HAITI: DISAPPEAR OR REBORN
By E. Ménard Taking full responsibility, I today assume my duties to say aloud what the vast majority thinks in silence. Disappear or Reborn: there is no salvation for Haiti without a major clean sweep. Too many hollow profiteers and opportunists in charge. It will take, to borrow Carl Bouard's poetic expression, 'bleached to the bone.' The time for patching things up is over.
By La Rédaction · Port-au-Prince
· 2 min read · Updated 24 April 2026
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Taking full responsibility, I today assume my duties to say aloud what the vast majority thinks in silence.
Disappear or Reborn: there is no salvation for Haiti without a major clean sweep. Too many hollow profiteers and opportunists in charge. It will take, to borrow Carl Bouard's poetic expression, 'bleached to the bone.' The time for patching things up is over.
Forty years after the collapse of the Duvalier regime, thirty-eight years after the tragedy of Ruelle Vaillant, social progress and sustainable development are still absent in this country where the population is in agony. Sellers of dreams and illusions have forgotten that democracy is not decreed; it is built with democrats and not with the apprentice satraps who proliferate in all decision-making corridors. 2026 marks the end of a cycle, for better or for worse! And the results are very meager… Our Beloved Haiti has plumbed the depths of the unthinkable thanks to the gravediggers in power. It is shameful to be without shame, says Saint Augustine, shame being a mark of humanity. It is a pity that humiliation has never touched the hearts or minds of the renegades who have kidnapped the Republic. Voluntarily stepping down by arranging an orderly departure would be an act of courage from the Transitional Presidential Council. However, the songs coming to us from the Villa d’Accueil do not indicate any civic awareness in these times of moral drought and national distress.
Nevertheless, I recognize in my compatriots of the CPT, despite their divergences of mercantile interests, a great quality: solidarity in evil. The belated tears of the dying peliades seeking the sympathy of their victims, banking on their emotions, are of rare cynicism. Therefore, I invite 'the weak moral remnant' of Haitian society, both domestically and in the diaspora, to a CITIZEN GATHERING to save the Homeland from the imminent political and social cataclysm. Should I repeat Jean-Paul Marat, who declared during the French Revolution that 'the time has come to temporarily organize the despotism of liberty to crush the despotism of kings.' Together, Now! Dr. Emmanuel Ménard
Forty years after the collapse of the Duvalier regime, thirty-eight years after the tragedy of Ruelle Vaillant, social progress and sustainable development are still absent in this country where the population is in agony. Sellers of dreams and illusions have forgotten that democracy is not decreed; it is built with democrats and not with the apprentice satraps who proliferate in all decision-making corridors. 2026 marks the end of a cycle, for better or for worse! And the results are very meager… Our Beloved Haiti has plumbed the depths of the unthinkable thanks to the gravediggers in power. It is shameful to be without shame, says Saint Augustine, shame being a mark of humanity. It is a pity that humiliation has never touched the hearts or minds of the renegades who have kidnapped the Republic. Voluntarily stepping down by arranging an orderly departure would be an act of courage from the Transitional Presidential Council. However, the songs coming to us from the Villa d’Accueil do not indicate any civic awareness in these times of moral drought and national distress.
Nevertheless, I recognize in my compatriots of the CPT, despite their divergences of mercantile interests, a great quality: solidarity in evil. The belated tears of the dying peliades seeking the sympathy of their victims, banking on their emotions, are of rare cynicism. Therefore, I invite 'the weak moral remnant' of Haitian society, both domestically and in the diaspora, to a CITIZEN GATHERING to save the Homeland from the imminent political and social cataclysm. Should I repeat Jean-Paul Marat, who declared during the French Revolution that 'the time has come to temporarily organize the despotism of liberty to crush the despotism of kings.' Together, Now! Dr. Emmanuel Ménard
