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PEACE on EARTH

Peace, Paix, Lapè, Paz, Kyuui, Anjuu, Vrede, Mir, Pace, Fred, Pokoy, Rauha, Beke, Shalom.

Bonjour Miami, ses alentours et les "internôtres" qui écoutent à travers le monde. CHAQUE JOUR EST À LUI SEUL UNE VIE. Dieu, le travail et la liberté. Et bonjour, bonjour la vie, bonjour l’amour, pourquoi pas? Moi’j vais bien et’j m’habitue.

L’homme porte en lui la semence de tout bonheur et de tout malheur. (Sophocle, poète tragique grec.)

Les beaux souvenirs sont du bonheur en réserve. Nous pouvons les faire ressortir de notre mémoire aussi souvent que nous le désirons sans jamais épuiser le bonheur qu’ils contiennent. Quelques fois, il s’agit de penser à un souvenir heureux pour qu’il nous arrache un sourire au milieu d’une journée morne. Les beaux souvenirs peuvent nous aider à créer un présent plus beau, surtout s’ils nous rappellent que nous avons déja cru en nos rêves et que nous pouvons encore y croire. (Hervé Desbois)

LES MAUVAIS SOUVENIRS… QUE DE DÉCEPTIONS! ET QUELLE EXPÉRIENCE!

Bulletin de l’ "Union Patriotique Haiienne," Année 1961, New York, New York.

L’UNION PATRIOTIQUE DE LA JEUNESSE HAITIENNE présente ses sympathies à leurs Excellences Monseigneur Francois Poirier et Monseigneur Rémy Augustin, ainsi qu’aux autres prêtres brutalement et injustement expulsés d’Haiti par les forces de l’obscurantisme du Gouvernement de Monsieur Duvalier.

L’UNION PATRIOTIQUE DE LA JEUNESSE HAITIENNE présente ses condoléances à la famille Max Vieux à l’occasion de la mort tragique de leur fils Maxime.

L’UNION PATRIOTIQUE DE LA JEUNESSE HAITIENNE compâtit à la douleur des familles Zéphirin, Leconte, et Magloire, si cruellement éprouvées par la mort de leur regretté frère, beau-frère, et époux, l’ex-ambassadeur Mauclair Zéphirin.

POÈME "IDÉAL," BULLETIN DE L’UNION PATRIOTIQUE DE LA JEUNESSE HAITIENNE (Par Paul Dumarsais Toussaint, décédé en Floride le 22 Décembre 2004, dont l’enterrement aura lieu mercredi 29 Décembre 2004, à 10 heures du matin.)

Nous ne voulons pas, nous autres,

avec les mêmes mots et de nouveaux hommes

retomber dans la même "histoire…"

Nous ne voulons pas, nous,autres,

avec de nouveaux motifs de lutte,

avec de nouveaux idéaux,

violer les droits d’asile,

supprimer les Libertés ouvrières,

assassiner les hommes, les femmes, et les enfants…

Nous ne voulons pas, nous autres,

avec une nouvelle foi

une nouvelle ardeur,

trahir la confiance populaire,

souiller l’honneur national,

inonder le Pays haitien,

empoisonner les ondes, et la presse internationale

de mensonges et d’abjections.

Nous ne voulons pas, nous autres,

avec une doctrine politique

nous jeter dans les absurdités sociologiques,

nager dans les utopies,

et abandoner le terrain scientifique.

Oh! Non.

Nous ne souhaitons pas la victoire

pour nous ériger en bureaucrates triomphants

qui se seraient glorieusement battus

pour la beauté d’un costume,

le vernis d’un blazon,

la conquête des femmes

les jouissances immédiates, frivoles et passagères.

Oh Non, mille fois Non !

Nous ne voulons pas enliser l’avenir d’un peuple

dans les compromissions de clan.

