10 February, 2010 — Black Agenda Report
The world’s sole superpower behaves as if Haitian sovereignty no longer exists. Notions of legality are wholly absent in America’s occupation of Haiti, where the U.S. poses as the internationally recognized authority. Washington arrogantly improvises the terms of the Haitian ‘protectorate.’
‘The Haitian people ‘need democracy and self determination, said the U.S.-based Black is Back Coalition.’
Proud Haiti has been reduced to a de facto ‘protectorate’ of the United States – a grotesque form of non-sovereignty in which the subjugated nation is ‘protected’ by its worst enemy. Namibia under white-ruled South African administration comes to mind, although in Haiti’s case the United Nations does not even pretend to be on the side of the oppressed, acting instead as agent and enforcer for the superpower.
As Haiti writhes under the agony of hundreds of thousands dead, Bill Clinton picks through the bones in search of prime tourist spots and mango plantation sites. America’s most successful snake oil salesman is pleased to do the Haitian people’s thinking, planning and dreaming for them – and quite willing to speak for the afflicted country, as well. ‘This is an opportunity to reimagine the future for the Haitian people, to build what they want to become, not rebuild what they used to be,” Clinton told the global oligarchs at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
In one sweeping sentence, Clinton claimed a kind of sovereignty over the Haitian people’s very imaginations, assigning himself the right to filter what was good or bad about Haiti’s past, and what is permissible in the future. Haitians are no longer allowed to possess their own dreams and remembrances, which have apparently been placed in United Nations trusteeship, under control of UN special envoy to Haiti, Bill Clinton.
The team is made up of five Cubans, from Camagüey, Las Tunas, Matanzas and Havana, and since they arrived in Haiti, they have forgotten the fact that they come from different provinces, or that they have different specializations, or even their baseball rivalries. They are like the “five musketeers” as they set up the hospital. At the count of three, and with the help of the doctors, they carry heavy boxes, install electrical networks and put together the tiny screws and pieces of medical equipment as if it were a complicated jigsaw puzzle. That is when the hefty Osmín Camero, who has just carried a heavy load, says he could use the hands of a woman. Even so, not one screw escapes him, and he ends up putting together the monitor for the intensive care unit with incredible dexterity.
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