As the 200th centenary of Haiti's liberty nears, the only state in the world founded all the way through a slave rebellion. A few may inspect the role the United States has played there, mostly presenting its assist programs as compassionate attempts to set up democracy and alleviate poverty. Others, more precisely, investigate U.S. labors in Haiti as stifling democracy and the people will next to with extracting every potential dollar.
At the same time as it is imperative to explain the blow that the United States, the world's lone superpower, has and has had on Haiti, we have got to note that Haiti, even though poor and inaccessible, has also had a chief impact on the United States.
To appreciate the character of the crisis trembling Haiti today, it is indispensable to recognize the class forces at play. The deterioration campaign against the Haitian administration is being led by the Bush faction of the U.S. bourgeoisie, which is arch-reactionary and hostile to regimes, which even pay lip service to a progressive agenda, as Aristide once did. Two conservative retreads from the previous Bush administration, Undersecretary of State for the Americas Otto Reich and Ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS) Roger Noriega, are spearheading the campaign to uproot Aristide, whom they charge is becoming an illegitimate president of a pariah state, even as other OAS states stand by wringing their hands at the plight of the besieged president.
In the meantime, the preponderance of the Haitian bourgeoisie, as represented by the Association of Industries of Haiti (ADIH), the Chamber of Commerce and of Industry of Haiti (CCIH) and, more internationally, the Civil Society Initiative (ISC), has associated itself with the armed forces of its age-old rival, the landed oligarchy or grandons, whose purest recent political manifestation was the.....
