Dr. Emmanuel Ménard Writes to President Donald Trump
Haiti, May 5, 2025 Mr. President, The historical and esoteric relations that have always linked our countries, authors of the two greatest revolutions in the Americas, compel me today to address you at a time when my weary people are nailed to the pillory of martyrdom.
By Newsroom · Port-au-Prince
· 3 min read · Updated 24 April 2026
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Haiti, May 5, 2025
Mr. President,
The historical and esoteric relations that have always linked our countries, authors of the two greatest revolutions in the Americas, compel me today to address you at a time when my weary people are nailed to the pillory of martyrdom. Considered by the West as cheap labor, it has been domesticated in sugar factories in the Dominican Republic and Cuba, exploited almost everywhere in the factories of large multinationals. Today, this brave people, exiled in their own country, are scorned under every roof of the free world and so-called civilized nations, while they would wish to stay home and participate in the reconstruction of their country.
Mr. President,
I am writing this open letter to you, in the name of the principle condemning non-assistance to persons in danger. Currently, the Haitian population is in great danger just a few nautical miles from wealthy Florida; death has become a hope for millions of women and children desperately seeking to escape the clutches of horror and sub-humanity.
Your government has just recognized that terrorists are operating on Haitian soil, threatening American interests, thereby endangering your country's internal security and the stability of the Caribbean and Americas sub-region. Yet, Haiti produces neither weapons nor drugs. It is a victim of its geographical position, international hypocrisy, and internal political delinquency.
For more than five consecutive years, Haiti has been begging for help everywhere, but unfortunately, it helplessly witnesses endless debates at the Security Council where the world's powers squabble over its case, as if to ease their conscience. An international police mission is deployed on the ground with no results. Everyone knows that the police do not wage war against terrorists.
That is why I solicit your personal commitment in Haiti's case, as you do for Gaza and Ukraine in favor of peace. In the battle against this new kind of terrorism that has developed in Haiti in the ghettos, the halls, and corridors of political power, with an increase in illicit trafficking, the infiltration of international extremist cartels, the American administration cannot continue to support a nine-member Presidential Council whose public management is catastrophic, and the suspicion of its collusion with mafia and radical groups is growing.
To solve Haiti's problem, there must be an international will accepting the right of Haitians to self-determination, a concerted effort to help it re-establish security and guarantee, as in a Marshall Plan, massive lucrative investment for the creation of quality sustainable jobs. In truth, Mr. President, the Haitian people are not looking for a humanitarian assistance program.
Therefore, I humanely invite you to a re-evaluation of American policy towards Haiti, for strengthened military cooperation and the development of a win-win strategic, economic, commercial, and industrial partnership.
Assured that this will receive your high attention, I take this opportunity to convey to you, Mr. President, all my civilities.
Dr. Emmanuel Ménard
President of the Louverturian Reformist Force
Mr. President,
The historical and esoteric relations that have always linked our countries, authors of the two greatest revolutions in the Americas, compel me today to address you at a time when my weary people are nailed to the pillory of martyrdom. Considered by the West as cheap labor, it has been domesticated in sugar factories in the Dominican Republic and Cuba, exploited almost everywhere in the factories of large multinationals. Today, this brave people, exiled in their own country, are scorned under every roof of the free world and so-called civilized nations, while they would wish to stay home and participate in the reconstruction of their country.
Mr. President,
I am writing this open letter to you, in the name of the principle condemning non-assistance to persons in danger. Currently, the Haitian population is in great danger just a few nautical miles from wealthy Florida; death has become a hope for millions of women and children desperately seeking to escape the clutches of horror and sub-humanity.
Your government has just recognized that terrorists are operating on Haitian soil, threatening American interests, thereby endangering your country's internal security and the stability of the Caribbean and Americas sub-region. Yet, Haiti produces neither weapons nor drugs. It is a victim of its geographical position, international hypocrisy, and internal political delinquency.
For more than five consecutive years, Haiti has been begging for help everywhere, but unfortunately, it helplessly witnesses endless debates at the Security Council where the world's powers squabble over its case, as if to ease their conscience. An international police mission is deployed on the ground with no results. Everyone knows that the police do not wage war against terrorists.
That is why I solicit your personal commitment in Haiti's case, as you do for Gaza and Ukraine in favor of peace. In the battle against this new kind of terrorism that has developed in Haiti in the ghettos, the halls, and corridors of political power, with an increase in illicit trafficking, the infiltration of international extremist cartels, the American administration cannot continue to support a nine-member Presidential Council whose public management is catastrophic, and the suspicion of its collusion with mafia and radical groups is growing.
To solve Haiti's problem, there must be an international will accepting the right of Haitians to self-determination, a concerted effort to help it re-establish security and guarantee, as in a Marshall Plan, massive lucrative investment for the creation of quality sustainable jobs. In truth, Mr. President, the Haitian people are not looking for a humanitarian assistance program.
Therefore, I humanely invite you to a re-evaluation of American policy towards Haiti, for strengthened military cooperation and the development of a win-win strategic, economic, commercial, and industrial partnership.
Assured that this will receive your high attention, I take this opportunity to convey to you, Mr. President, all my civilities.
Dr. Emmanuel Ménard
President of the Louverturian Reformist Force
