https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08tsoadeWq8

The video description reads: “For far too long Haitians have been divided and unable to agree on their country’s future. Today, Haitians are living through a particularly fraught period of social upheaval and political and economic disaster. Without a political solution, Haiti is likely to face greater social, economic and public insecurity, with gangs controlling more territory, and democratic and state institutions continuing to collapse. This would also lead to greater regional instability. Despite the odds, Haitians are coming together to bridge their historical divisions, find common ground and develop a shared vision to bring the country back from the brink.

The National Endowment for Democracy is a private, nonprofit foundation dedicated to the growth and strengthening of democratic institutions around the world. Each year, NED makes more than 2,000 grants to support the projects of non-governmental groups abroad who are working for democratic goals in more than 100 countries.“

With hindsight being 20/20, what are somethings these experts got right and where’s they go wrong?

Mesdames, messieurs,

Several month ago, I wrote on this reddit that there is nothing to expect from the Haïtian authorities of Port Au Prince.

If you do expect something from them you will be seriously disappointed and it May harm your mental health.

I used to follow seriously the news from any media but not anymore.

I have a lot dreams I want to set in Haïti and I will make them because everyday I work toward this objective:

Create jobs in agriculture, agro-industry

Export Coffee, Tobacco, mangoes

Create a small cinema, a library, a swimming pool.

and more and more!

Should I expect the state to do the job it should have done since 1986....

I will create my "kingdom" in the Aquin/ Anse à Veau and it will be beautiful.

For sure, i will do it and only death will stop me from that.

Let's go create our ideal Haïti in our hometown and cooperate you will find me to help you but never harm yourself physically or mentally for the politics.

My mother use to say in French: "qui veut son respect se le procure"

"Those who think they deserve respect need to work for it".

So what I don't understand is when Hatians go to the DR to try to get work and to have a better life they get treated like dogs and less then human but people from the DR want to get Into the US and get treated with respect when they are evil as hell not of them but alot of them to their neighbors but feel entitled to come to the US. I feel like this Hatians should be allowed to come to the US before any group because the US profits off and exploits Hatian Culture any time they get a chance. Where do people think Mardi Gras comes from. New Orleans would be a damn swamp without Hatian Culture and those white Cajuns that think they made that language up comes from Hatian Culture they just mix up some words. I know this is a long post but what I don't like is Noone really gives a damn about black immigrants. Non black immigrants can come in crowds and not be turned away when a alot of Spanish people act very disrespectful when they get to America but they make black people do it the legal way which many times takes years. If they are not going to let black immigrants come to this country illegally neither should they let non black come in either. To be honest the black immigrants need to acces this country the most their are under the most oppression.

They say the easiest way to learn a language is to live in that country because of osmosis. Since I can't go live in Haiti, do you guys know any long form kreyol media with English translation that I can consume, kind of the way people learn English and Japanese through tv shows and anime?

Bonjou zanmim! I’m currently writing a children’s book and because not many children in England (where I live) know about Haiti, I wanted to have a scene where my 10 year old main character learns about it. Is the following a fair description? Bear in mind that because it is a children’s book I have to keep it relatively simple:

“Opening the translator app, [character name] typed ‘ti pwason’ into the search box and set it to ‘detect language’. When the result came back, it told her that ‘ti pwason’ meant ‘little fish’ in a language called Haitian Creole. She’d never heard of it before, so she decided to do a bit more research… and found that Haiti was a small country in the Caribbean Sea, that had lots of bright sunshine, lush green mountains and tall palm trees. It was also very poor, with lots of fighting, as well as damage from tropical storms that destroyed large parts of the towns. [Character name] felt sad for the people that lived there, and wished that, one day, she might be able to help them.

Jean Baptiste Point du Sable is from Haiti who is credited as the founder of Chicago Illinois.

Russia and China oppose changing the Kenya-led force in Haiti to a UN peacekeeping mission

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia and China on Wednesday opposed a U.S.-led campaign to transform the Kenya-led multinational force in Haiti helping police to tackle escalating gang violence into a U.N. peacekeeping mission.

