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    As Haiti reels from crises, US policy decisions are called into question

    Dessalines Day is a point of pride in Haiti, a time to commemorate the revolutionary hero who defeated Napoleon’s troops, abolished slavery and in 1804 established the first free Black republic. But this year the Oct. 17 holiday played out like political theater of all the woes afflicting the nation. The acting prime minister was headed to speak at the monument marking the spot where ...
    by Joe Mozingo, Los Angeles Times Oct 24, 2021 6 minutes

    Dessalines Day is a point of pride in Haiti, a time to commemorate the revolutionary hero who defeated Napoleon’s troops, abolished slavery and in 1804 established the first free Black republic.

    But this year the Oct. 17 holiday played out like political theater of all the woes afflicting the nation.

    The acting prime minister was headed to speak at the monument marking the spot where Jean-Jacques Dessalines was assassinated just outside the capital, Port-au-Prince, but his convoy was turned back by gunfire.

    In the absence of a government delegation, a police-officer-turned-gang-leader seized control of the ceremonies. Flanked by masked men with assault rifles, Jimmy Cherizier, who goes by the name “Barbecue,” strode to the monument in the white suit and collar of palace officialdom and roused the crowd.

    “Today the time has come where they have the ports and the tax offices,” he shouted. “They are all millionaires. We are sleeping with pigs. This is how the system is.”

    Like dozens of gang bosses in Haiti, Cherizier is a product of the country’s fractious politics, and as has been the

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