The Haitian masses continue their march towards revolution. Since February 7—the anniversary of the inauguration of the popular anti-imperialist Jean-Bertrand Aristide—hundreds of thousands of Haitians have flooded the streets in a renewed outpouring of popular protest.
When the working masses rise up against a ruling elite that Washington favors, the big business media looks the other way. So it is with Haiti where day after day, people are taking to the streets to demand the resignation of the Jovenel Moise, head of the corrupt U.S. backed government that has robbed the people of billions of dollars while the majority of Haitians struggle to afford basic necessities. To add insult to injury, Moise’s government has sided with the U.S. in their attempt to force a coup in Venezuela, betraying the solidarity that the Venezuelan government extended to the Haitian people through its PetroCaribe program which afforded Haitians subsidized oil and cheap credit when the imperialist banks would have otherwise fleeced them.
The government has responded with brutal repression. Police as well as government-hired foreign mercenaries have killed more than a dozen people with many more wounded.
But the people’s will for change will not be stopped; they are calling upon their national legacy of revolution to make real their demand for independence and dignity.