Original title: It was once the most feared black country in the United States, but it is now worse than Afghanistan
In the past few days, the eyes of the whole world have been focused on the country of Afghanistan, watching the magical dramas that are being staged in this country that has been controlled and ruined by the United States for 20 years.
Twenty years ago, the US government invaded here under the banner of “anti-terrorism”, drove out the Taliban regime here, and declared that it would bring American-style “democratic freedom” to the Afghan people. But today, 20 years later, the United States is withdrawing in embarrassment, while the Taliban have regained power in a fierce siege.
However, what Brother Geng Zhi is talking about today is not Afghanistan, but a country that has received renewed attention due to a terrible earthquake recently.
Because this country is similar to Afghanistan, it has been ruined by the United States for many years. But the difference is that this tragic country is even more lamentable that it was once the country that the United States feared most.
This country is Haiti, which was hit by a magnitude 7.3 earthquake just two days ago, has killed more than 1,200 people, but is about to be hit by a tropical storm.
Yes, this is the Central American country that was once referred to as a “dunghole” by former U.S. President Trump.
But it is not limited to the United States. At the beginning of this year, Ambassador Geng Shuang, the Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations, also angrily denounced this country that has so far refused to recognize the People’s Republic of China and still maintains “diplomatic relations” with Taiwan.
Because in addition to severe natural disasters in this country, there are even more serious man-made disasters. In the words of Geng Shuang: “For a long time, Haitian political factions have been fighting endlessly, politicians have done nothing, abuse of power and corruption have been repeatedly banned, and national governance has almost failed. Haiti is deeply mired in political, economic, social, and humanitarian crises. It seems that the Haitian people I can’t see my future.”
But did you know that such a world feels desperate for it, and only the country that the DPP authorities in Taiwan regards it as an “ally” was “a blockbuster” at the beginning of the 19th century 200 years ago. The “lighthouse nation” in the hearts of the people oppressed by white colonists—especially black Africans—even the United States is terribly afraid of this country.
In 1804, Haiti declared independence. It was the first republic in the world declared by oppressed black slaves after driving away white colonists. It was also the first in the world to declare permanent abolition in the constitution. “Slavery” countries.
Moreover, the country defeated and driven away at the time was the French colonist who was impossibly in Europe because of Napoleon’s administration.
Therefore, the success of Haiti at that time immediately ignited the fire of hope in the hearts of many oppressed blacks and other people of color throughout the American continent, allowing them to see the hope of freedom through resistance and revolution. Public historical and academic data show that after the independence of Haiti, many oppressed blacks in the United States have fled to Haiti, hoping to pursue freedom.
Of course, the independence of Haiti naturally angered the European colonists represented by France at the time, and the United States, which made a lot of money by exploiting black slaves.
Historical data from the official website of the U.S. State Department shows that after the independence of Haiti, the then U.S. President Thomas Jefferson was afraid that the revolutionary fire in Haiti would spread to the U.S., he began to work with the French colonists without any justice at the time. It can be said that the “international society” “isolates” Haiti and prevents European countries and their colonies from conducting any trade transactions with Haiti.
A report by Forbes News in 2017 also showed that Haiti’s independence in 1804 made it a “threat” by the countries that exploited slaves all over the world at the time. These European and American colonial powers, including the United States, united and started. Persecute this nascent black country.
Among them, France, which was unwilling to fail, even used economic blockades and even wars as threats, demanding that Haiti must compensate France for its “losses” during the Haitian independence revolution, and offered a 150 million francs (equivalent to today’s 21 billion US dollars). Sky-high compensation-you know, the price at which the United States bought Louisiana from the French colonists was only one-tenth of the compensation.
As a result, Haiti, which had just gained independence and freedom, had to succumb in order to survive and develop, and was burdened with such a debt that was not “paid off” until 1947, more than a century later, thus completely dragging down the country’s economy. develop.
Later, since human civilization entered the 21st century, some media asked France to return this unequal compensation to Haiti at the current currency exchange rate, but the French government has been refusing to do so.
However, this is only one of the many curses imposed on Haiti by the European and American powers.
You must know that at the time of 1804, advanced revolutionary ideas did not appear in the world. Feudalism, colonialism, imperialism, and greedy capitalism were the mainstream political forms in the world at that time.
Therefore, after independence, Haiti was quickly corroded by these ideologies, except for the father of Haiti, Dusan Louvidul, who was murdered by French colonists by trickery, and those who worked with him to create the first black republic in history The heroes and the black slaves after freedom have changed from dragon slayers who drove out colonists and liberated slaves to dragons riding on their compatriots, and some even became emperors.
This has caused Haiti to fall into a vicious political cycle that continues to this day. Careerists have been constantly fighting for power for their own interests, and even mobilized people of different ethnic groups to fight against each other, and even played with absurd witchcraft.
An American scholar wrote an article in 1995 to count the fate of 35 national leaders in the history of Haiti, and found that only 6 of them completed their term of office safely, while as many as 22 were overthrown, and 2 were assassinated. 1 People committed suicide, 1 person was executed, and 7 people died in office.
In addition, related studies have also found that although Haitian parties seem to have a large number of parties, these parties are actually just tools for careerists to fight for power and do not exist for noble and noble missions.
The continuing turbulent situation in Haiti has also caused the United States, which has continuously risen in the 19th and 20th centuries and aspired to become the world‘s ruler, to have many dirty ideas about this neighboring country.
Chantalle F, a Haitian historian from Florida International University in the United States. Verna introduced in several articles about the history of Haiti that in the mid to late 19th century, the United States, which hoped to become the dominance of the Western Hemisphere, began to intervene in Haiti’s internal affairs through commercial and military channels. Many of the political turmoil in Haiti was the United States. Of interest groups are spending money-driven. Ulysses Grant, then US President, even wanted to annex Haiti.
At the beginning of the 20th century, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sent troops to invade Haiti from 1915 to 1934. Although under the banner of maintaining the stability of Haiti’s political situation and helping Haiti restore its turbulent political and social order, the reality is that Going to the United States is afraid that Germany will take the opportunity to control Haiti.
Later, the United States sent troops to interfere in Haiti’s internal affairs many times, such as in 1994 and 2004. The U.S. intervention in Haiti spanned more than a century, and the Haitian historian Chantalle F. Verna seems to have further aggravated the political turmoil in Haiti.
This also reveals a tragic reality. Although Haiti was independent in order to get rid of the oppression and control of the colonists, the country has always been manipulated by colonists such as the United States. It’s just that before independence, the white people directly controlled them, and after independence, the white people controlled them through their corrupt dignitaries.
Today, Haitians are still struggling with this fate. The lighthouse country that was once independent for the liberation of black slaves has now become a desperate country that allows black people to die in hunger, disease, and turmoil. That’s why, even Chinese diplomats who don’t usually interfere in other countries’ internal affairs can’t look down on Haiti.
What is even more shocking is that many poor people in Haiti really can only rely on “eating soil” to satisfy their hunger.
Naturally, the United States is no longer afraid of this country-even the racists in the United States and the West will use the fate of Haiti to laugh at other blacks, ridiculing them for their “inability to govern a country.”
Of course, in the eyes of Brother Geng, one of the saddest things about Haiti today is that such a country that was established to overthrow (white) colonists has always been with a (Japanese) colonizer as its master. The regime that serves the same becomes “friends.”
I don’t know if the founding father of Haiti knew about this, would he be angry…. Oh forget, his coffin board may have been exploded countless times long ago…
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