In an article that appeared in The Black Agenda Report Sept. 27, under the headline “Why Haiti Must Follow the Current Political Lead of Francophone Africa,” columnist Pascal Robert recommends that it’s time for Haiti to follow the “political example of French-speaking Africa,” free itself from the grip of U.S., French and Canadian neocolonialists, and “pivot to the East"—toward Russia, China and the BRICS. French-speaking Africans “have understood that France and its NATO allies cannot be trusted,” Robert notes, citing the case of Niger which for decades has been hostage to the CFA franc system. It, and seven other French-speaking African countries realized that they had to break with France and seek allies with Russia and China.
Robert, who is Haitian, points out that Haiti has been denied its sovereignty literally from the time of its independence, suffering one foreign invasion after another, including the current proposal to send Kenya to lead a Multilateral Security Mission (MSM). In the 21st century, Haiti has been dominated by the so-called “Core Group” of Western governments (U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Brazil, the UN and the Organization of American States) which has dictated policy to the country since 2004. Thus, seeking alliances with Russia and China will only seem radical to Westerners “who are so steeped in propaganda they do not realize the number of candidate countries to join the BRICS nations, of which Russia and China are the dominant force.”
