Protest at OAS Headquarters against Haiti's Repressive, Neoliberal, Undemocratic Government of Jovenel Moise

Yesterday’s protest in front of the headquarter of the Organization of American States to protest that organization’s support for the corrupt, undemocratic and repressive regime of Jovenel Moise in Haiti. Listening to Haitian speakers and others at the rally was extremely informative. One speaker confirmed what I previously had thought to be the case, that Haiti is the only country in history in which the slaves who rose up against their masters took power and ended up running the country. One speaker, Leonardo Flores of Code Pink, detailed how Moise siphoned money off programs to alleviate poverty financed by Venezuela’s PETROCARIBE. Moise then thanked the Venezuelan government by courting favor with Washington by recognizing Venezuela's bogus president Juan Guaidó. That corruption scandal triggered protests, which are now demanding Moise’s exist from power on grounds that his presidential term expired last month.  

 

It’s telling that in front of the OAS’s headquarter is a statue of Queen Isabella I, who initiated the conquest of the Indigenous people of the Americas which nearly decimated their entire population. In addition, she expelled the Jews and Moros from Spain and strengthened the Spanish Inquisition.