Haiti needs to awaken: The Caribbean can end Haitians nightmare

BY STEVEN KASZAB

Haiti has said to be cursed. The curse was one of continual distortions of life and limb for the people of Haiti and the nation’s government. Colonial powers brought with them: disease, slavery, imposed corruption of the people and their future offspring.

Independence gave a promise of freedom, and a chance to establish them as a distinct people within the Caribbean. What Haitians got was merely the handoff of one master to another. Colonial powers passed Haiti onto the tyrants of the people. Strongmen with as strong a hunger for power as their former task masters.

Now Haitians begin their new year with a hope that the coming year will be better than the last. Of course Mother Nature presents Haiti with the horrors of earthquakes and hurricanes, along with draughts and the spread of disease. Large portions of the island remain uninhabitable, rubble lying where it had fallen long ago.

Lacking what is truly essential breeds fatalism, as promises from the world fall upon the people who see no real solutions to their daily situation of: hunger, lack of all things essential, unemployment and any foreseeable good future.

Fatalism breeds fear, hate, violence, greed and criminality. A battle for territory has developed among the 200 criminal gangs of Haiti. Innocents die, drug addiction is a major problem, and no one in the national government has a solution, or the ability to make the people’s lives better.

The world offered a solution, a cyclical historical pathway, where: Kenyan, French, EU and African nations would send troops to Haiti to bring about order and peace; these ideas coming from nations who are unable to handle their own national problems adequately. What is seen as a viable solution will be seen as the re-colonization of the island. The gangs will not go away, and their strategists (they have them) will realize that they can carry on their business, and also become saviours of the people by starting a guerrilla war with those who just arrived to save Haiti.

Impressions are everything to many people. Outside of a complete takeover of the government, what can the special force do to bring about peace? Only war and death will result in this situation. It is said that over half of all politicians in Haiti are in the pockets of either the leading seven families of Haiti, or the gangland thugs. Any money coming into Haiti will disappear soon enough. Haitian politicians and their bureaucrats have turned corruption into an art form.

Foreign Intervention will only result in giving the criminal world authenticity before the eyes of many people, leading to death and further destruction of the Island. Say no to the UN, EU, and Trans-African Alliance. So what to do then?

Haiti is located in the Caribbean, whose many neighbours can offer police, troops, security funding, infrastructure development, socio-educational and political proficiency to work towards a peaceful solution. Only the Caribbean can end Haiti’s nightmare. Only Caribbean nationals can fight and end Haiti’s criminal enterprises.

Haiti has never been a true democracy, so present day democracies like: Barbados, Bahamas’, Dominican Republic, Jamaica show the way. They have the wealth and abilities to accomplish true significant change. The combined force of the Caribbean can acquire the wealth needed to rebuild Haiti and themselves.

The Caribbean can rebuild Haiti; bring it into partnership with the Caribbean’s various organizations. Haiti can become a Caribbean ideal, the island that was brought back from the brink through partnership, sacrifice and direct investment by its neighbours and family, not foreigners with a selfish agenda!