Reflection on the situation of Limbé.
Once again, something unthinkable has happened in Haiti. Jean-Claude Duvalier is back. To my knowledge, this may be the first time in modern history that a famous dictator has returned to the country he fled with even some legitimacy. The country is in such disarray that anything different from the current situation, including the contempt or sometimes semi-slavery in the Dominican Republic or even the good old days of an ordered dictatorship, could seem like an opportunity for hope for some ordinary people.
Haitian nationalists in Haiti and abroad, everything we thought impossible has come true. The only thing that is not in sight is the path to progress. Don't you see that the country will never improve until the root cause of its disastrous disaster is removed? Haiti's problem is not Duvalier, nor Cédras, nor Aristide, nor Préval, it is the system which alone is capable of producing this kind of leaders. Can't you see that the system is rotten to the core and needs to be uprooted?
After the shameful spectacle of incompetence that followed the earthquake, after the shameful farce of the current 2010 elections, with the return of Duvalier and then Aristide, it is now time for the diaspora to fully engage politically in Haiti to demand not to beg and obtain without delay and conditions the formal recognition as legitimate Haitians of all those who were born on Haitian soil as well as their children born abroad. It's time to shuffle the whole deck of cards and bring out a new set. It is time to draw up a real new constitution and not just a worthless piece of paper. It's time to end this humiliating joke. It's time for revolution.
We have a nation, not a state. Since in reality there is no Haitian state, let's stop lying to ourselves, talking about national sovereignty and pretending that we can find dignity in this state masquerade. Since we don't have a state, let's build one. Let us build an inclusive Haitian state based on the solid foundations of an open nationality, the full participation of the diaspora in national life and a Haitian federation of 5 autonomous provinces.