Haiti's Inclusion in a Final Plan
By La Rédaction · Port-au-Prince
· 8 min read · Updated 24 April 2026
Translated from French — AI-assisted and reviewed by the editorial team. The French version is authoritative. Read the original · About our translation policy
Our world is threatened by a phenomenon that gnaws at it like a canker: illimitism. This illusion of power that inflates the heads of mortals who dream of becoming immortal makes humanity tremble to its foundations. We want to have everything, and immediately; even if it means devastating the entire ecosystem that allows life to flourish. In the name of growth, individualism, and this frenzied illimitism, the rights of peoples are what the powerful desire. Haiti, caught in the nets of Machiavellian geopolitics, is breaking under the force of weapons that surround us on all sides.
By Marnatha I. Ternier
The world is caught in turmoil. An eruption of madness shatters any spirit of harmony that should guide us. The strongest, in an ideal world, should extend a hand to the weakest; and our neighbors, for their part, would not throw oil on our fires.
Let's look at Haiti, our homeland: it is neither Rome nor the United Kingdom. And yet, under every roof, tongues are loosened, for other nations are rising as new masters of our land. Urbi et orbi, Haiti attracts covetousness. The Vatican, the United States of America, Great Britain fix their gaze on the Pearl of the Antilles, like a jewel disputed in hushed tones. And the countries which, at every major meeting, proclaim themselves partners in sustainable development, often come only to claim their share of the cake, tablecloth already set, cutlery on the table. And in the shadows, the subordinates, our immediate neighbor, and this “brother” from afar, watch, hoping to gnaw on some discarded bones, while wearing the noble mask of solidarity. For here, international generosity often has the discreet taste of a well-calculated investment. It is not because Donald Trump called our country a “shithole” that we will no longer repeat after Simon Bolivar: “Haiti, this emerald fallen from God's ring into the Caribbean Sea, is a land of struggles for freedom.” Look what they have made of us. No! Haiti does not deserve this fate. It is not a matter of chance. This situation we have inherited did not fall from the sky. Nor is it the result of some subterranean forces from hell. This situation is the product of our intellectual, political, and economic elites. Look at the gallery of Haiti's friends: BINUH, CoreGroup, MMSS, Embassies, Consulates, OIF, UNESCO, Friendly Countries, CARICOM, OAS, UN, Neighboring Countries, African Countries, Latin Americans, Anglo-Saxons, European Union, IDB, World Bank. Have you seen how they treated us? Facts for Self-Examination
Haiti, as in the beginning, is alone in the world. Enveloped in its solitude for two centuries, Haiti struggles, a rope around its neck, refusing to give up the ghost. We watch time slip away until our demise. The noose tightens around us. The metropolitan area today is apparently occupied by criminal gangs up to more than 90%. What exactly do they want?
A state entirely controlled by gangsters to give free rein to terrorist activities. To transform Haiti into a medical desert so that no one can find healthcare; to close schools, universities, vocational centers so that we return to the Stone Age. Why have we not chosen education?
Not choosing education is a desire to darken minds. A desire for Haiti not to be a miracle. “Haiti, where Negritude stood up for the first time,” to parody Aimé Césaire, must not die. Haiti, Quisqueya or Bohio is a land of myth, epic, and struggles for freedom. And it is through education that the intellectual and moral faculties of this people will be developed so that they improve and manage to break free – through self-examination – from this servitude that pushes us to ignobly turn against ourselves. Look at how today our peasants are driven from our fertile lands! They are expelled with machine-gun fire so that they can no longer put anything in their mouths. Let us remember the homily, in January 1991, by Monsignor François Wolf Ligondé: “If Haitians only think of satisfying their vengeance instead of uniting to save the nurturing land that is going to the sea, in the year 2000 we will eat rocks, and in the year 2004 we will celebrate the second centenary of independence in a desert.” Our people are in danger. Meanwhile, the United Nations has its eyes fixed on its charter and its piles of moldy human rights files. The World, a Playground for the Powerful
Look at how gangs have become masters of diversion. Let's open our eyes to their methods. They maneuver towards the Central Plateau, Mirebalais, in particular, to better rebound in the West, towards Port-au-Prince. Thus they will complete the promised 100 percent loop. “Sa nou wè a se sa.” What we see is what we see. The gangs – who are involved in everything like a plate of spaghetti – are the new mercenaries of current crime. They facilitate things under the guise of gang federations, families, and allies. Their name doesn't matter. The powerful have no allies. They only have servants at their command. The demolishers of the Republic do not know that the powerful like to share the world like a cake. Let us remember that in 1697, by the Treaty of Ryswick, Spain and France had shared the island of Haiti. Every time gangs sow terror and violence, they loudly proclaim