Speech of May 18, 2025 for the Liberation of Haiti
By La Rédaction · Port-au-Prince
· 2 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
Haitian people,
Brothers and sisters of Dessalines' sacred land,
The time for lamentation is over, the time for RESISTANCE is now! For too long, our tormentors have changed faces, but never intentions. The colonizer's whip has transformed into murderous diplomacy, predatory agreements, parasitic NGOs, and puppet governments. We are the targets of a new slavery: NEOCOLONIALISM disguised as humanitarian aid. The United States, France, Canada, these imperialist powers of the West that proclaim themselves friends of Haiti, are in reality the architects of our slow destruction. They plot in the shadows to steal our gold, our oil, our wealth, our lands, our coasts, while we starve on the richest soil in the Caribbean! They place puppets, traitors, miserable individuals ready to sell the homeland for a few greenbacks and visas, in power. Today, the 9-person Presidential Transition Council is nothing but a wretched theater financed by foreign entities to keep the people under domination. We say NO!
NO! Haiti is not a playground for Western imperialists. Haiti is a free nation, born in the blood, glory, and dignity of its heroes. The time has come to break our modern chains, to reject the orders of Washington, Ottawa, and Paris, and to take up the torch of revolution.
The Haitian people have never been a submissive people. We are the children of Makandal, Toussaint Louverture, Jean-Jacques Dessalines! Let us unite our forces like the indigenous army of yesterday. Let us organize. Let us mobilize. Let us reclaim the streets, reclaim our land, reclaim our future! This corrupt system must fall. This system that starves, humiliates, violates, and betrays must be dismantled. Haiti will no longer extend its hand to assassins. Haiti wants to speak with its true brothers: Our African brothers like Ibrahim Traoré, Assimi Goïta, Our allies from the South, and also President Vladimir Putin and President Xi Jinping,
— not to change masters, but to build a new sovereignty free from the chains of the West! Haitian people, let us rise!
It's now or never. History calls us again.
The fight has begun. Let everyone take their place! Down with imperialism!
Down with neocolonialism!
Down with betrayal!
Long live the new Haitian revolution!
Long live a free, dignified, and sovereign Haiti! Josué Blaise
National Spokesperson
( GRANAC )
Brothers and sisters of Dessalines' sacred land,
The time for lamentation is over, the time for RESISTANCE is now! For too long, our tormentors have changed faces, but never intentions. The colonizer's whip has transformed into murderous diplomacy, predatory agreements, parasitic NGOs, and puppet governments. We are the targets of a new slavery: NEOCOLONIALISM disguised as humanitarian aid. The United States, France, Canada, these imperialist powers of the West that proclaim themselves friends of Haiti, are in reality the architects of our slow destruction. They plot in the shadows to steal our gold, our oil, our wealth, our lands, our coasts, while we starve on the richest soil in the Caribbean! They place puppets, traitors, miserable individuals ready to sell the homeland for a few greenbacks and visas, in power. Today, the 9-person Presidential Transition Council is nothing but a wretched theater financed by foreign entities to keep the people under domination. We say NO!
NO! Haiti is not a playground for Western imperialists. Haiti is a free nation, born in the blood, glory, and dignity of its heroes. The time has come to break our modern chains, to reject the orders of Washington, Ottawa, and Paris, and to take up the torch of revolution.
The Haitian people have never been a submissive people. We are the children of Makandal, Toussaint Louverture, Jean-Jacques Dessalines! Let us unite our forces like the indigenous army of yesterday. Let us organize. Let us mobilize. Let us reclaim the streets, reclaim our land, reclaim our future! This corrupt system must fall. This system that starves, humiliates, violates, and betrays must be dismantled. Haiti will no longer extend its hand to assassins. Haiti wants to speak with its true brothers: Our African brothers like Ibrahim Traoré, Assimi Goïta, Our allies from the South, and also President Vladimir Putin and President Xi Jinping,
— not to change masters, but to build a new sovereignty free from the chains of the West! Haitian people, let us rise!
It's now or never. History calls us again.
The fight has begun. Let everyone take their place! Down with imperialism!
Down with neocolonialism!
Down with betrayal!
Long live the new Haitian revolution!
Long live a free, dignified, and sovereign Haiti! Josué Blaise
National Spokesperson
( GRANAC )
