*The Bwa Kayiman Battle Cry and Directive is:
E, e, Mbomba, e, e! Kanga Bafyòti. Kanga Mundele. Kanga Ndòki. Kanga yo!
At Bwa Kayiman, on August 14, 1791, the enslaved Haitian rejected bourgeois freedom and fought for universal justice and freedom. The Haitian Revolution continues, today - The call remains the same: E, e, Mbomba, e, e! Kanga Bafyòti. Kanga Mundele. Kanga Ndòki. Kanga yo! "Supreme Creator, tie up (stop/kill or foil) the black collaborators, the white imperialist, all their evil forces, tie them up/stop them now!"
Today the evil forces used in trying to help fulfill Leclerc's old imperative are US/UN occupation, endless debt, NGO dependency, free not fair trade, wage slavery, exiling Haiti's Constitutional government and President and replacing it with weaker governments and Guy Philippe/Louis Jodel Chamblain/Lame Ti manchet death squads, Bush's Gerald Latortue 2004 imposed dictatorship that disenfranchised the masses and has excluded them from elections since. Their NGOs/World Relief Organizations privatize Haiti's pain after the cruelties of Western neo-liberalism has been forcefully applied. The "evil forces" of today also include the embedded mainstream media, the Haitian oligarchy/subcontractors and US/Euro corporatocracy and oil cartels. (Haiti and the Aid Racket : How NGOs are Profiting Off a Grave Situation, Rebuilding Haiti -- the Sweatshop Hoax -Betrayal of Haiti's majority by Liberal Democrats; The Slavery in Haiti the Media Won't Expose and Travesty in Haiti: A true account of Christian missions, orphanages, fraud, food aid and drug trafficking.)
1. Haiti's most valuable asset: Its people -Their land, the Good God/Eye - Bon Dye, the Ancestors and Dessalines' legacy. The Haitian's Remembrances - the Go(o)ds of immemorial Africa and the Black authotones cannot be embodied without Haitian corporeal existence. Nou se Ginen, nou fè yon sèl kò. The living Haitian Gods (sacred energies/vibrations/archetypes/ natural principles, like the warrior mother, Ezili Dantò) are part of the land/universe/biosphere and depend on human devotees for their embodiment on earth. Haitians are sacred vessels who bring to life the living energies in the universe, not just mere mindless labor to be liquidated in the Triangular Trade holocaust or today, in neoliberalism's "Free Trade" for Western assembly plant owner's profit. (See, Going Back to Source - Lasous O M Pwale; Ezili's counter-colonial narrative on Vodun ; Bwa Kayiman, 2008: Reclaiming the Haitian People's Vodun Narrative at Bwa Kayiman and, The Revolutionary Potential of Haiti, its creeds, values and struggle)
2. Haiti's other formidable and invaluable assets are its revolutionary history, strategic location (Windward Passage/Gulf of La Gonave) in the Caribbean for shipping lanes. The Windward Passage connects North America, Central America, South America and the Caribbean Sea. The Gulf of La Gonave and Bay of Port au Prince are the prime locations for accessing Haiti's large oil and gas reserves and the areas most desired by the US/Euros oil cartels for plundering Haiti's assests. Both China and Brazil have negotiated contracts to explore Cuban oil in nearby waters flowing into Haitian territory. Thus, Haiti invaluable assets include its proximity to dynamic markets, its deep water ports, accommodating location (as a US military base) between two non-client countries with oil resources (Cuba and Venezuela) the US wishes to control, its poverty the US/Euro corporatocracy wishes to maintain to use to keep wages in the world low for their Robber Barons' greedy profit and to check China's 1.3-billion people low-wage competitiveness as well as to check China (and even Brazil now from poaching in its imperial "backyard") and, the minerals and resources in the Bay of Port au Prince, Gulf of La Gonave, Haiti's coastlines, lands, rivers, ocean and mountains such as iridium, microbe discovered in Haiti's soil for super-antibiotic drugs, uranium, limestone, coal, gold, copper, gas and oil. ( Oil in Haiti - Economic Reasons for the UN/US occupation and Part 2: Oil in Haiti, reasons for the US occupation; Did mining and oil drilling trigger the Haiti earthquake; and Oil, gas, gold, copper, etc., in Haiti equals US occupation By Jerry Mazza | Online Journal Associate Editor, Feb. 9, 2010; and Big Oil Behind Haiti Earthquake? and Interview (in English - 34:03) with Ezili Dantò on Mining of Haiti Resources and Riches by Chris Scott for CKUT (Listen to interview on mining in Haiti. In April and May of 2009 China overtook the U.S. as Brazil's biggest trade partner... China Eyes Venezuelan and Brazilian Oil by COHA; 20bn barrel oil discovery puts Cuba in the big league, 2008; and, Brazil, Cuba sign oil pact.)