Car, ce que nous voulons, nous autres,

avec les mêmes mots, mais des hommes nouveaux,

notre ardeur,

notre patriotisme,

ce que nous souhaitons

avec la victoire…

C’est de convertir ce petit monde exploiteur et tyrannique

en un merveilleux royaume de Fraternité

où tous les fils d’une même Patrie

élèvent en un choeur bien rythmé,

leurs témoignages au-dessus du monde,

faisant du mot d’amour,

de ce cri d’allégresse

de cette mélodie ineffable,

un grandiose Péan,

projeté cers la terre et les cieux

par le souffle puissant de toutes les voix réunies.

(Paul Dumarsais Toussaint, Bulletin de l’ "Union Patriotique de la Jeunesse Haitienne," Année 1961, New York, N.Y.)

One's true happiness depends more upon one's own judgment of one's self, on a consciousness of rectitude in action and intention, and in the approbation of those few who judge impartially, than upon the applause of the unthinking undiscerning multitude, who are apt to cry Hosanna today, and tomorrow, Crucify him.

n Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American Statesman and Scientist

IN KEY BISCAYNE LAST NIGHT WE HAD THE PLEASURE, RACHEL DENIS AND I, of being guests at Cristina Figueredo’s wonderful display of paintings, relating to the Cuba of the 1950’s, at the Art Show and Cocktail Reception in the Gardens of Key Biscayne.

Cristina is the daughter of Fernando Figueredo former executive with AOL and the well known real estate representative for the past 30 years in Key Biscayne, Celia Figueredo. Wonderful artwork and my pleasure was to meet Rosa Noriega, author of the novel "Los Jinetes y los Vericuetos." Her book on the Cuba of the 1950’s was prominently displayed in the Spanish language; she will have an English translation of it in the near future. A good time was had by all in this inspiring location on the beach.

Thank you Ralph. The pleasure is mine. Best wishes.

Dear Carl,

You are cordially invited to participate in the Haitian Art and the Making of History, December 29, 2004 from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. Broward County Main Library, 100 S. Andrews Ave., Ft. Lauderdale, Fl.

A program closing the celebration of the Bicentennial of the Haitian Revolution and launching of the Catalog on the Work of Hërza Barjon.

Dr. Gérard Ferère

Dr. Claudine Michel

Dr. Wolley Henriquez

Paulette Poujol Oriol

For Information, call 954-357-7478

Signed: Hervé Fanini-Lemoine

YOU REALLY ENJOY "LE COIN DE CARL" WITH ALL YOUR ZEST, CUTS AND SOUL. AND WE WISH TO THANK YOU FOR ALL THE DELIGHTS YOU PUT IN OUR LIFE FOR THE YEAR......YOU HAVE MADE YOURSELF UNFORGETABLE IN OUR MIND, OUR HEART AND SPIRIT.

"Let there be peace on earth

And let it begin with me

Let there be peace on earth

The peace that was meant to be

Let peace begin with me

Let this be the moment now

With every step I take

Let this be my solemn vow

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To take each moment and live

each moment in peace eternally

Let there be peace on earth

and let it begin with me"

TO: Carl Fombrun.

At this time of the year, I want to take the opportunity to wish everybody connected with me in any form or fashion the best of the best for the coming year. I know and understand that through the past year, we all have had more tribulation than festivity, but I also feel that this year we can reestablish control over our destiny by not giving into the temptation to continue on with the status quo.

We cannot continue to believe that the system will take care of us as obviously, it hasn't. I would like for everyone to take a look at their existence from a "then to now" perspective and compare. Is the trend the one you are willing to accept? Are you going to die like a man/woman, or are you going to stand down and be annihilated in the most polite of manners while the world government continues to make fools out of you by pretending to be different governments functioning independently of one another?

The number 11 is curiously linked to too many international events not to have major significance. I would like for this year to be a year of awakening. We might not all make it out of this alive, but then death is promised to everyone. The time itself is, by us, as yet undetermined. The comfortable existence we've had while sucking our tongues at the misfortune of the planet's poor. Even wanting to contribute to their well-being, we have been overly passive because we have been overly pacified.

