Haiti is before the eyes of the whole world. The United States, Canada, Europe and the countries of Latin America are watching with concern the events in this sister nation, and the expectation is that there will be an outcome in the next few hours. Speculation does not cease to occur, of all colors.
What everyone is waiting for is an action by the military forces of the United States, to free the hostages held in groups of 3 and 4, separately, the group known as 400 Mawazo. Haitians and Dominicans, and some intellectuals from Europe, in a letter addressed to President Joe Biden, have requested that the United States allow Haitians to face their own problems and leave them the option of self-determination. Haitian politicians and intellectuals strongly demand that option. It is a request that is rarely heard, because it is not accompanied by a proposal that addresses the problems of today, of the criminal and violent gangs ruling part of the Haitian territory. It is a proposal that idealizes the self-determination of the people, but does not visualize that the one who suffers the most from gang violence and the absence of the government is precisely the Haitian people. A town that does not have food, fuel, a justice system, electricity, does not have a Congress or a president either, since President Jovenel Moise was assassinated on July 7, and it is not known who murdered him, nor is it known whether or not there will be elections to replace it.
The outlook is dramatic. Haitians themselves consider that their country is unviable, that there is no way to reach an agreement. That political parties are useless and that their leaders have exhausted all possibilities to agree to an alliance with basic issues and move forward.
Haitians have always migrated. But now they are migrating far more than at any other time. There are no options for a quiet life, outside of violence. The option of Haitians is to leave. Many go to Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Chile, the Dominican Republic, and almost en masse to the United States.
The rich of Haiti, the eleven families that can sum up the wealth of that half island, chose to leave the country. Their fortunes are not in Haiti. They are in foreign companies and banks. Some have physically left and others have remained, well protected, waiting for a solution. Neither do they intervene. What could happen to Youri Mevs, a member of the family that owns the port of Port-au-Prince, who received a request from the boss of one of the criminals for $ 500,000 a month. Haiti now lacks the rich, as a group with the power to push for an agreement or a solution.
The kidnappings of priests and nuns have multiplied in this sense, Pope Francis speaks for them, as has just happened: “I am thinking of the population of Haiti, who live in extreme conditions. I ask the leaders of the nations to support this country, not to leave it alone. How much suffering, how much pain there is on this earth. #Pray together for Haiti, let’s not abandon them ”.
The situation is difficult to decipher. Letting Haitians “solve” their many problems is abandoning them. Intervening, seeking support from the international community, as requested by the Dominican president, is interpreted as a call for a military intervention, or an invasion.
Any option meets rejections and approvals. Meanwhile, the Dominican government has ordered the displacement of thousands of military personnel on the border with Haiti, in logical suspicion that something could happen in the next few hours.
The Haitian authorities say nothing. They appear to be with folded arms. They are likely to collaborate with the Americans who are trying to save 17 missionaries from kidnapped at top speed.
From Acento.