Unique Haiti factors in calculating wealth to understand about Haiti that no other entity but Ezili's HLLN will tell you:
Does the Western economic model and calculation of economic wealth fit Haiti, fit Dessalines' idea of wealth distribution? NO!Haiti is a country filled with "non-workers." With an informal sector that is the economic backbone of Ti Pèp La - the masses in Haiti. Most people in Haiti WORK but that income is not COUNTED because they are NOT working for wages in the Western manner in a Western way. Haiti is a place where even the poorest of the poor OWN their own piece of land in the outback or have family compounds in the Haitian outback where their families have lived for centuries, but this ownership is not given any value because it's not owned by the white settlers and their sycophants. Haiti is a place with iridium, gold, copper, uranium, gas reserves and oil, soil/super antibiotic, limestone, coal, precious minerals, underwater sea treasures and where the poorest own the property where these assets are located. Yet none of these are calculated in Haiti's wealth index by the World Bank, IMF or IFIs, UN, State Department, et al... It seems Haiti is poor because poor people own it. When the white settlers' and their corporatocracy finally encroach, steal and plunder Haiti with the help of the Haitian Oligarchy, then it shall acquire value! (See, The Western vs Real Narrative on Haiti) and Economic proposals that make sense for the reality of Haiti; and the Three False Stereotypes About Haiti - Haiti is not small but is the third largest nation in the Caribbean with pure natural resources, no tourist dependency, is only overcrowded in Port au Prince not in the rest of the country, has 38% more coastline than Dominican Republic.)
No other national group anywhere in the world sends more money home than Haitians living abroad ( $2-billion per year)
4. Why Haiti is so poor - Haiti's endless Independence Debt/Role of International Community, NGO class and Haitian Oligarchy
The Slavery in Haiti the Media Won't Expose; Haiti and the Aid Racket : How NGOs are Profiting Off a Grave Situation, and Rebuilding Haiti -- the Sweatshop Hoax -Betrayal of Haiti's majority by Liberal Democrats.
5. Legacy of Impunity
(Example with Raboto trial with this HLLN Haiti Forum special guest, Haitian judge, The Honorable Judge Jean Sénat Fleury)
The Neocolonialist inciting political instability is the problem. Haiti is underdeveloped in crime, corruption and violence compared to other nations. (See Legacy of Impunity)
Haitian Oligarchy: Acra, Merv, Brandt, Nadal, Coles, Baussan, Vital, Vorbes, Madsen, Boulos, Bigio...pulling the instability strings in the shadows. (See, The Slavery in Haiti the Media Won't Expose; and Haiti and the Aid Racket : How NGOs are Profiting Off a Grave Situation, and Rebuilding Haiti -- the Sweatshop Hoax -Betrayal of Haiti's majority by Liberal Democrats.)
Who is bringing Haiti security and democracy but an undemocratic UN with 192 member countries and 5 countries (the U.S., Britain, France, Russia and China) with veto power, similar to the undemocratic WB and IMF Western tools and a US that, unlike Haiti, who first put universal liberty into application, doesn't elect its president directly as well as countries with more violence rate than "parentless" Haiti. To wit: Expose the lies: Violent Haiti is a myth - There's MORE violence in Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Brazil, Mexico, Columbia, even in the United States than there is in Haiti.
Also there's more HIV/AIDS in Washington, DC/USA (3.0) and in the Bahamas (3.0) than there is in Haiti (2.2), but Haiti is the one whose HIV rate is constantly recalled... the Western country's paternalistic narrative uses Haiti to boost their egos. Their cruel projections mostly don't survive objective inspection...Haiti's people are still paying the Independence Debt. (What's in a name? Some names horrify enslavers, tyrants and despots, everywhere...)
6. Changing Haiti's Paradigm: Toward a new US/Euro Partnership
Haiti Sovereignty: Relief/rebuilding cannot take place on top of the illegal Bush Regime Change/UN occupation fault line.
7. What Can YOU DO
Join the Ezili HLL N etwork. Become a paid subscriber to the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network listserve Donate to support our work and the HLLN earthquake relief fund; Circulate our postings, participate in our people-to-people programs, our letter-writing campaigns and the FreeHaitiMovement. Sponsor a To-Tell-the-Truth-about-Haiti-Forum.