We continue to want to be pacified because that has become our comfort zone. We recognize ourselves in the trust we have so misguidedly placed in our authorities. We have been suckered into believing that our best interests were/are being represented. Well, now we can clearly distinguish our wishful thinking from the reality of our existence. It is like a cesspool winding our good fortune down into the depths of its foulness, giving us the illusion that it is unstoppable. It is only unstoppable if we allow it to be. They count on the fact that we as a planetary community will be lulled into thinking that even if we want to make a difference, we won't be able to. That is not true at all.

Truth is that we have had to accept in order to make it possible for us to be dominated. How have we accepted? We have accepted by acquiescing to wrong doing and normalizing it(this includes myself), albeit most of us have retained the option of choosing to what extent we would allow this wrongdoing. But in the end, wrongdoing is still just that...and can only open the door to the Pandora's box in which we now live-Earth. We have told ourselves that agriculture was unimportant, but structural property was. We have allowed our riches to be consolidated into the arts and through them the world of speculation has found an avenue of approach for the elimination of personal and collective riches.

This has occurred because the exclusivity germane to this pseudo world of reality has placed most people outside of the sphere of actual personal participation and benefit while not ceiling the prices of the "cultural" world's allure. Many have been those who would sacrifice themselves for the cultural aspects of their society to be symbolized through themselves.

This manifestation of the "me" represents the penultimate selfishness our society has grown accustomed to propagating as society beneficial...which translates to illusion once again as the well-being of the few cannot ever be more beneficial to society than the well-being of the masses. It is erroneous and immoral to allow the manipulation of those masses so as to represent their social inability as the true cause for the erosion of society without pointing the finger at the true perpetrators all the while identifying their true intentions. If the job remains more important than the truth, something is wrong.

If the ability to be present at certain social functions outweighs the necessity to be socially responsible, then we are in the wrong game. If we are now unable to collectively say no to war on this planet, we are no longer in charge of our destiny. Government by representation is an illusion which has been justified by the utilization of disinformation and poor substitute systems for a system which can ensure our survival as a species. The object of the system in place is obviously contrary to that objective, and therefore leads to questioning its roots, authors and intentions.

We cannot continue to take no for an answer without having the right to objection. And, furthermore, that right to objection cannot not be supplanted by the illusion of being a guided people. NO people on this planet are of the chosen based on an in depth analysis of the scriptures. Some scriptures have been annulled, others have been changed outright. Some have been portrayed as being anti. Anti-what? Anti-slavery? Anti-erosion? Anti-pollution? Anti-war? Anti-system?

The reason we are able to discuss at all is that we have been able to take the art of discussion to progressively higher levels without the bar being set for us by parties having their own agenda acting as though disinterested. Everyone knows that Oswald didn't kill Kennedy, don't they? Well, if not, why all of the effort to make it appear that way, despite major evidence to the contrary? And better still, why the acquiescence of the entire world population, fully knowing that the whole thing is a theater piece? Now, haven't there been enough theater pieces?

Are we going to continue to sit passively at the theater while the film maker continues to fabricate more creative ways of telling us that we haven't got any choice? Can we see that the program is continuous and that the degradation suffered by humanity doesn't equate to what any sound reasoning person would want for a way of life for themselves, much less their children. Search for the truth and let the truth be more important than the preponderance that we can do nothing but sit idly by while we are enslaved for yet another time by the same people who have been historically responsible for slavery for centuries.

I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a truthful new year. Look yourself in the eye and make a difference, even if it's uncomfortable. The same way that a rock rolls downhill, it can also be rolled uphill. The difference is that the habit of doing so may be in perspective more difficult at the outset because evidently, practice makes perfect. But as time goes by, things will in perspective become easier because that is the nature of things. What goes up, must come down.

Love to all of you and hoping that we can be more daring and take a few more risks to wards freeing ourselves once again...

I guess if there will be arrests for this, I won't be spared. I pray that all recognize that this might seem crazy, but then sometimes, drastic measures are attributed to being crazy.

Peace.

