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A year after the earthquake in Haiti: The debts of the "democracies"

January 12, marks the first anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti, the "land of mountains" by its indigenous name. The earthquake was not the first disaster, but a brutal manner in which they showed the accumulation of natural disasters-for-anything, imperialist governments in Europe and the U.S., and the governments subservient to them in Latin America, have led for several centuries, from the time that Christopher Columbus discovered after his arrival in these lands, the territory that would provide wealth to the emerging capitalism in Europe.

The earthquake was brutally unpredictability of all policies mounted during centuries of colonialism, and particularly the inability of the multinational occupation force, MINUSTAH, Stabilization Mission in Haiti United Nations to solve the social problems caused by looting and neglect. Not only incompetence, but something worse: the MINUSTAH was a vehicle for disasters, to further deaths, to make Haiti a country increasingly weak and subordinate to transnational powers and the imperialist countries.

The Haitian people have been paying the hard way the fact be established, from the Declaration of Independence on 1 January 1804 the first free nation in America, and the first black republic in the world. The example libertarian, denouncing the colonial policies, racist, predatory, was severely punished. Setting aside their rivalries, France, USA, UK, Netherlands, acted from the beginning to strangle the libertarian revolution and antislavery. To achieve diplomatic recognition, after 21 years of isolation, Haiti was forced to receive a loan from a French bank, designed to pay compensation to the French plantation owners for the "loss of property" (which included the freed slaves) - incurring a debt amounted to 150 million francs (21 billion dollars).

In 1915, the U.S. invasion re-established slavery. In that year, 80% of state revenues were used to pay debt service, which is only paid off in 1947. This was followed by other U.S. invasions, and the last, which allowed for the entrance of the MINUSTAH, with the presence of American troops subsequently served to occupy the territory of Haiti since July 2004.

Haiti How often paid the price for their freedom?

Since its establishment in Haiti was reported many times the MINUSTAH military intervention as the cause of torture, murder and rape to the Haitian people. Repression of popular demonstrations, rape of women and girls. It was also alleged inaction against the earthquake, and even more, the use of the resources that came as solidarity, to supply the troops. The answer given by MINUSTAH in front of the earthquake was the increasing militarization, and the transformation of the territory into a huge military base. Very little was done to alleviate the situation of a population in the context in which most of the infrastructure was destroyed, lost more 220 thousand lives and one million 600 thousand people in 1300 lived since makeshift camps with poor sanitary conditions. According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in the last five months, displaced half a million Haitians have left the camps for displaced persons occupying since the earthquake, the difficulty of living in tents that could not withstand heavy rains and for fear of cholera. Also reported rapes of women and girls in such abject poverty. However, more than a million Haitians are still in those settlements.

The Haitian people responsible MINUSTAH also be the bearer of the cholera epidemic that has resulted from mid-October killed more than two thousand people, there being 100,000 affected. This version was confirmed by research conducted at the request of the Government of France for the epidemiologist in the country, Piarroux Renaud, who concluded that the bacterium that causes cholera Haitian soil reached the Nepalese battalion of United Nations.

also noted the responsibility of MINUSTAH and the Haitian government in the conduct of the elections on 28 November, which was marked by several irregularities as a strong absenteeism (in the context of the consequences of the earthquake and the cholera epidemic), fraud, and repression of the military action that left more dead and many injured in the crackdown. According

denounce Haitian social movements, transnational corporations from France, Canada and the United States and other countries have sparked a fight indecent to manage financial resources for the reconstruction of Haiti. One of the most significant cases was the controversial U.S. donation of 475 tons of Monsanto genetically modified seeds, which sparked a wave of protests from the peasant movement, which states that they are mechanisms to increase the levels of dependence on Haitian agriculture, as opposed to transnational agribusiness.

Ultimately, all actions of MINUSTAH, tend to reinforce the vulnerability of the Haitian people, and a higher level of predation, plunder and social disorganization.

social movements Argentina-ALBA-chapter, we demand that the Argentine government to withdraw troops from MINUSTAH intervention.

There is no reason to stay Argentine military in the context of a mission that has violated human rights and the fundamental right to self-determination of the Haitian people.

demand the annulment of Haiti's external debt.

require such a genuine solidarity with the Haitian people, not elites, working with the specific missions undertaken by the Cuban government, the government of Venezuela, and allowing them to be popular organizations to decide the ways and criteria for the reconstruction of Haiti.

Our solidarity is manifested in this way, and being part of the international brigades of the Via Campesina is holding in Haiti, to realize the solidarity of people to people.

A year after the earthquake:
invading troops out of Haiti!

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CHAPTER ARGENTINA

Workers' Central of Argentina (CTA), Frente Popular Darío Santillán (FPDS), National Peasant and Indigenous Movement (MNCI), Juventud Rebelde, December 20 (La Mella, the brawl, Wolf Loose) Scarves in Rebellion; Group Latin American Studies (GEAL)