With the participation of representatives of various platforms and social movements of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and other parts of the world, this Monday, the Simón Bolívar Institute for Peace and Solidarity among Peoples (ISB), through its program “Alexander Petión”, organized the webinar What’s happening in Haiti? Popular perspectives, as part of the international day of solidarity with the Haitian people in the midst of the political crisis that the country is experiencing.
“It is for us an opportunity to express the solidarity we feel as the Venezuelan people with the people of Haiti”, said the executive director of the ISB, Carmen Navas Reyes, to begin the meeting that featured the presentations of the international coordinator of the Network of the Pan-African Solidarity of Community Movement Builders, Mamyrah Prosper; the Argentine internationalist and activist, Lautaro Rivara; and for Venezuela, Ana Maldonado and Hernán Vargas.
Regarding the proliferation of irregular armed groups in the Caribbean nation, he pointed out that “this crime that Haiti is going through is not a spontaneous, civil crime that arises from impoverished populations, but is a purely manufactured crime.”
“It is very difficult to understand what is happening in Haiti today if we do not refer to what is happening in the dominant geopolitics of the United States and refer to the interests of some European powers over this small country”, he added, while making a call to all the participants in the webinar and social movements of the world to make visible the social struggles that the Haitian people are undertaking.
Meanwhile, one of the promoters of the Bicentennial Congress of the Peoples, Hernán Vargas, asked himself: “What can we do for Haiti?” Calling to “unite all voices in denouncing what is happening” in that country, “but also unite all that diaspora and all that working mass in order to improve them.”
“In order to rebuild a Haitian society that fights for equality, that is why thousands of people are mobilizing today in Port-au-Prince, to prevent a migration of the workforce that is the engine of capital throughout the Caribbean region.” He stressed.
The day of international solidarity with Haiti was called for this March 29 in the framework of the battle of that heroic people against an anti-national, surrender, illegitimate and illegal government that, with the sponsorship of the United States, the European Union and the Organization of American States (OAS) that are determined to maintain power outside of the term provided in the country’s Constitution.