Haiti Ambassador on his USA's hubris

Wed, 18 Sep 2024 09:13:02 +0200

bsmall2

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An email from Ryan Grim or Dropsite News got me to look into Daniel Foote on Haiti:

.> It was the arrogance and the hubris that the United States and the international community thought that they could anoint another Haitian leader and be successful. And clearly, they were not successful doing it. Ariel Henry lied to them and accomplished nothing. And Haiti is much worse today, 2 1/2 years after my resignation, than it was when President Jovenel Moise was assassinated in July of '21. Ariel Henry is finished in Haiti. The Haitians do not want him. And if he goes back, he will not survive. And I'm not talking survive as prime minister. I'm talking survive with his heart beating.
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.> "The Haitian state cannot take care of the people that it currently has, and to put thousands or tens of thousands of additional desperate people into that situation is only going to fuel a terrible situation," said Foote. He added that the U.S. routinely urges other countries not to take such measures, which have been called a violation of international law by groups such as Human Rights Watch.
.> The Biden administration disputes Foote's version of events, but a second State Department official, Harold Koh, also resigned in protest over the government's immigration policy. The regulation, known as Title 42, is a border policy decided on by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which has been in place since the COVID-19 pandemic began during the Trump administration.

- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/haiti-migrants-us-daniel-foote-ambassador-nuclear-option-resign/

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Haiti USA foreign policy

Wed, 18 Sep 2024 09:15:07 +0200

bsmall2

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FOOTE: Mary Louise, two weeks ago, nobody cared about Haiti. Now, just because the prime minister has not been able to return and the gangs have closed the airport so he can't return, it's worse. But it's not a hundred times worse. It's not 10 times worse. It's marginally worse. We need to give the Haitians time and space to get this right. And if we don't let them set up political base, we're going to send in a intervening military or security force that could well wind up fighting the very people it's being sent to protect. Let's let the Haitians have a chance to mess up Haiti for once. The international community has messed it up beyond recognition countless times. I guarantee the Haitians mess it up less than the Americans.

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/11/1237665794/an-expert-weighs-in-on-the-crisis-in-haiti

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Wed, 18 Sep 2024 09:19:17 +0200

bsmall2

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Haitian civil society should have the opportunity to come up with their own solution, he said. “Let’s give the Haitians a chance to mess their own country up for once. I’ve seen us do it a number of times,” said Foote, adding that he was involved in the disastrous post-earthquake reconstruction effort. “I know how not to fix Haiti. We’ve done it numerous times. Give them a chance to fix themselves. What’s the worst they can do?”

“They can’t do any worse than the United States and the international community has done, and I guarantee you they’re going to do better because they know their country, and they’re gonna be bought into their own solutions — as opposed to being told what to do by white foreigners.”

https://theintercept.com/2022/10/19/haiti-armed-intervention-dan-foote-interview/
#RyanGrimm with #DanielFoote #USAruinsHaiti #USAruinsHaitiAgain