By Pierre Robert Auguste
To understand the terribly worsened situation in our country, it is essential not to lose sight of the fact that for more than 20 years, the former slave-owning powers such as the United States of America, France, Spain, as well as a state in search of international power, Canada, have decided that another UN member state, Haiti, born fundamentally anti-slavery, should no longer be able to govern itself. They decided that it should now be run by a hybrid stand-in entity they formed as the Core Group, a transnational government that is as illegitimate as it is indecent and cynical. The foundation of this dominant government is based on the theory of insignificance.
According to this theory, the Haitian national state is no longer worth anything. Haitian identity is disembodied, like a zombie without a master. It is up to us, the Core Group, to save them, to bring them out of the darkness and guide them into the light.
The theory of insignificance always requires justification. There must be darkness (multiplication and supply of gangs to maintain instability). The incapacity and insufficiency must be manifest, as must the incomplete governance (case of Ariel Henri). The indifference to national opinion, the contempt for the dignity of the Haitian people (maintenance of the government of Ariel Henri against the general will), the blocking and conditionality of certain strategic appointments with transnational approval (the state- major of the PNH, the Secretary of State for Security), as well as economic follow-up against any autonomous initiative contrary to the injunctions of the IMF and the World Bank.
Consequently, the national interest must be subordinated to the injunctions of the Core Group (tweet from Ms. Laline transferring the direction of the Prime Minister to Ariel, reducing and permuting the rank of Claude Joseph).
This theory of insignificance is applied in Haiti in defiance of international law. It violates a people, a member of a State itself a member of the UN, whose founding principles state “the recognition of the inherent dignity of all members of the human family and of their equal and inalienable rights to freedom, justice and peace, guaranteeing to all peoples the right to self-determination.
By virtue of this right, they freely determine their political status and freely ensure their economic, social and cultural development. It was these enshrined rights that inspired, after the Second World War in 1945, the dream of a civilized international society.
This dream is collapsing in Haiti under the yoke of the Core Group. It is a flouted society that the great powers seek to replace under the empire of force and unequal, discriminatory and hypocritically racist subjugation. I will endeavor to demonstrate in one of my books the harm and absurdity of this theory of insignificance. Too much human suffering does not justify this unbridled pride in wanting to impose another eccentric constitution.
Gonaïves, February 17, 2024
Pierre Robert Auguste
