27493: Evens: (reply) Fwd: Re: 27374: Lemieux: news: Dispatches from the World Social Forum by the Canada Haiti Action Network delegation (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From Ralph Evens (ralph3892@yahoo.com)

  Re: 27374: Lemieux: news: Dispatches from the World Social Forum by the
Canada
Haiti Action Network delegation (fwd)

  (*** I'm sending this post again, because it doesn't seem to have gone
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the first time, a few days ago.)

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  I just read the message on the CHAN delegation to the Caracas Social Forum.
It
reminds me of Kim Ives? posts that I?ve read on this and other lists.
The problem I have with these people is that they want to pass the Lavalas
government as a ?popular? administration, even comparing it with those of
Castro or Chavez. This is an enormous mystification, in fact one that is
exactly the same as those of the Aristide administration: fooling the people
while serving the bourgeois. Because in fact there are important questions,
fundamental ones, people should be asking:
1 ? Who came for the first time to Haiti with 20,000 soldier occupation troops
in 1994-1995? Who? Who, in 2003, signed his agreement for the 822 UN Resolution
asking for the present occupation? Who? It?s simply Aristide himself. What
happened is that, with the imperialists, it turned out wrong for him.
Both Castro and Chavez would never commit such actions. It is a dishonor for
them, it is marring their names to compare such a traitor, such an imposter,
with such integrate persons who always not only fight the imperialists but also
denounce it each time they can.
2 ? The 1994-1995 invasion cost the US administration millions and millions of
dollars to come reinstall their puppet in power. Who is talking of financing??!
Furthermore, the Lavalas government turned the training of the new police force
over to the US, French and Canadian imperialist governments: what could be more
submissive, subservient, lackey? And the truth is that since then the Haitian
people never heard again of ?malfini? ?falcons nor any other anti-imperialist
criticism.
3 ? The World Bank and IMF programs were executed without the slightest
hesitation under Aristide: what a brilliant application of the Haitian adage
Aristide loved to repeat in electoral meetings, that, for him, the new economy
would be self-sufficient, based on the nation?s own means, that the ?pork?s
lard would cook its own meat?!!!
4- And what about Aristide?s famous ?I love you, bourgeois?! he said in Miami,
while hugging the most corrupt, nefarious elements of the Haitian bourgeoisie.
After having surrendered himself, all the Haitian people, all the history of
this so proud country to the imperialists, he now surrendered them all to the
Haitian bourgeoisie, one of the most archaic in the world, one of the most
?repugnant? in the world. .
5 - ?I love you, bourgeois?, a huge leap towards reconciliation. Who asked
himself where all the FRAPH ?attachés? (criminal militia of the
macoute-bourgeois reaction during the 1991-1994 coup) went? Who asked himself
how this reintegration happened? The answer is simple. Under the regime of
reconciliation with the biggest bourgeois and macoutes, under the control and
complete surrender to the imperialists, in military, political and economic
terms, the FRAPH attachés changed into the Lavalas gangs. That?s what
reconciliation was in the popular neighborhoods. And that was one of the most
cowardly decisions Aristide took, since, while he refused to return in the
presence of his foremost military and paramilitary enemies (General Cedras and
the major FRAPH leaders), he submitted his partisans in the popular
neighborhoods to this very demand, he submitted these partisans who nearly died
for him to living with these ferocious enemies.
6 - ?I love you, bourgeois? and the surrender of the Haitian people to the
attaches transformed into Lavalas, for them, all of them, to come make money in
the government and, as the climbers they were, to change into bourgeois, just
as the Duvalierists had done so. Yes, indeed, who would, then, become the
President of the Commission for the Economy?s Relaunching? Jean-Edouard BAKER,
a foremost sweatshop owner, president of the private business sector?s
association (ADIH) and, above all, who had sold the blood of Haitians abroad,
in a partnership he held with Luckner Cambronne, one of the most prominent
figures of Duvalierism. Jean-Edouard Baker, the brother of the present
electoral candidate, Charles Henry Baker.
7- Jean-Edouard Baker, like Lilas Desquiron (Aristide?s Minister of Culture who
just recently again wrote in his defense - and her own!), like Mathilde
Flambert, one of the most reactionary factory owners who was named Aristide?s
Minister of Social Affairs and Labor, in charge of class conflicts, and even
Marc Bazin, the ?Chicago Boy? who is right now the Lavalas ?Table?s? candidate!
Even Bayard Vincent, since the early Lavalas days, a ?macoute gwo ble? (meaning
one of the most active Duvalierists) who was named Minister of JUSTICE!
8 ? Without counting the permanent stealing of these ?grand mangeurs?
(big-eaters), the scandals (rice, aluminum roofing, ?pyramid? cooperatives?).
9 ? When the imperialists finish using a puppet, when social problems become
overwhelming, when the inability to resolve the situations goes overboard? they
simply take it out. That?s exactly what happened to Jean-Claude Duvalier who
wished to remain as well, ?rèd tankou ke makak? (stiff as a monkey?s tail).
That?s all.
10 ? The question now is what Haiti Progres, the Canadian reporters and this
whole group who say they?re in defense of the Haitian people are really looking
after, in their attempts to confuse everybody in mixing up the peoples? real
struggles with those of the Lavalas socially upwards ? These are all now
participating in the slated elections (under occupation). And those who aren?t,
like Jean-Juste who represents a last branch of them, if he isn?t, it isn?t
because they didn?t wish so.

Ralph



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