their misdeed. They display it. They publish their enormous crime so that no one is unaware. And when they sign with a zest for life what they have orchestrated, they exult: “We do exactly as the White man asks us.” What a striking illustration of the internalization of the master's will through the mouths of his slaves! This confession to whitewash their dark conscience also testifies to the situation of our disoriented elites, incapable of breaking free from the ties that bind them. How can such words cross the lips of the heirs of the valiant warriors who fought at Vertières? The gangs – armed by the children of the people to destroy Haiti – are driven, unknowingly, by the will to be enslaved. They will never know that they are fighting a shameful battle for the reconquest of the country by their masters. Facts and Questions
Lethal weapons and ammunition are pouring in much more than basic foodstuffs that could help families and prevent deaths due to malnutrition. Gangs strip small vendors of their trade; they kill, loot, burn, and rape. They are on a mission. Even our law enforcement dares not arrest them. Do you know of any lost territory in Haiti that has been recovered? Why, when the international community steps up, is it just hot air? Why does this wind blow on our fires? Do you know the best way in the 21st century to exterminate an entire people? Why isolate Haiti from the rest of the world? Since 2021, the year that coincides with the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, on the night of July 6 to 7, 2021, in his residence in Pèlerin 5 not far from Pétion-Ville, all the old demons have been unleashed on our territory. A plot against the country has been masterfully hatched. This time, they have stirred up the marginalized. They have armed our youth, our children from popular neighborhoods; they have promised them mountains and marvels. The ghettos have taken over from foreign occupation forces. They manage to stem the rivers of demonstrators on the concrete better than our law enforcement. The facts being written by our instant historians are linked to antecedents. René Préval, between 1997 and 1998, had already attempted to evacuate the project for the unification of the island, which was to be called “Hispaniola Project” under the Dominican Label. Long before René Préval, we had not yet been explained “this small disorder” committed and confessed by former President Jean Bertrand Aristide. President René Préval, for his part, had skillfully circumvented the plan for the expropriation of the capital, Port-au-Prince, during his second presidential term. Before leaving power in 2011, he had signed a decree to set the machine in motion. Upon coming to power, President Michel Martelly, without encountering the slightest resistance, plunged straight into the established plan that led us to the current ruins. However, everything started there, and no one has yet come to explain to us the details of his many trips around the world during his presidential term between 2011 and 2016. Michel Martelly is one of the Haitian presidents who traveled abroad the most. A true record holder. Between June 2011 and June 2015, he made forty (40) international trips, totaling 1,941 days of absence from the country. These trips incurred significant expenses, with per diems estimated at approximately 3.8 million US dollars. And what did he negotiate during all these trips? Going back through the events, history grips us. The facts are there. Nearly ten (10) thousand people were assassinated between the 1991 coup d'état, which ended in October 1994, and the February 2004 coup d'état, which was followed by a de facto government with a puppet president. Professors, students, many young people with brilliant futures fell in 2004, through the GNB movement. After the spectacular assassination of Jovenel Moïse in July 2021, the decimation machine restarted. The political class, through the current nine (9)-member Transitional Presidential Council (CPT), is simply sounding the death knell. The economic class, for its part, very easily fell into the trap of economic sanctions, which sometimes denounce their direct involvement in cases of organized crime, corruption, money laundering, financing of terrorism, or complicity in heinous assassinations. The latest official statistics from 2024 reveal that our population is estimated at twelve (12) million souls. More than four (4) million reside in the West department. Why this strange focus on Port-au-Prince, the capital?
It is these four (4) million people who are being assassinated, who are being suffocated since 2021, because they are prevented from freely going about their usual occupations. It is also all these departments from North to South and from East to West, meaning more than seven (7) other million inhabitants who are prevented from traveling from their provinces to the capital. Or, from the capital abroad, under the pretext that commercial flights are unsafe in our territory. Our nights, like our days under high tension, are enveloped in darkness. In these wavering moments of doubt, let the flame of patriotism burning within us ignite. “Ayiti pap péri”! Let us not be afraid. We must have the intransigence of this courage rooted in the energy of Vertières to break free from the cycle of misfortune, drama, and catastrophe of a governance capable of generating unhappiness, ill-being, and poverty for the majority. Haiti will be reborn.