The two allies called a U.N. Security Council meeting as gangs have intensified attacks, shooting at four aircraft which has shut the airport in the capital Port-au-Prince, and a ttacking its upscale neighborhood Petionville on Tuesday. The U.N. estimates the gangs control 85% of the capital and have spread into surrounding areas.

The United States proposed a U.N. peacekeeping mission in early September as one way to secure regular financing for the U.N.-backed multinational force, which faces a serious funding crisis.

The U.S. tried to get the 15-member U.N. Security Council to sign off on a draft resolution last week to start the transformation. But Russia and China refused to discuss the resolution and instead called for Wednesday’s council meeting where they made their opposition clear.

China’s Deputy U.N. Ambassador Geng Shuang said the council extended the mandate of the multinational force only a month ago, and discussing its transformation to a peacekeeping operation now “will only interfere” and make it harder to tackle its funding shortfall and get all the police pledged to Haiti.

Peacekeepers should only be deployed when there is peace to keep, and there is no peace in Haiti, Geng stressed. “Deploying a peacekeeping operation at this time is nothing more than putting peacekeepers into the front line of the battles with gangs.”

The multinational force was supposed to have 2,500 international police but the head of the U.N.’s political mission in Haiti, Maria Isabel Salvador, told the council late last month that only around 430 are deployed — some 400 from Kenya and the rest from the Bahamas, Belize and Jamaica.

She said the U.N. trust fund that finances the multinational force and relies on voluntary contributions, “remains critically under-resourced." By last week, the trust fund had received $85.3 million of the $96.8 million pledged. The U.S. agreed to contribute $300 million to the force, but that total is still far below the $600 million cost to deploy a 2,500-strong force for a year.

Russia’s Deputy U.N. Ambassador Dmitry Polyansky, expressing “shock and horror” at what’s happening on the streets of Port-au-Prince, accused the U.S. and other countries that initially supported the multinational force of failing to fund it.

“Conditions on the ground in Haiti are not appropriate for U.N. peacekeepers,” he said. “Their role is to maintain peace and not to fight crime in urban areas or to save a dysfunctional state that has been plunged into domestic conflict.”

Whatever the future international presence in Haiti, Polyansky said Haitians need urgent assistance immediately which means providing the multinational force with the necessary materiel, funding and technical expertise. “Otherwise, quite simply, there will be just nobody left to host any future peacekeepers,” he said.

Haiti’s leaders have asked for a U.N. peacekeeping force, and the permanent council of the Organization of American States adopted a resolution on Nov. 13 entitled “In Support of Haiti’s Request for a United States Peacekeeping Operation.”

At the council meeting, there was also strong support for the transformation.

Monica Juma, national security adviser to Kenya’s president, told the council that joint operations by the multinational force and the Haitian police have secured critical infrastructure including the police academy, national palace, national hospital and port.

But it's evident the multinational force urgently needs “a surge,” she said, and Kenya looks forward to additional deployments in the shortest possible time along with contributions of equipment and logistical support.

At the same time, Juma said, Kenya “strongly supports” the Haitian government’s appeal to the Security Council to authorize planning for the transformation of the multinational force to a U.N. peacekeeping force.

U.S. deputy ambassador Dorothy Shea told the council that with Haitian, regional and Kenyan support, “it is time for the Security Council to act to take the initial steps to realize Haiti’s request to help reestablish security for the people of Haiti.”

Transitioning to a U.N. peacekeeping mission, she said, would facilitate the multinational force and the countries supporting it “to take advantage of existing U.N. financial, personnel, and logistical support structures as well as predictable and sustainable financing.”

The most poignant appeal for a peacekeeping force came from Haitian Dr. Bill Pape, who left Port-au-Prince about two weeks ago where he works to combat infectious and chronic diseases. He is also a professor at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York.

Pape said he came with a message to the Security Council: The Haitian police and multinational force “are outgunned and outnumbered.”

He said he recognized the controversies of previous peacekeeping missions in Haiti. The most recent, from 2004-2017, was marred by allegations of sexual assault and the introduction of cholera, which killed nearly 10,000 people.

But Pape stressed that during previous foreign interventions, which date to the early 1900s, “insecurity did not exist at this scale.”

