{"id":1568,"date":"2010-12-12T12:02:12","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T12:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2014-03-06T11:22:08","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T16:22:08","slug":"meanwhile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1568","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile"},"content":{"rendered":"

Haiti is just, well, impossible to grasp, especially if the grasping tools are limited to conventional media sources, if you don’t have a lot of historical background, if you don’t speak Haitian Creole (French gets you far enough to think you might<\/i> be able to understand)… Here’s a fragment from a blog (Heart of Haiti<\/a>) that would be worth tracking if one could bear it (via H5N1<\/a>, which I’ve been following for a few years)<\/p>\n

So what is this stability that the foreign powers are trying to impose on Haiti? For the last five years, Pr\u00e9val has imagined himself to be the CEO of a corporation called Haiti. His prot\u00e9g\u00e9 C\u00e9lestin seems to understand Haiti in the same way, if his presidential campaign can be taken as an indication. Haiti is a company that you run. You appear once in a while, as do presidents of corporations, to show off your expensive suits and to remind people of what \u2018success\u2019 looks like. You expect your employees to be well behaved and to work in the interests of the country\/corporation. Their efforts will assure that the CEO is well compensated. Employees\/citizens who do not cooperate are fired from the body politic, \u2018shut out\u2019 in the words of good Unity employees\/candidates. Haiti is a business, a branch plant of the Washington head office.<\/p>\n

That is what Haiti looks like from the company headquarters. However, Haitians see their country as something more than that. Turned upside down, as it was on Wednesday, they show that the CEO serves at their pleasure. (From the Dominican Republic, Preval appears to agree.) And they refuse to be fired from the nation for insubordination.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(extracted from the December 9 posting: The Real Source of Power<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Haiti is just, well, impossible to grasp, especially if the grasping tools are limited to conventional media sources, if you don’t have a lot of historical background, if you don’t speak Haitian Creole (French gets you far enough to think you might be able to understand)… Here’s a fragment from a blog (Heart of Haiti) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-argybargy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2306,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions\/2306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}