A SALAAMU ALAIKUM,

Signed : ABDULLAH BIN SALAAM

HAITI, WITH EIGHT MILLION PEOPLE, IS THE POOREST COUNTRY, in the Western Hemisphere.

Less than 2 percent of its forest cover remains.

Only 28 percent of the land, 10,650 square miles, is considered viable for agriculture.

Two-thirds of the population depends on agriculture.

Eighty percent of the population lives below the absolute poverty threshold income of $150 a year.

SOURCES: CIA WORLD FACTBOOK and United Nations World Food Program.

COURTESY OF :THE VIOLET AGENTS SUPPLY Co., Publisher and Proprietors. 1471 State Street, Chicago, Illinois.

Lecture on Haiti. The Haitian Pavilion. Dedication Ceremonies Delivered at the World's Fair, in Jackson Park, Chicago, January 2nd, 1893, by the HONORABLE FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Ex-Minister to Haiti.

( Continued from "Carl’s Corner," 27th December 2004

Neither the commercial, geographical or numerical importance of Haiti is to be despised. [Applause.] If she wants much from the world, the world wants much that she possesses. [Applause.] She produces coffee, cotton, log-wood, mahogany and lignum-vitae. The revenue realized by the government from these products is between nine and ten millions of dollars. With such an income, if Haiti could be kept free from revolutions, she might easily become, in proportion to her territory and population, the richest country in the world. [Applause] And yet she is comparatively poor, not because she is revolutionary.

The population of Haiti is estimated to be nearly one million. I think the actual number exceeds this estimate. In the towns and cities of the country the people are largely of mixed blood and range all the way from black to white. But the people of the interior are of pure negro blood. The prevailing color among them is a dark brown with a dash of chocolate in it. They are in many respects a fine looking people. There is about them a sort of majesty. They carry themselves proudly erect as if conscious of their freedom and independence. [Applause.]

I thought the women quite superior to the men. They are elastic, vigorous and comely. They move with the step of a blooded horse. The industry, wealth and prosperity of the country depends largely upon them. [Applause.] They supply the towns and cities of Haiti with provisions, bringing them from distances of fifteen and twenty miles, and they often bear an additional burden in the shape of a baby. This baby burden is curiously tied to the sides of the mother.

They seem to think nothing of their burden, the length of the journey or the added weight of the baby. Thousands of these country women in their plain blue gowns and many colored turbans, every morning line the roads leading into Port au Prince. The spectacle is decidedly striking and picturesque. Much of the marketing is also brought down from the mountains on donkeys, mules, small horses and horned cattle. In the management of these animals we see in Haiti a cruelty inherited from the old slave system. They often beat them unmercifully.

I HAVE SAID THAT THE MEN did not strike me as equal to the women, and I think that this is largely due to the fact that most of the men are compelled to spend much of their lives as soldiers in the service of their country, and this is a life often fatal to the growth of all manly qualities. Every third man you meet within the streets of Port au Prince is a soldier.

His vocation is unnatural. He is separated from home and industry. He is tempted to spend much of his time in gambling, drinking and other destructive vices; vices which never fail to show themselves repulsively in the manners and forms of those addicted to them. As I walked through the streets of Port au Prince and saw these marred, shattered and unmanly men, I found myself taking up over Haiti the lament of Jesus over Jerusalem, and saying to myself, "Haiti! Poor Haiti! When will she learn and practice the things that make for her peace and happiness?"

NO OTHER LAND HAS BRIGHTER SKIES. No other land has purer water, richer soil, or a more happily diversified climate. She has all the natural conditions essential to a noble, prosperous and happy country. [Applause.] Yet, there she is, torn and rent by revolutions, by clamorous factions and anarchies; floundering her life away from year in a labyrinth of social misery.

Every little while we find her convulsed by civil war, engaged in the terrible work of death; frantically shedding her own blood and driving her best mental material into hopeless exile. Port au Prince, a city of sixty thousand souls, and capable of being made one of the healthiest, happiest and one of the most beautiful cities of the West Indies, has been destroyed by fire once in each twenty-five years of its history.

