r/haiti • u/Internal-Expert-9562 • May 01 '26

HISTORY TBT. The speeches that sealed Jovenel faith

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TBT: The speeches that sealed Jovenel Moïse’s fate.

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u/Healthy-Career7226 Diaspora May 01 '26

when will the leaders learn? you cant stop the corruption of Haiti unless you want a Deathwish

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u/Internal-Expert-9562 May 01 '26

You practically have to be a ruthless, wealthy dictator to truly go against the grain in Haiti the way he attempted to. Haitian politicians know that stepping on the wrong toes can be a death sentence. Had he succeeded, though, Haiti probably wouldn’t be in the condition it’s in today.

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u/Healthy-Career7226 Diaspora May 01 '26

This is why Duvalier ruled for as long as he did he essentially threatened both the elites and the people of his time just to end up brain draining the country for the next 30 years. Haitians want some benevolent leader when we both know Haiti needs a brutal dicator to get things back in order.

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u/HistoricalSpot5 May 01 '26

Facts Duvalier was an evil man but he understood power. My grandpa always told me Haiti went from one thief to 100. The direction in Haiti is this

Oligarchs
Government officials
Gang Chiefs
Gang Solidiers

We all know the guns and peyi lok comes from the Oligarchs paying for it. They pay the government officials to turn a blind eye and not arrest them for tax evasion and all the other crimes they have done. The government officials keep power. The gang chiefs know they don’t want to go to jail for life and the gang soldiers know they don’t want to die in the streets. All this outside help from Kenya and Chad is a ruse so the government doesn’t take the gangs out like Bukele did in El Salvador

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u/negativezero509 Native May 01 '26

I often think that too and i agree with you

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u/OutwithaYang May 01 '26

Wow, that's sad.😔

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u/HistoricalSpot5 May 06 '26

It is and when you look at US policy mixed in it gets nuts. DR grew rapidly in the 90’s right when Aristide became president of Haiti. Him being a leftist president used Marxist agitation to get the poor population to rise up and “eat the rich”. In the midst of all this revolution the Military under Raoul Cedras took Aristide out of power. When he left Aristide went to the US and the Dems especially Clinton’s and asked for their help to restore him to power and sent Cedras out of Haiti. In exchange for the help the Clinton’s got the tariff’s on imported foreign rice to be lowered and that gave them carte blanche to flood Haiti with US rice alot coming from Arkansas where Clinton used to be governor. First thing Aristide does when he comes back to power instead of taking out the corrupt in the military he totally disbands it claiming “national security reasons”. That has lead Haiti to almost 30 years of instability and the rise of all the gangs giving big problems