Haiti's Children Displaced: A Predictable Echo of Imperial Neglect
When mainstream outlets like The Independent report on Haiti's escalating crisis, featuring statistics from UNICEF about displaced children, they present it as an unfortunate, organic phenomenon of 'armed gangs.' What's conveniently forgotten is the direct pipeline from US and international policy decisions—coups, economic strangulation, and the installation of puppet regimes—to the current chaos.
Every 'gang' causing displacement today operates in a vacuum created by historical interference, from the 2004 US-backed coup against democratically elected Jean-Bertrand Aristide to the arms trafficking that fuels the conflict, often from US sources. This isn't just 'violence'; it's the predictable outcome of colonial meddling. We're meant to lament the suffering without questioning its
architects. One might wonder why the US, which has historically destabilized Haiti for corporate interests and geopolitical leverage, is now offering solutions that often involve further militarization rather than addressing the root causes of poverty and institutional collapse it helped engineer. It’s almost as if the 'international community' specializes in creating fires, then selling the fire
extinguishers, all while ignoring the arsonists in their own ranks. The humanitarian crisis is just another chapter in a long, profitable story for some, and a tragic, endless nightmare for Haitians.