The explanation is this: Haiti is a country of revolutions. They break forth without warning and without excuse. The town may stand at sunset and vanish in the morning. Splendid ruins, once the homes of the rich, meet us on every street. Great warehouses, once the property of successful merchants, confront us with their marred and shattered walls in different parts of the city.

When we ask: "Whence these mournful ruins?" and "Why are they not rebuilt?" we are answered by one word-- a word of agony and dismal terror, a word which goes to the core of all this people's woes; It is, "revolution!" Such are the uncertainties and insecurities caused by this revolutionary madness of a part of her people, that no insurance company will insure property at a rate which the holder can afford to pay. Under such a condition of things a tranquil mind is impossible.

There is ever a chronic, feverish looking forward to possible disasters. Incendiary fires; fires set on foot as a proof of dissatisfaction with the government; fires for personal revenge, and fires to promote revolution are of startling frequency. This is sometimes thought to be due to the character of the race. Far from it. [Applause.] The common people of Haiti are peaceful enough. They have no taste for revolutions.

The fault is not with the ignorant many, but with the educated and ambitious few. Too proud to work, and not disposed to go into commerce, they make politics a business of their country. Governed neither by love nor mercy for their country, they care not into what depths she may be plunged. No president, however virtuous, wise and patriotic, ever suits them when they themselves happen to be out of power.

I wish I could say that these are the only conspirators against the peace of Haiti, but I cannot. They have allies in the United States. Recent developments have shown that even a former United States Minister, resident and Consul General to that country has considered against the present government of Haiti. It so happens that we have men in this country who, to accomplish their personal and selfish ends, will fan the flame of passion between the factions in Haiti and will otherwise assist in setting revolutions afoot.

To their shame be it spoken, men in high American quarters have boasted to me of their ability to start a revolution in Haiti at pleasure. They have only to raise sufficient money, they say, with which to arm and otherwise equip the malcontents, of either faction, to affect their object. Men who have old munitions of war or old ships to sell; ships that will go down in the first storm, have an interest in stirring up strife in Haiti. It gives them a market for their worthless wares.

Others of a speculative turn of mind and who have money to lend at high rates of interest are glad to conspire with revolutionary chiefs of either faction, to enable them to start a bloody insurrection. To them, the welfare of Haiti is nothing; the shedding of human blood is nothing; the success of free institutions is nothing, and the ruin of neighboring country is nothing. They are sharks, pirates and Shylocks, greedy for money, no matter at what cost of life and misery to mankind.

Thank you, Beauty with a capital "B." You make me proud !

All the best,

Carl

Quel est ce jeune homme de 72 ans qui n'est pas encore dans son "kabann" à l'heure qu'il est . Minuit 13 ?

A pie nou ye. Sak a pie ka wè.

Kenbe-la rèd.

Jacques

L’ami Jacques, kenbe fèm. Domi tà, reveye gran m maten, se mwen.

À la prochaine,

Carl

Sentidos renovados

Quiero cerrar
las puertas de mi corazon,
ocultar este sentir,
que no me deja vivir

Y con el agua de el olvido
este maldito sentir aplacar,
y del manantial inmenso,
esta sed calmar

Con paso cuidadoso caminar
y con mis sentidos atento,
y de su don,buscar un amor cierto,
no quiero que sea en vano mi intento

Por mantener un corazon reposado
y que el alocado viento,
llevese lo unico que tengo,
este amor que tengo por dentro


No quiero verme,bajo un manto oscuro,
ni en lares lejano,quiero verme renovado
Con mi corazon y mis manos

Como un agitado tul,con su luz adentro,
tras el final encuentro,
acostado en el fondo de tu cuerpo

BON. E POU MWEN FINI ZANMI MWEN YO. Pawol la pou jodi a: "Bon karaktè se wanga fanm lèd.

(Si mesye yo reponn ma poste li.)

Carl,

My questions and comments are in BLUE throughout the text.

I would love to have a comment from Mr. Laraque or Mr. Frank Etienne regarding this. Thanks Carl...yes, you are the bridge that people use, not to cross, but to meet and explore, to learn and discuss.

