Will the fresh Haitian government include gang members? The situation is even worse: it is possible that a gang coalition will have direct authority in the country.
In Haiti we are just witnessing what the alleged state of dysfunction in the utmost version looks like. Disfunctional, i.e. those in which people face a sad choice: either further governments of corrupt “democratic” elites, or direct governments of gangs, portraying themselves as “progressive”.
On 11 March 2024, Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry resigned in the face of a breakdown in legal and public order in the country. A plan was announced to set up a temporary council, which was entrusted with certain powers of the President, including the right to appoint a temporary Prime Minister. The task of this government will be to organise elections and a capital political reset of the country. But who will be part of the interim council? Since the attack of organized groups on the country's largest prison in Port-au-Prince in early March, in which police officers and prison guards were killed or injured, and about 3.5 1000 prisoners escaped, Haiti has an emergency state.
Jimmy “Barbecue” Chérizier , boss of 1 of the gangs, admitted to attacking the prison and stated that it was an effort to overthrow Henry's rule. The gangs now control 80% of Haiti's capital. erstwhile president Henry went on a abroad trip, the gangs started the siege of the main airport in the country, To prevent him from returning safely. The agreement establishing the interim board indicated that its associate must not be anyone who has been accused or convicted by any judicial authority. However, this condition does not apply to Jimmy Chérizier, whose political ambitions have long been well known and who admitted to organizing the last wave of gang attacks in Port-au-Prince. In 2019, Chérizier stated: “I would never commit a massacre on people of the same social class as me.”
On March 12, 2024, he one more time expressed his intention: “We shall have no 1 to carry out a peaceful revolution. due to the fact that this is not a peaceful revolution. We are starting a bloody revolution in our country."
Chérizier compared himself to Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Che Guevary and Fidel Castro, and even Robin Hood, but neither does she hide her admiration for Francois Duvalier, the right-wing Haitian dictator known as Papa Doc, who ruled the Iron Hand from 1957 to 1971. (It is worth reminding that Duvalier sustained panic with the aid of armed troops, the celebrated Tonton Macoutes).
In his March 11 informing Chérizier stated that the gang alliance known as Viv Ansanm would not recognise any government formed under the pact: "It is the Haitian people who will decide who will lead our country." 1 of Guy Philippe's advisors, erstwhile rebel leader against president Jean-Bertrand Aristide of 2004, who had late returned to Haiti and called for a "revolution" against Henry last month, warnedthat if Philippe's fresh government lacks, his supporters will “burn the city.”
Haiti is an utmost case. For over 200 years he has been punished for successful slave rebellion around 1800. The only ray of hope appeared here decades ago, erstwhile Jean Bertrand Aristide came to power with his organization Lavalas, but as a consequence of the U.S. machinations and local reactionaries they were rapidly removed from the rudders. akin scenarios happen in Ecuador (where gangs openly occupied any urban areas) and in any smaller regions of Mexico, and even in the US: Trump stated that the first thing he would do if he became president again would acquit all convicted attack on Capitol of January 6, 2021.
Of all the gangs behind that attack, the strongest were arrogant Boys – composed exclusively of men Neofascist a combat organisation promoting and practicing Political violence. The group leaders were convicted of opposing the usage of violence, including the constitutional handover of the President's seat. The group was baptized as a street gang and was considered a group terrorist inCanada and New Zealand. arrogant Boys are known for their opposition to the organization left and progressive And they support Trump.
It is besides worth mentioning that Proud Boys there is simply a certain initiation process that involves blankets (candidacy is beaten until it recites various banal facts from pop-culture, e.g. the names of 5 types of breakfast cereals) and making a promise that it will not masturbate (this rule has been modified after any time and now reads: “No heterosexual associate of the Brotherhood will masturbate more than erstwhile a calendar month” and “all members will be restrained from pornography”). These unusual requirements show the request to belong to ordinary, everyday American culture and despise “unmen” sexual behavior.
Such extravagant elements are essential for strengthening and yet winning the gang's power. They function as poetry, as described by Ernst Jünger, a Nazi poputczyk with no enthusiasm, who, like the arrogant Boys, was the pianist purifying effects Military warfare: “Every conflict for power precedes a revision of images and insulting. That is why we request poets: they are the ones who initiate the overthrows that even lead to the overthrow of Titans.” Should it surprise us, then, that erstwhile German Communists began threatening Jünger's safety in 1945, alone Bertolt Brecht He told them, “Leave Jünger alone”?
As we look at the function of criminal gangs in the modern world, there is simply a sad conclusion: Western democracy is becoming little and little applicable even in the developed West. Disfunctional states be not only in the global South, from Somalia to Pakistan, from South Africa approaching the edge of this abyss. If the measurement of the dysfunctional state is the cracks in the walls of the state government building and the increased atmosphere of ideological civilian war, the impasse of gatherings constituting the law and expanding safety in public places, it should be recognised that France, the United Kingdom and even the United States are besides on a simple way to dysfunction.
Jon Elster rightly noted, referring to the trendy "democracy in peril": "We can reverse the universal dictum of democracy in peril and openly admit that democracy is simply a threat, at least in its short word populist form."
Such events give us a taste of what awaits us if Trump wins the election. Let me paraphrase an old GDR joke: Putin, Xi and Trump stand before God and anyone can ask him 1 question. Putin starts: “Tell me, what will happen to Russia in the following decades?” God said: “Russia will gradually start to change into a Chinese colony.” Putin turned and cried. Xi asks the same question: "What is China going to do for decades to come?" God says: “The Chinese economical miracle will come to an end, and China, to survive, will be forced to return to an uncompromising dictatorship and ask Taiwan for help.” Xi turned around and cried. Finally, it's Trump's turn. "And what happens to the US erstwhile I regain power?". God turned around and cried.
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Copyright: task Syndicate, 2024. www.project-syncicate.org. From English she translated Dorota Blabolil-Obrębska.
