From America Latina by Fernando Bossi:
Haiti is a bad example for the United States. Haitian blacks had not only freed themselves from Spanish, English and French colonialism, but had also freed themselves from opprobrious slavery. While the abolition was being implemented in the Caribbean island, thousands and thousands of slaves bled out in the southern plantations of the country founded by Washington.
The American governments always got angry with Haiti. First they blocked it, and then supported the white oligarchy in the dispossession of the lands of the poor peasants. Sugar plantations broke through the tragic deforestation. Not satisfied with this, in 1915 they invaded the country, taking the safe with all monetary reserves, seizing Customs, allowing foreigners to buy Haitian land and installing the Haitian American Sugar Company as the main agribusiness company and the City Bank as the main financial entity.
One of those who was in charge of the invasion was General Smedley Butler. This character, awarded with honors and medals, already in his retirement and with a mixture of cynicism and sincerity said: “I have served for 30 years and four months in the most combative units of the US armed forces: in the Marines. I have the feeling of having acted during all this time of highly qualified bandit, at the service of the great businesses of Wall Street and its bankers.”
Before the US military occupation, a group of patriotic officers, commanded by Charlemagne Peralte, organized the resistance. Guerrilla warfare broke out throughout the territory. The fight was bloody and the Yankees had to appeal to reinforcements. The brutal imperialist action was mass murder, fires of entire populations, torture and abuses of all kinds. The counterface to Yankee bestiality was the heroism of the Haitians.
Only betrayal could with Charlemagne Peralte. A gringo officer in disguise killed him by shooting him in the heart. It was on November 1, 1919 and his body was hung and displayed, tied to a door, in a public square. The Yankees photographed Charlemagne's body and circulated the image for the insurrection of Haitian insurgents. More Haitians saw in that image a martyred black Christ, and also an example of patriotism and revolutionary conviction.
On the centenary of the passage to the immortality of the patriotic and anti-imperialist leader Charlemagne Peralte, the Haitian people are once again fighting against their historical enemies.
The little resonance in the media of this new uprising of the Haitian people draws attention, and I do not only say of the means in the hands of the great capital - which is logical that no protests are held - but also of the progressive or leftist media.
Eternal glory to Charlemagne Peralte!
Long live the struggle of the heroic people of Haiti!