Prosper

Repwodiksyon tèks konferans Paul Laraque te fè pou

nan Nouyòk, an septanm 1994

Si n vle konprann sa k ap pase kounyea, se pou n keksyone istwa Ayiti. Li kab divize an 6 gran peryòd: peryòd endyen (anvan 1492); peryòd panyòl (1492–1697); peryòd Trete Rizwik-franse (1697–1804); peryòd ayisyen (1804–1915); peryòd ameriken (1915–1934); e peryòd neo-kolonyal (1934–1994).

An 1992, nou te komemore 500 zan rezistans pèp Lamerik yo kont jenosid ak esklavay. Rezistans sa a te koumanse ak Kaonabo e Anakaona depi Panyòl debake; li kontinye ak mawonnaj kasik Anri, revòlt Makandal, enzireksyon jeneral esklav yo ak Boukmann an 1791, abolisyon esklavaj nan Sendomeng an 1793, reyinifikasyon tout peyi a an 1795 sou kòmandman Tousen Louvèti ki, kòm gouvènè-jeneral, mennen batay kont retablisman lesklavaj nan koloni an, anfen Endepandans Ayiti an 1804 ak Desalin.

Apre Lendepandans, lòt mèt—gwo militè milat ak gran nèg nwa—ranplase kolon yo. An 1843–1844, peyizan pòv yo revòlte paske yo pat gen tè; chèf yo, Akao, poze 4 prensip ki toujou valab pou yon revolisyon demokratik an Ayiti: 1) Se travayè tè a ki pou mèt tè a (refòm agrè); 2) Se pou n pwodui sa n bezwen pou viv anvan n pwodui pou ekspòte (sifizans alimantè); 3) «Nèg rich se milat, milat pòv se nèg» (priyorite klas sou ras ou koulè); 4) Se sèl yon lame popilè ki kabab defann revandikasyon mas yo ak enterè peyi a (sou baz strikti ak enterè ekonomik ki la kounyea, klas rich e dominant yo met anplas yon leta, yon lame ak yon polis pou pwoteje lòd sosyal etabli a kont klas domine yo, klas pòv yo, klas travayè yo, sètadi kont enterè pèp la ak peyi a).

Nou konprann ke prensip sa yo sanble kou de gout dlo ak prensip kominis yo, men revolisyon peyizan yo te fèt an 1944 alòske Manifès Pati Kominis la parèt an Ewòp an 1947… An Ayiti, klas posedan yo, milat ak nwa, ki tap bat pou pouvwa a ak privilèj ekonomik yo, met tèt yo ansanm pou kraze «Lame Soufran» Akao a. Yo kontinye briganday yo jouk Okipasyon Militè Amerikèn an an 1915.

Premye bagay «Marin» yo te fè, se dezame pèp la e kreye yon «jandamri» oubyen yon twoup okipasyon endijèn pou ede yo kraze geriya Chalmay Peralt ak Benwa Batravil tap mennen kont Ameriken yo. Lè yo fin «pasifye» peyi a, y ale, men yo kite yon leta neo-kolonyal ak pro-enperyalis pou kontinye fè travay yo san yo pa bezwen la ankò.

Depi anvan 1804, John Adams, prezidan ameriken, te di se ta yon move bagay pou Etazini si koloni franse nan Karayib la ta vin endepandan. Diferans esansyèl la, sèke endepandans Etazini te fèt pa kolon yo ki te mentni lesklavay kòm mwayen pwodiksyon richès peyi a, alòske endepandans Ayiti te fèt pa esklav yo menm.

Pandan lontan, Etazini refize rekonnèt endepandans nou e se sou enfliyans li Ayiti pat envite nan premye konferans peyi endepandan Lamerik yo, malgre zansèt nou yo te batay nan Savana, malgre Desalin te ede Miranda, malgre Petyon te ede Boliva… Pita, Etazini fè sa l te kapab pou met men sou Mòl-Sen-Nikola kòm baz naval; anvan menm Okipasyon Militè a, li te voye yon Kòmando sezi rezèv lò Ayiti nan labak santral Pòtoprens—lajan li pa janm renmèt nou.

