After 16 years of existence, the Consulate of Haiti in Orlando inaugurated a center for research and information on Haiti in the heart of Florida, this Friday, February 25, 2022. “16 years later, the Consulate thinks it has enough maturity to dare to offer other things to the people of its community, alongside the usual services it offers every day,” explains Mr. Herwil Gaspard in his remarks. The Emile Saint-Lot Library is, above all, a resource and information center for researchers and students (Haitians and foreigners) wishing to learn more about Haiti, he added. And this explains why on its…
Author: Bernadin Jules
In Haiti, for a very long time, we have made ignorance, feigned or real, and bad faith into formidable, albeit ineffective, political weapons. As if we were legitimate or adopted children of the devil, even his epigones, we happily persist in our small and big mistakes. In the end, the days go by, the material conditions of existence deteriorate, social inequalities widen … Haiti is slowly dying! In our unique little country, no debate is closed, nothing is finished; It is the land of all crises, generated by men of all little daring, therefore men who are not themselves “finished”.…
Saturday January 1, 2022. In Gonaïves, a group of men armed to the teeth attacks the government delegation led by the Prime Minister, Ariel Henry, declared persona non grata in the City of Independence, because of his lack of legitimacy at the head of the Executive. On the first day of the year, one dead and several injured swelled the ranks of thousands of corpses and atrophies from the previous year. Sunday, January 2, 2022. At the bottom of Delmas, the armed gang led by the former policeman converted into a boss, Jimmy Chérisier alias Barbecue, takes on another gang…
In Haiti, the crises follow one another with an increasingly accelerated frequency. The respite times of fourteen years (François Duvalier) and sixteen years (Jean Claude Duvalier) give way to shorter intervals. They converge towards asymptotic limits of a few months of provisional governments; stops to breathe, with the hope of diluting social and political tensions capable of upsetting the precarious balances that give the illusion of “normal” functioning. Successive waves of financial crises or announcements – end of the 19th century, first part of the 80s, first decade of the 21st century and today – reveal the imbalances between failing…