While Haiti has been the scene of bloody demonstrations for several weeks, President Jovenel Moïse does not seem to want to give up power.
In Haiti, the crisis is getting worse. It began in May and since August, the country is blocked by the protesters who demand the resignation of the Haitian president.
In Creole, we say "pei loké". Dams cripple all activity. The schoolchildren have not made their return and the shops open a few hours a week. There is a shortage of everything, especially gasoline. And without a generator, there is no electricity, no water either. As a result, patients die on the doorstep of the hospital. The south is hungry.
It is a whole unemployed country that is on strike. People who eat one meal a day find themselves on a diet.
Protesters do not revolt, they believe in the revolution. She is slow and weary. They want the head of Jovenel Moses, a poorly elected and corrupt president. Like the others, hardly more.
Jovenel usually hides. A fortnight ago, he appeared on television, but at two in the morning. He called for dialogue. The opposition opposed a plea of inadmissibility.
Between the ghost and the furious, we are among the living dead. From time to time, police or gangs shoot in the pile. An NGO counted 17 dead and 10 times more injured in September. Unimportant deaths.
Haiti is drowning and the world does not really care. Haitians do not risk landing at Lampedusa. They do not have money like in Hong Kong. They are not even Islamists. There is no ideological front line, as in Venezuela.
It is as if this country was subscribed to misfortune. After slavery, revolution, American occupation, Duvalier, Aristide, the earthquake, Haiti discovers the worst.
Globalization that ignores it. And France who has forgotten it.