Se ak konplisite l, diktatè Trujillo touye yon bann travayè ayisyen an Dominikani an 1937. Etazini soutni rejim militè Maglwa a; li soutni dinasti makout Divalye yo kont pèp ayisyen an. An 1986, li voye avyon chèche Janklod Divalye pou mennen l nan ekzil dore ak lajan pèp la. Li fè lame divalyeris pran pouvwa a ak Nanfi pou frennen mouvman demokratik ayisyen an e anpeche l devlope an yon revolisyon ki ta kab met an kòz rejim kraze-brize opresyon politik la, ki limenm fè pati sistèm eksplwatasyon ekonomik kapitalis la.

Se ak konplisite l ankò lame masakre pèp la pou anpeche eleksyon 1987 yo. Se ak konplisite l e konplisite lame ke Lafontan ak makout li yo tap pran pouvwa a an janvye 1991, si pèp la pat leve-kanpe. Se ak konplisite l, lame fè koudeta septanm 1991 lan. Se sou zòd li, OEA ak LONI fè dilatwa depi 3 zan pou penmèt Sedras, Byanbi, Michèl Franswa ak gang atache yo toufonnen mas ayisyen yo e anpeche prezidan Aristid tounen an Ayiti.

Jodia, Ayiti ap travèse youn nan pi gwo kriz istwa l. Ameriken fout nou nan yon enpas, nan yon nas: swa diktati militè-makout la avi, swa yon okipasyon miltinasyonal. Men, m pap tonbe nan pyèj yo. M pou restorasyon «pwosesis» demokratik la an Ayiti; li pa kab fèt, si Aristid pa tounen, paske, kounyea, kòd lonbrik demokrasi a mare ak «Lavalas».

Men mwen kont tout entèvansyon militè etranje, kit li ameriken kit li miltinasyonal, paske enterè Etazini ak lòt gwo peyi kapitalis yo an kontradiksyon avèk enterè pèp ayisyen: Y ap chache «maksimòm pwofi» ak travay pi bon mache, alòske mas yo bezwen travay byen peye pou chanje lavi yo. Se lespwa sa a Aristid te reprezante pou yo.

Mwen se youn nan premye ekriven ayisyen ki te rekonnèt Pè Aristid kòm entèprèt aspirasyon mas yo e defansè enterè peyi a.

Men, lè l te vin kandida kòm prezidan, m te fè yon deklarasyon pou di mwen regrèt m pat kab swiv li sou teren eleksyon an pou kat rezon: 1) m pa fè lame Dayiti konfyans; 2) m pa fè Washington konfyans; 3) m pa kwè mas ayisyen yo te òganize ase pou pran pouvwa a, e si jamè yo te pran l, pou yo ta kab kenbe l; e 4) gwo feblès mouvman demokratik ayisyen an, sèke li pa ede mas yo prepare tèt yo pou yon lit ame, pou yon lejitim defans, devan yon mons ki pare pou devore yo.

Men pèp la tounen zam eleksyon an kont klas dominan yo e kont enperyalis la. Li chwazi Aristid prezidan ak yon majorite 67%. Ayisyen tankou etranje, tout moun gen pou respekte volonte pèp la. Men lè w pa gen fòs ame popilè, lè lame tradisyonèl ak lapolis makout kraze menm brigad vijilans, ou oblije konte sou solidarite entènasyonal sèlman…

Nou pa dwe konfonn pèp ak gouvènman. Washington, pa ekzanp, pa reprezante enterè mas pèp ameriken an, li pa reprezante mas nwa ameriken yo kap viv nan «geto» ni Endyen natif-natal kap viv nan rezèv yo; li reprezante klas rich yo ak gwo konpayi kapitalis yo; se nan enterè moun sa yo Pantagòn ak CIA ap boule ni Ozetazini ni an Ayiti ni nan tout lòt peyi sou latè.