Marnatha I. Ternier
May 2025
The world is caught in turmoil. An eruption of madness shatters any spirit of harmony that should guide us. The strongest, in an ideal world, should extend a hand to the weakest; and our neighbors, for their part, would not throw oil on our fires.
Let's look at Haiti, our homeland: it is neither Rome nor the United Kingdom. And yet, under every roof, tongues are loosened, for other nations are rising as new masters of our land. Urbi et orbi, Haiti attracts covetousness. The Vatican, the United States of America, Great Britain fix their gaze on the Pearl of the Antilles, like a jewel disputed in hushed tones. And the countries which, at every major meeting, proclaim themselves partners in sustainable development, often come only to claim their share of the cake, tablecloth already set, cutlery on the table. And in the shadows, the subordinates, our immediate neighbor, and this “brother” from afar, watch, hoping to gnaw on some discarded bones, while wearing the noble mask of solidarity. For here, international generosity often has the discreet taste of a well-calculated investment. It is not because Donald Trump called our country a “shithole” that we will no longer repeat after Simon Bolivar: “Haiti, this emerald fallen from God's ring into the Caribbean Sea, is a land of struggles for freedom.” Look what they have made of us. No! Haiti does not deserve this fate. It is not a matter of chance. This situation we have inherited did not fall from the sky. Nor is it the result of some subterranean forces from hell. This situation is the product of our intellectual, political, and economic elites. Look at the gallery of Haiti's friends: BINUH, CoreGroup, MMSS, Embassies, Consulates, OIF, UNESCO, Friendly Countries, CARICOM, OAS, UN, Neighboring Countries, African Countries, Latin Americans, Anglo-Saxons, European Union, IDB, World Bank. Have you seen how they treated us? Facts for Self-Examination
Haiti, as in the beginning, is alone in the world. Enveloped in its solitude for two centuries, Haiti struggles, a rope around its neck, refusing to give up the ghost. We watch time slip away until our demise. The noose tightens around us. The metropolitan area today is apparently occupied by criminal gangs up to more than 90%. What exactly do they want?
A state entirely controlled by gangsters to give free rein to terrorist activities. To transform Haiti into a medical desert so that no one can find healthcare; to close schools, universities, vocational centers so that we return to the Stone Age. Why have we not chosen education?
Not choosing education is a desire to darken minds. A desire for Haiti not to be a miracle. “Haiti, where Negritude stood up for the first time,” to parody Aimé Césaire, must not die. Haiti, Quisqueya or Bohio is a land of myth, epic, and struggles for freedom. And it is through education that the intellectual and moral faculties of this people will be developed so that they improve and manage to break free – through self-examination – from this servitude that pushes us to ignobly turn against ourselves. Look at how today our peasants are driven from our fertile lands! They are expelled with machine-gun fire so that they can no longer put anything in their mouths. Let us remember the homily, in January 1991, by Monsignor François Wolf Ligondé: “If Haitians only think of satisfying their vengeance instead of uniting to save the nurturing land that is going to the sea, in the year 2000 we will eat rocks, and in the year 2004 we will celebrate the second centenary of independence in a desert.” Our people are in danger. Meanwhile, the United Nations has its eyes fixed on its charter and its piles of moldy human rights files. The World, a Playground for the Powerful
Look at how gangs have become masters of diversion. Let's open our eyes to their methods. They maneuver towards the Central Plateau, Mirebalais, in particular, to better rebound in the West, towards Port-au-Prince. Thus they will complete the promised 100 percent loop. “Sa nou wè a se sa.” What we see is what we see. The gangs – who are involved in everything like a plate of spaghetti – are the new mercenaries of current crime. They facilitate things under the guise of gang federations, families, and allies. Their name doesn't matter. The powerful have no allies. They only have servants at their command. The demolishers of the Republic do not know that the powerful like to share the world like a cake. Let us remember that in 1697, by the Treaty of Ryswick, Spain and France had shared the island of Haiti. Every time gangs sow terror and violence, they loudly proclaim their misdeed. They display it. They publish their enormous crime so that no one is unaware. And when they sign with a zest for life what they have orchestrated, they exult: “We do exactly as the White man asks us.” What a striking illustration of the internalization of the master's will through the mouths of his slaves! This confession to whitewash their dark conscience also testifies to the situation of our disoriented elites, incapable of breaking free from the ties that bind them. How can such words cross the lips of the heirs of the valiant warriors who fought at Vertières? The gangs – armed by the children of the people to destroy Haiti – are driven, unknowingly, by the will to be enslaved. They will never know that they are fighting a shameful battle for the reconquest of the country by their masters. Facts and Questions
