The historical debt that the powers prefer to ignore

Analyzing Haiti's institutional instability while ignoring the financial extortion imposed by France after its independence and the continuing unilateral interventions is an exercise in intellectual dishonesty.

Western powers attach austerity conditions to humanitarian aid while ignoring the demands for historical financial reparations made by the Haitian people.

With food inflation at 26% a year and transport collapsing under urban violence, conditional multilateral aid does not resolve the crisis.

Meanwhile, the critical shortage of flour and rice in Port-au-Prince, caused by armed outlaw gangs blocking the roads, calls for the urgent creation of protected community humanitarian corridors.

The interruption of trade in essential foods is driving up food prices in urban markets, plunging thousands of families into extreme destitution.

Restoring security on agricultural routes is essential to allow small farmers to supply urban markets and to halt the popular hunger crisis.

Haiti requires direct historical financial reparations and unconditional support to rebuild its sovereign political and productive institutions.