The rapacious business leaders in Haiti practice zero sum capitalism just like their political counterparts believes in zero sum politics. All of these zeros leave Haiti with nothing.
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Warped Lens
Haitian Diaspora’s Defense of Guy Philippe is Deeply Misguided
By Garry Pierre-Pierre
Two days after Guy Philippe was arrested in Haiti by Haitian police officers and extradited to Miami on drug charges, I received an email urging Haitians to sign a petition calling on the U.S. State Department to release him to the Haitian authorities. Philippe, who has been wanted by the U.S. Drugs and Enforcement Agency for more than 10 years, was nabbed on Thursday, Jan. 5 outside a radio station in Petion Ville minutes after he gave an interview.
Warped Lens
Trump Presidency Provides Opportunity for Haiti
By Garry Pierre-Pierre
Blaming the United States for the ills that have befallen Haiti has become a parlor game at the villas of the country’s political and economic elite. Any conversation regarding the troubled Caribbean nation of 10 million people inevitably circles back to the mighty neighbor to the North.
Warped Lens
I bet on the Goodness of the American People and I lost
By Garry Pierre-Pierre
In which country did a highly educated, former first lady and senator lose an election to a firebrand, political neophyte, gaudy and raunchy entertainer? No, I am not talking about the United States, it happened in Haiti first in 2011 when Michel J. Martelly defeated, or was selected, president over Myrlande Manigat.
Haiti, Warped Lens
Haiti Needs Another Marshall Plan
By Garry Pierre-Pierre
But the question that no one wants to address is why are natural disasters taking such a huge toll on Haiti. It’s not because we believe in Vodou, or that there is an international conspiracy, or that God is upset at us as I’ve often heard from various folks.
Haiti, Politics, Warped Lens
Let’s Vote for Hillary Clinton and Deal With Her Haiti Misdeeds Tomorrow
By Garry Pierre-Pierre
Enough has been written about Mr. Trump that I don’t want to add to it. Enough said. I urge my fellow Haitian-Americans to go to the ballot tomorrow and cast our vote for Mrs. Clinton. And on Wednesday, the leadership should organize national calls the way we did after the earthquake to rally the troop. We should come up with a set of serious recommendations and put together a task force to follow through and make sure that Mrs. Clinton atones for her mistakes in Haiti.
Warped Lens
To Help Haiti We Must Turn Our Back on It
By Garry Pierre-Pierre
After more than 25 years reporting on Haiti, I am of the belief that for Haiti to change, Haitian Americans have to turn our back toward it. We are abused by Haitians in Haiti, thinking that because we were the lucky ones to have left that we owe them something and we are expected to come to their rescue whenever there is a problem, which is often.
Haiti, Warped Lens
Haitian Government Complicit in Large Death Tolls
By Garry Pierre-Pierre
Haitians for the most part, explain their troubles, challenges and miseries as the will of God. You were in an accident; it was God’s will for you. You lost your job, you got it; God had a plan for you.
That is why we’re often described as resilient. After all, God is greater than man and his power omniscient. You cannot argue with God. Such fatalism does allow us to live under conditions that would create swift and immediate revolution just about in any other country.
Haiti, Politics, Warped Lens
Diaspora Leaders and Haitian Counterparts Bluffing Each Other
By Garry Pierre-Pierre
Last month a delegation of Haitian professionals living outside of Haiti met with Interim-President Jocelerne Privert, and high on the agenda was ways that the Haitian Diaspora could help pay for the upcoming national elections.
Warped Lens
Diverting An Impending Disaster
By Garry Pierre-Pierre
In 2003 I watched in absolute horror as my colleagues and friends in the mainstream media beat a constant drumroll urging the country to go to war with Iraq. The reports were largely based on false information and at times fabrications. But Saddam Hussein was no angel, and few, if any reporters, felt compelled to buck the anti-Hussein mob.