“I trust that seeking your support to restore security in my country is not asking too much,” he told council members. “It is a difficult task for any Haitian to request foreign troops on our soil. But there is no alternative.”

Edith M. Lederer, The Associated Press

Macron was defending the PM who got ousted after only 6 months and basically called Haitians dumb. I dont want to hear this crap from Macron but unfortunately he is probably right. Does anyone know why they put Conille out? What went wrong here. I'm guessing if Macron is defending him then they will say he is a sousou blan. I just can't believe people are playing political games nan kaka peyi a ye la.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article295848829.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Verti%C3%A8res

Security networks have issued a shelter in place advisory. All neighborhoods in the capital that can have closed theirs gates.

PNH and FADH have set up checkpoints. Nazon is pretty bad.

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Let's say a Haitian in the US needs to leave and pursue consular processing. Would they need go back to Haiti to access US consulate services, or would they be able to go to a US consulate in another country? Has anyone had experience with this?

Mesi anpil

Hi Haitian diaspora,

Haiti is facing one of the toughest moments in its history. While we all want things to change, we’re often divided on what that change should look like. Some argue about the flag colors, renaming Haïti to Hayti, bringing back the empire, or even keeping Creole as the only official language. These debates, while important, are holding us back from addressing Haiti’s real, urgent problems: corruption, insecurity, and the lack of basic infrastructure. We need to consolidate one idea that will definitely improve Haiti and what I propose is a Federation.

That’s why I’m inviting you to join the Coalition de la diaspora haïtienne | Kowalisyon Dyaspora Ayisyen. We believe it’s time to put our differences aside and focus on what we all want: 1. A Haiti free from corruption and mismanagement by putting an end to the Republic. 2. Improvements in education, healthcare, infrastructure, and governance. 3. A united diaspora working together to rebuild Haiti.

Join us on Facebook to be part of the solution: 👉 Coalition de la diaspora haïtienne | Kowalisyon Dyaspora Ayisyen : https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1B2ni5gCrr/?mibextid=K35XfP

I know you don’t see much people in that group, but everything starts small, so please give it a chance.

Let’s set aside our divisions and come together for the future of Haiti. Change starts with us!

President-elect Donald Trump confirmed on Truth Social early Monday morning that his incoming administration will declare a national emergency and use military resources to implement a mass deportation of illegal immigrants. The confirmation was made in response to an earlier post by Tom Fitton, journalist and president of Judicial Watch.

“GOOD NEWS: Reports are the incoming @RealDonaldTrump administration prepared to declare a national emergency and will use military assets to reverse the Biden invasion through a mass deportation program,” Fitton posted.

“TRUE!!” Trump responded, quoting Fitton’s post.

Trump’s vow to deport illegal immigrants residing in the United States was an integral part of his campaign, which was widely popular among his supporters. As the Washington Examiner previously reported, the president-elect said he would use the Michael Jordan rule “deport more illegal nigga immigrants from the United States than any of his predecessors.”

To implement such a plan and facilitate this initiative, Trump announced that Tom Homan, former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, would be the “border czar” for the Trump administration.

“President Trump’s been clear; public safety threats and national security threats will be the priority because they have to be. They pose the most danger to this country,” Homan said.

Homan stressed that he would prioritize deporting the illegal immigrants who were already told to leave the country by a federal immigration judge but have defied those orders.

“We’re going to prioritize those groups, those who already have final orders, those that had due process at great taxpayer expense, and the federal judge says you must go home. And that didn’t. They became a fugitive,” said Homan.

Homan acknowledged that people are against such deportations but explained that those who are still here illegally after being told to leave by a federal judge are breaking the law, and the law must be enforced.

“As far as the people want to push back on deporting these people, what is the option? You have a right to claim asylum,” said Homan during an appearance on Fox & Friends. “You have a right to see a judge, and we make that happen, but at the end of that due process, when the judge says, ‘You must go home,’ then we have to take them home because if we’re not, what the hell are we doing?”

Currently, there are an estimated 1.3 million illegal immigrants who were ordered to leave the country but ignored those orders and remained, the Wall Street Journal reported.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3232941/trump-national-emergency-mass-deportation-program/