It's not just Carel Pedre, it's us Haitians in these difficult times!
By La Rédaction · Port-au-Prince · · 2 min read · Updated 24 April 2026
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A people who still pay, in their flesh, for their foundational audacities, their radical ruptures, their liberties too soon conquered for a world that has never truly forgiven them. One cannot eternally survive outside the country.
One cannot ask a nation to stand tall when it no longer even has the space to dream. We must build a country. Build a country to dream. Build a country to give scope, real scope, to all those Haitians who ask for only one profoundly subversive thing: to live there. With dignity. In their own home. And as long as this possibility remains confiscated, each individual destiny will become a cruel mirror of our collective failure. May Carel use this ordeal as a true initiation to continue to give the best of himself! Yves Lafortune, Miami, December 26, 2025



