From early morning hundreds of Fanmi Lavalas supporters waited for the arrival of Dr. Jean Bertrand Aristide at the Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port au Prince. Photos: ©2021 Teledyol/Patrice Celestin

There’s celebrating in Haiti,
the 2nd Coming of Aristide

At the Airport, new Sali Piblik t-shirts show up

Lavalasien get ready to march a few miles to Aristide's house

2016 campaign posters sjhow that these Haitians are redy for the the upcoming political environment

Lavalas celebrants outside Aristide's house

The Commission for a Haitian Solution met with many political and civil setors

Rene Civil - center

by Randall White and Patrice Célestin

HaitiAction.net - Port au Prince, Haiti — While former Columbian military operatives are running amok in the political landscape of Haiti — "further exacerbating the ongoing political and constitutional crisis plaguing the country" — one would not expect to experience the joyful crowds accompanying Dr. Jean Bertrands Aristide’s second coming ( “Dezyèm retou a” ) Friday, July 16, 2021. Thousands of Aristide supporters were in the streets throughout Haiti, celebrating his 68th birthday, just the day before. It can easily be conjectured that his return was their birthday wish. All-in-all it was the Joyous Resistance, typical of his Fanmi Lavalas supporters.

With hundreds at the Port au Prince airport, all morning, waiting for his arrival, the former President of Haiti cheerfully walked to his ground transport from the plane, which took him to his home a couple miles away in Tabarre. Thus began another happy demonstration as the bands and supporters marched and sang their way to his house where hundreds more were waiting for another celebration of dignity, that wouldn’t quit, outside the front gates to his home complex.

The Lavalasien seem optimistic against the growing frustration of Haiti’s “Morally Repugnant Elite” in the violent internecine struggle between the "Haves" and "Have Mores" (Gwo Poch) that are now calling for another military intervention to disrupt the democratic aspirations of the popular neighborhoods. Voting in a new government was certainly on the minds of many at today's celebration. Many were wearing newish "Sali Piblik" t-shirts with Aristide's picture — a new slogan that is understood by most to mean that Fanmi Lavalas supports a "public salvation" by a transitional government to finally set up fair elections, run by Haiti without the usual interference from the Core Group of coup-supporting countries (which now seems to have included USA's ally, Columbia).

Other happy Lavalasien found a trove of NOS campaign posters from Fanmi Lavalas' 2016 presidential candidate, Dr. Maryse Narcisse — who Aristide actively campaigned for, throughout the country. It is widely thought that the previous two presidential election results did not reflect the expected numbers that were experienced from 1994 to 2002 where the Fanmi Lavalas usually polled with over 70% of the results before the 2004 Coup d'État.

The numbers just did not add up…

Haiti's popular and civil organizations - "We got this"

While the Core Group's media is providing a narrative of chaos in Haiti, that needs an international intervention to stabilize. In reporting background to a key assassination figure, the Miami Herald leads the story with: "Four days before the assassination of Haiti’s president plunged the impoverished nation into chaos…" In the days following the forced removal of Moïse, most Haitians performed their own COVID-style lockdown and stayed off the streets, if anything it was "chaos" before the unelected President was killed.

The country is fairly quiet, right now, and most are expecting that the former "opposition" leaders will caucus and come up with an outline that might lead to rational solutions to end the lack of fair governance. The current leaders of Haiti should, no longer, be referred to as The Opposition.

In fact, today, such a conference is happening at the synchronistically rebuilt Hôtel Montana, just a few miles from the crime scene.

Appropriately named "The Commission for a Haitian Solution" (CRSC) — as decisively opposed to outside intervention — a significant grouping of political organizations are in planning for a more definitive proposal to present three presidential candidates for a transitional consensus government by this July 27 , in ten days. There will be several workshops that will be happening in the ensuing days until then.

All civil organizations and political stakeholders were invited, however, the key parties of the former Chaos didn't show. This sort of "public salvation" is being ignored by the corporate international press who are, most likely, expected to spin the announcements from this coordination. Those outlets were part of the chaotic matrix that was propping up an unelected PHTK regime, with the US Government leading the clown show from 2009. Most notably, having the strategy to "disrupt, disassemble and defeat" — as Obama liked to put it — Fanmi Lavalas' participation in free, fair and open elections. Four years of the Orange Puppet seemed to be karmic retribution for that disruption of Haiti's aspirations.

Some of the figures that are participating: Rene Civil — Emergence Patriotique; Lesly Voltaire — Fanmi Lavalas; Représente Mécène Jean-Louis; Joel Edouard Vorbe — Fanmi Lavalas; Sénateur Patrice Dumont; Duclos Bénisoit — MUTH; Wendy Jean-Pierre — KONBIT: Kervens Chérubin — MOPOD; Jodson Dirogène — Fanmi Lavalas: Thomas Moïse — Coalition Syndicale; Steven Benoit — Entente pour une Transition de Rupture; Edgar Fils — OPL; Joseph Axène — Secteur Démocratique et Populaire; Gérald Exantus —Mouvement Conscientisation pour Sauver Haïti; Dr Gracia Jean-Charles — Pitit Desalin; Dominique Saint-Eloi — CNOHA; Danièle Magloire — Platfòm Organizasyon Feminis: Luckner Bayas; Sabine Manigat and many others.

As we write this the workshops are working. Contrary to the reports by the corporate media, Haitians are not asking for any help or interference

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