US IMPERIALISM DESTROYS,
THE PEOPLE OF HAITI
BUILD!
In recent years, the Haitian people have faced constant siege from United States imperialism and the complicity of right-wing forces across the world. Today, Port-au-Prince, the nation’s capital, is under the control of armed gangs that displace entire communities. As a consequence, improvised camps are multiplying under inhumane conditions, making access to basic services such as water, electricity, and waste collection increasingly costly. This situation is further aggravated by the inaction of the Presidential Transitional Council, which leaves communities at the mercy of violence and drives the proliferation of self-defence groups that, over time, have acquired weapons and ammunition to confront the gangs.
In this scenario, while elections and constitutional reforms are being announced – both seemingly unfeasible under gang control – Dominican Republic president Luis Abinader intensifies the mass and arbitrary deportation of Haitians, reinforcing a climate of structural racism, xenophobia, and exclusion. Forced expulsions and hate campaigns against the Haitian people violate fundamental rights and deepen Haiti’s isolation at a time of profound social and political crisis.
In the current context of tensions and military threats from the United States looming over our continent, one of the main strategies to destroy the Haitian nation lies in the advance of extractivism and the appropriation of strategic mineral resources, known as “rare earths”. These natural resources, coveted by imperialist powers, are being plundered with the complicity of the State itself, while insecurity is used as a tool to facilitate extraction without resistance. The silence surrounding this issue is deafening – neither the government nor the press, not even sectors and governments that claim to belong to the progressive camp, have taken responsibility for denouncing what is happening in Haiti.
In the face of this situation, ALBA Movements and the International Peoples’ Assembly, together with Haitian grassroots organisations, make an urgent international call to break the media blockade, to expose this reality, and to join forces in denouncing these operations of domination.
International solidarity with Haiti is today an unpostponable task: to support its people in their resistance, to defend their right to live with dignity, and to accompany their struggles against violence, racism, and the impositions of imperialism.
