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The struggle for the Caribbean Basin


Three Big Wins for Haiti
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Johanna Mendelson Forman

Anyone visiting Port au Prince today will note that public safety has returned to this city of more than two million people. A democratically elected government is in place, as are local government officials. President Rene Preval has created one of the most inclusive governments in recent history four years after his predecessor Jean Bertrand Aristide was forced to step down as president. There is even an ongoing dialogue with the Dominican Republic on border management and migration.

Much of the credit for this stability goes to the UN Mission in Haiti, MINUSTAH, that together with the Preval government, remain a moderating force in stabilizing Haiti. Its presence, guaranteed by a Security Council Mandate, unfortunately will expire in October 2008. It should be renewed.

This seventh UN intervention in Haiti in just over a decade has also created a new consensus about the role of the international community in the country. No one wants it to fail: not the U.S., the Canadians (the second largest donors), nor the multilateral agencies that support the recovery. Further, Brazil’s lead in peacekeeping has united Latin Americans around a hemispheric security threat.

But Haitians also want to be the masters of their fate. They must be part of the decision-making process. Although Haiti’s government is reconciled to a UN presence to provide security, it is also committed to creating and supporting a new, robust police force of more than 14,000 persons by 2011. We may very well see results, but it will take at least three years. In the meantime, the presence of the UN until that time will help maintain the security environment.

Haiti needs three big wins to sustain its political, social, and economic progress. The transition window is wide open, but this moment must not be squandered.

To build on recent success in the next year, Haitians must see:
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• Expanded Access to Primary Education - International assistance must help offset education expense. Haitian families spend 15 percent of their household income on schooling. Today only 67 percent of children are enrolled in primary schools, 90 percent of which are privately owned and operated. Getting kids into classrooms (42 percent of the population is under age 15), providing them with food, and keeping them off the streets would go a long way towards demonstrating that resources are reaching the most vulnerable.

• Environmental projects that can save the island, create jobs, and provide alternative sources of energy. Ninety-eight percent of Haiti is deforested. There are no more trees to cut down, yet Haiti’s main source of cooking fuel is charcoal made from local wood. Barren hills mean environmental disasters every time it rains. November’s Hurricane Noel killed hundreds of Haitians in flooding.
There is an answer. Haiti could solve its environmental decay and grow energy crops using oilseed plants that already grow in the country. The U.S-Brazil biofuels Agreement singled out Haiti for help. Action is needed now to grow an indigenous plant, jatropha, to produce biodiesel. Not only would it reduce erosion, but community plantations will create new jobs and renew the soil. And the diesel could run generators, produce electricity for lights and thus improve safety.

• Decentralization of government resources outside of Port au Prince so that all Haitians benefit from resources and projects The Republic of Port au Prince, mentality -- where everything flows to the capital -- must be reversed. Creation of jobs and expansion of commerce into other areas of the country will help prevent urban migration. The $1.65 billion in Diaspora funds (35 percent of the current GDP) must be used not only to help individual families, but also the communities where they live. A trust fund for such resources, managed transparently with the Government of Haiti and the World Bank, would go a long way toward supporting progress. Mayors need funds to fix roads and provide public safety. Private sector engagement will happen if the government of Haiti lets it happen.</BLOCKQUOTE>
Everything is a priority in Haiti. Haitians officials and their Diaspora families can become the deciding factor in sustaining the hard-won gains by enabling a future of hope for every Haitian citizen. Right now the good will of the international community is on their side. A new bi-partisan consensus in the U.S. recognizes the urgency of making progress visible. Haiti could become a model for bringing together the forces of public and private development.
Giving people three big wins could produce the tipping point that prevents Haiti from sinking back into yet another botched reconstruction statistic. The time is ripe for success.


Johanna Mendelson Forman is a Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies where she focuses on Latin American security issues. From 2006-2007 she was a consultant to the UN Mission in Port au Prince, Haiti. This article is adapted from one written for the Miami Herald.

It is time that we start an organisation to defend our country of origin,but also to show the Congress of the United States that we, haitian americans ,care about the situation of our brothers and sisters in Haiti.We want to help,but we have to be ensured that our contributions will not be wasted by corrupt politicians.The United States should protect democracy in haiti and not perturb it whenever the elite refuses to obey the will of the majority.

This tradition of overthrowing the governments that want social justice ,decent wages for peasants and laborers ,schools for poor children,hospitals for the sicks ,housing for the poors must cease.For many years this elite plays on the naivety of american officials in labeling those who are fighting to change the conditions of 90% of haitians: communists.These americian officials do not realize as long as these inhumane conditions exist there will always be "boat people" who want to evacuate the hell that haiti represents nowadays.

To understand the malfeasance of this so called elite one has to compare the litteacy rate of the other islands , their percapita and that of haiti to understand the irresponsibility of the past governments.Why is there such a disparity between the percapita of Barbados and that of Haiti?Are there more ressources ,more lands in Barbados than in haiti?No.THEN WHY THE BARBADIANS HAVE SUCH A HIGH STANDARD OF LIVING AND THE HAITIANS ARE SO POOR?

To answer this question one has to review the haitian history.Whenever there is a government that wants to change the conditions of the poors it is overthrown sometimes with the help of the so called "friends of haiti."Haitians are not lazy why then they are so poor?it is this instability created by the elite that perpetuates this inhumane conditions.

We, haitians of the diaspora, who are ashamed of the living conditions of our brothers and sisters say: It is enough.Let us govern our country the way we want without any interference of the so called experts,we will find the solutions to our problems.Liberty ,equality , fraternity, these are our beliefs.

Revelasyon,

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