Edmonde Supplice Beauzile's Heartfelt Plea: An Appeal to Haitian Consciences for a National Awakening

PORT-AU-PRINCE.— In an appeal of rare gravity, citizen and committed politician Edmonde Supplice Beauzile issues a cry of alarm to the still-standing consciences of the country. Rejecting partisan alignments and opportunistic calculations, she publicly calls upon figures she considers moral and intellectual benchmarks capable of contributing to the recovery of Haiti, mired for decades in a multifaceted crisis.

In her message, Beauzile recalls that the country lacks neither skills nor men and women of value. «Haiti abounds with eminent personalities who claim no allegiance to any chapel, clan, or opportunistic orthodoxy,» she emphasizes, while acknowledging that no absolute neutrality exists. But, she insists, some voices transcend narrow interests and still carry a vision founded on disinterested attachment to the homeland.

Fully assuming the political and symbolic scope of her approach, she specifically names several personalities from the intellectual, religious, cultural, economic, and social spheres, including Arnold Antonin, Evelyne Moïse, Samuel Pierre, Paul Latortue, Mgr Gabriel Julmiste, Mgr Leroy Mesidor, Carole Bérotte, Jean-Marie Caidor, Eddy Étienne, Rudy Edme, Maxime Charles, Kesner Pharel, Patrick Pierre-Louis, Yannick Lahens, Guy Étienne, Joël Pressoir, and Laënnec Hurbon. She specifies that this list is not exhaustive, calling on other citizens aware of the national peril to broaden this circle and multiply their appeals.

But the appeal is clear: it is neither about creating yet another political structure doomed to failure, nor about producing one more document destined to join «the archive of well-intentioned but poorly appreciated efforts.» Edmonde Supplice Beauzile instead calls for a gathering of responsibility, capable of helping political, social, and economic actors, often prisoners of an immediate quest for power, to finally confront the patient.

Her diagnosis is uncompromising: Haiti does not suffer from a lack of analysis, but from a collective refusal to undertake the necessary treatments. She advocates for the emergence of voices capable of imposing a time for awakening, a time for renouncing particular interests, and above all, a time for civic courage. A severe warning accompanies this appeal: history, she warns, does not forgive elites who observe the collapse of their country as lucid but immobile spectators.

In a metaphor heavy with meaning, Edmonde Supplice Beauzile urges everyone to accept, if only for an instant, to step aside for the common good. When the house is burning, patriotism dictates that one abandons quarrels over rooms to save the entire edifice, she concludes, giving her message the tone of a final call for collective responsibility.

Jean Mapou/ Le Relief