>I have no idea who “Joe Radical” is or where he gets his information on >Haiti, but the idea that the former FRAPH and FAdH paramilitaries that are >demanding back pay in Haiti are some expression of “proletarian >contestation” – if not asserted out of pure ignorance of Haiti’s class >dynamics – is worthy of Timothy Leary on his best mescaline. The soldiers >were put out of their jobs when the army was disbanded, whereupon they >migrated to DR with the help of Uncle Sugar and began plotting the next >takeover. Back pay! Their back pay should be a bullet for each brain >stem. Their latest method for showing who’s boss in small villes is to >shoot teenage girls in the crotch with 12-guage shotguns. > >These are representatives of the most reactionary sector of Haitian >society, and their fight with the compradors of 184/Convergence is a fight >for political power between Duvalierist caudillos and financial >technocrats like Apaid and Bazin. The masses – which are largely >peasants, not proletarians – are feared by both these sectors equally, and >it is the uprisings of the masses that continually force these two ruling >factions back into one another’s arms during their internecine truces – as >they combined to oust Aristide who was elected by 92% of the Haitian people. > >His conflation of the former military and the urban intifada in the slums >shows he knows nothing about Haiti. The paramilitaries have been busy, >busy, busy killing people in the slums for months now in an effort to >extinguish this rebellion. > >By the way, it is Jean-Bertrand Aristide, not Bernard. > >“Seminal moment and portent of things to come,” indeed. Pass the crack pipe.
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