Yo pap fè envazyon pou Aristid ou pou pèp ayisyen an, men pou pwoteje konplis yo: boujwazi konpradò a ki te bay kòb pou koudeta a, epi lame okipasyon endijèn la ki fè koudeta a. Gen yon gwo alyans, yon gwo konplo ant oligachi ayisyen an ak enperyalis yo. Lame ak makout yo, zenglendo, atache, FRAPH, elatriye… ap fè pwovokasyon sou pwovokasyon pou Ameriken fè envazyon vin pwoteje yo paske yo konnen sa yo fè, e yo pè jistis pèp la. Ameriken vle rekonsilyasyon: se politik jeneral yo.

Nikaragwa, Elsalvadò, Mwayen-Oryan oubyen Afrikdisid montre toujou genyen de kan ame. Men, an Ayiti, pa kab gen rekonsilyasyon ant bouwo ak viktim. Fòk gen jistis anvan. Rekonsilyasyon a vin apre. Desten Ayiti pa lan men l ankò: li lan men Ameriken. Wè pa wè, avèk ou san envazyon, ap gen okipasyon. Fò nou pare pou konbat li an Ayiti, Ozetazini, o Kanada, an Frans, tout kote nou.

Jodia, batay pou demokrasi a pase nesesèman pa «Lavalas» ak yon mouvman pasifik, paske nou poko pare pou lit ame, e lit ame pa fèt konsa, san òganizasyon, san preparasyon revolisyonè.

Men fòk nou aprann lè n fè erè; nou pap mache kont «Lavalas» men fòk n ale pi lwen ke «Lavalas». Fòk nou sonje «Chiapas». Fòk pèp la òganize pou l fè fas ak tout sitiyasyon, fòk li ka anplwaye tout mwayen pou defann tèt li e defann peyi a: pasifikman lè l posib, ak zam lè l nesesè.

Se sa nèg yo konnen ki fè yo soti pou kraze tout rezistans anvan menm li òganize. Men listwa montre n ni Panyòl, ni Franse, ni Ameriken, ni militè, ni makout pa kab kraze kouraj ak rezistans pèp ayisyen. Te gen Kaonabo, te gen Makandal, te gen Boukmann, te gen Tousen, te gen Desalin, te gen Akao, te gen Chalmay Peral ak Benwa Batravil, te gen Jak Aleksi ak Jeral Brison, men sitou te gen e gen toujou pèp la, mas yo ki te aboli lesklavay, ki te ban nou 1804 e ki va ban nou dezyèm endepandans lan.

Ayiti pap mouri
si nou mouri pou li.

—Pòl Larak Tèks konferans pou «Lafanmi Selavi», Nouyòk, 11 septanm 1994.

Dezyèm Okipasyon Militè Ayiti vin fèmen peryòd neo-kolonyal la. Lè fòs okipasyon endijèn yo tonbe nan yon eta dekonpozisyon ki pa penmèt gouvènen ankò, kolonyalism lan, ak Ameriken an tèt, oblije rantre dirèkteman an aksyon pou l regle pwoblèm yo nan sans enterè enperyalis la. Malgre kèk aparans ki kab twonpe moun, kapalis pa chanje: limenm ak eksplwatasyon se kif-kif-bouriko.

Enperyalis, ki dènye louragan kapitalis la, pa kab chanje nonplis, se dominasyon etranje li ye: dominasyon ekonomik, politik, kiltirèl. Kolonyalis te konn pran tè w, apre li pran lespri w; enperyalis pran lespri w anvan l pran tè w. Se sak pase Larisi ak Lewòp Oryantal; se sa kap pase an Ayiti. M pat kwè m ta janm wè yon dezyèm okipasyon peyi m, men m pa pèdi lespwa nan pèp ayisyen. Batay dezyèm endepandans lan fèk koumanse.

—Paul Laraque Nouyòk, 4 òktòb 1994

MEZANMI SE LA MAP RETE POU JODI A. Na pale demen si Granmèt la vle.

KAL

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