. Level and Paul Maggiore. The same Army kidnapped D. Fignole, a very popular Candidate to make room to the notorious Duvalier.
Francois Duvalier was not a popular Candidate but he was so called
(Official Candidate) meaning : He was supported By U.S. and backed up by the Haitian Army. From that point he owed his faith to the military Generals and to the
U.S .
Duvalier was a self-centered man, lacked of self esteem, an egomaniac who had the power and money to move the Country ahead.
It is time to support our elected officials and support a positive goal for our country.
Haiti does not need an army but a 20,000 to 30,000 young men police force (Between 18 and 25 years old) to report to the regional governments (magistrat, Prefet) , they themselves will report to the secretary of justice or national security and oversee by the President and the Congress.
We need a military force, not the kind we had before.
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This is just my comment as you go on writing your articles.
As much as I admire the state in making, I hate to foresee what the other
statesman think in retrospect. You are working to build a state, for everyone, include you're your enemies and friends.
The State building hence must be done with a strong and open heart to accept
the consequences of your own energy. The energy you put to make a thing happen is same energy that will work against you, remember the laws of physics. In as much as you think in a positive way there are people with negative ideas. When this happens you have entered Developing Nations Political Arena.
The worst of it all is when they fail to match your ideas, they attack you personally. They will go all the way to try and put an end to all you have started or created. The only easy way they have is threatening to take your life. Once defeated with clear facts they resort to outside evil forces,
which come with a blinkers aimed to retard all the political progress attained, with an agenda to maintain their Political superiority which will protect their economy. Thus the poor people a struggle will remain loyal and subject to foreign economic and political domination and influence. This means that the country's political and economic freedom has been robed or traded for a foreign support.
A country will not achieved a clear economic growth if means to economic empowerment is foreign controlled. It means foreign power will determine how much growth you need. Foreign power will try protecting their interests, mainly cheap labor, cheap raw materials, and cheap infrastructure. Very few foreign powers that have political control in a country support huge foreign
investment that will initiate other related economic expansion.
A country is only a country if it can stand on its own foot and determine its own pace within the full spectrum of international community, without hands or shoulder leaning on another country. This will mark the first international freedom all country's have to determine their future.
International or foreign help is accepted in every country as long as it is controlled by the host country not the foreign agency.
If our politics can be mature to go beyond individual egocentric then this gap of personalizing the situations in most political troubled Nations will
erode away.
Nation build is not about personal wants or needs but country and people needs. Politics is based on communalism, for the community yet most supported economic principal is on individualism (Capitalism. This brings politics and its players in to disarray.
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