Lethal weapons and ammunition are pouring in much more than basic foodstuffs that could help families and prevent deaths due to malnutrition. Gangs strip small vendors of their trade; they kill, loot, burn, and rape. They are on a mission. Even our law enforcement dares not arrest them. Do you know of any lost territory in Haiti that has been recovered? Why, when the international community steps up, is it just hot air? Why does this wind blow on our fires? Do you know the best way in the 21st century to exterminate an entire people? Why isolate Haiti from the rest of the world? Since 2021, the year that coincides with the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, on the night of July 6 to 7, 2021, in his residence in Pèlerin 5 not far from Pétion-Ville, all the old demons have been unleashed on our territory. A plot against the country has been masterfully hatched. This time, they have stirred up the marginalized. They have armed our youth, our children from popular neighborhoods; they have promised them mountains and marvels. The ghettos have taken over from foreign occupation forces. They manage to stem the rivers of demonstrators on the concrete better than our law enforcement. The facts being written by our instant historians are linked to antecedents. René Préval, between 1997 and 1998, had already attempted to evacuate the project for the unification of the island, which was to be called “Hispaniola Project” under the Dominican Label. Long before René Préval, we had not yet been explained “this small disorder” committed and confessed by former President Jean Bertrand Aristide. President René Préval, for his part, had skillfully circumvented the plan for the expropriation of the capital, Port-au-Prince, during his second presidential term. Before leaving power in 2011, he had signed a decree to set the machine in motion. Upon coming to power, President Michel Martelly, without encountering the slightest resistance, plunged straight into the established plan that led us to the current ruins. However, everything started there, and no one has yet come to explain to us the details of his many trips around the world during his presidential term between 2011 and 2016. Michel Martelly is one of the Haitian presidents who traveled abroad the most. A true record holder. Between June 2011 and June 2015, he made forty (40) international trips, totaling 1,941 days of absence from the country. These trips incurred significant expenses, with per diems estimated at approximately 3.8 million US dollars. And what did he negotiate during all these trips? Going back through the events, history grips us. The facts are there. Nearly ten (10) thousand people were assassinated between the 1991 coup d'état, which ended in October 1994, and the February 2004 coup d'état, which was followed by a de facto government with a puppet president. Professors, students, many young people with brilliant futures fell in 2004, through the GNB movement. After the spectacular assassination of Jovenel Moïse in July 2021, the decimation machine restarted. The political class, through the current nine (9)-member Transitional Presidential Council (CPT), is simply sounding the death knell. The economic class, for its part, very easily fell into the trap of economic sanctions, which sometimes denounce their direct involvement in cases of organized crime, corruption, money laundering, financing of terrorism, or complicity in heinous assassinations. The latest official statistics from 2024 reveal that our population is estimated at twelve (12) million souls. More than four (4) million reside in the West department. Why this strange focus on Port-au-Prince, the capital?
It is these four (4) million people who are being assassinated, who are being suffocated since 2021, because they are prevented from freely going about their usual occupations. It is also all these departments from North to South and from East to West, meaning more than seven (7) other million inhabitants who are prevented from traveling from their provinces to the capital. Or, from the capital abroad, under the pretext that commercial flights are unsafe in our territory. Our nights, like our days under high tension, are enveloped in darkness. In these wavering moments of doubt, let the flame of patriotism burning within us ignite. “Ayiti pap péri”! Let us not be afraid. We must have the intransigence of this courage rooted in the energy of Vertières to break free from the cycle of misfortune, drama, and catastrophe of a governance capable of generating unhappiness, ill-being, and poverty for the majority. Haiti will be reborn.
Marnatha I. Ternier
May 2025
