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COHA commentary is misleading

Monday, September 18, 2006

The commentary on restavec in Haiti is at best skewed or at worst misleading. The problem of Haiti is that country is inhospitable to its own people, whether you are from the middle class, the Diaspora, well off and in particular poor. In focusing the problem on restavec you are extending the life of Haiti underdevelopment, postponing its advance towards the march for a Haiti which will be good for all.

At this present time, life in Haiti is so miserable that one has to adopt not only " a restavec" but also his and her children as well as the children of their children. The housing crisis in the cities, the lack of employment, the indifference of the State and the irrelevance of the multiple ONG make the situation untenable for all.

I would suggest that you go back to the drawing board and study the issue of why such a gallant Haiti that dismantled two hundred years ago the world order of slavery reverted back, seven years after that epic battle, into this de facto apartheid situation.

The true story of Haiti is the contradiction in the marginalisation of the many, is more visible there, the same vista is present in Brazil, Mexico, India, Bolivia etc. The solution is how we can spark the leadership of Rosa Parks in all these outposts to create countries that see themselves a la Renan: a nation with a shared vision for and through all.

Jean Charles

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