Paul Haeder, Author

a calvacade of people witnesses after a few hours in Tijuana says it all about the death of us, the dirty dealings of capitalists, and the struggle, man, la lucha, Little Haiti!

I met Mari, from Haiti, selling oranges on the street, near the central plaza, downtown, Tijuana. I had just left the big church, with the Virgin of Guadalupe in tile way above the double doors.

Haiti and Mexico. Haiti and fleeing a country toppled by Clintons Types, the French, a few hundred years of hell, a slave rebellion, debts, USA, Spain a few centuries back, and alas, you know about those Democratic Country-USA coups, all of it, and there are hundreds in Tijuana, in a colonia, attempting to get to the land of milk and honey.

She’s been here four months, and she lives with three others in a room, and her Spanish is good, and she had that open face, open to talk, give us directions to another mercado, and there you have it in a nutshell.

As I have repeated — Fuck the USA and may it — politicians, bankers, military, the lot of them, even Ivy League scum, companies — go the way of the dodo.

Over the past two hundred years, the United States has played a important role in the economic and political activity of Haiti, its close neighbor to the south. The United States’ refusal to recognize Haiti as a country for sixty years, trade policies, military occupations, and role in Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s removal from Haiti are little known by Americans, but significant for the development, or rather, lack of development in Haiti. Haiti is the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, and has economic and health statistics comparable to those in Sub-Saharan Africa. A major factor in analyzing the state of Haiti today is its relationship with the United States both now and throughout history.

As I have always said, even having lived in France as a punk with my family, Fuck the French, too:

On April 17, 1825, the French king suddenly changed his mind. He issued a decree stating France would recognize Haitian independence but only at the price of 150 million francs – or around 10 times the amount the U.S. had paid for the Louisiana territory. The sum was meant to compensate the French colonists for their lost revenues from slavery.

Baron de Mackau, whom Charles X sent to deliver the ordinance, arrived in Haiti in July, accompanied by a squadron of 14 brigs of war carrying more than 500 cannons.

Rejection of the ordinance almost certainly meant war. This was not diplomacy. It was extortion. (sources)

Well, you can go down the line of dirt empire racists: French, Portugal, Italy, Dutch, Belgium, Germans, England, USA, Spain, and it all comes out this way for myriad of peoples and cultures and tribes:

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esulting racial wealth gap is no metaphor. In metropolitan France 14.1% of the population lives below the poverty line. In Martinique and Guadeloupe, in contrast, where more than 80% of the population is of African descent, the poverty rates are 38% and 46%, respectively. The poverty rate in Haiti is even more dire at 59%. And whereas the median annual income of a French family is $31,112, it’s only $450 for a Haitian family.

These discrepancies are the concrete consequence of stolen labor from generations of Africans and their descendants. And because the indemnity Haiti paid to France is the first and only time a formerly enslaved people were forced to compensate those who had once enslaved them, Haiti should be at the center of the global movement for reparations.

Yes, Mari, and thousands of Haitians in Tijuana, and the Mexicans I have spoken to love the Haitians, and here we are, the end of Empires, PLEASE:

Little Haiti, City of God: Others had similar stories about their struggles trying to survive in Tijuana.

“We are suffering because we don’t have homes, they won’t give us jobs and much less, we all know we are not wanted in the United States,” said a man named Evans.

The city of Tijuana has said it’s trying to help the Haitian migrants, but there’s not much it can do considering the city is overwhelmed with migrants from all over the world.

And as of now, all the region’s shelters are saturated with migrants and don’t have room for anyone else. (source)

So, the average stupid Democrat and Republican, the lot of them, love the suffering, love their stock options, love their military masturbation tools, love their exceptionalism, love the power of the elite to non-profit exploit the poor into cushy jobbs, or love the punks like Trump of Graham or Crenshaw or Desantis, well, the list is very long for these sponges and leeches and ticks on the American coffers and mindset.

As we say, fuck the rich and fuck the middle class and fuck the fuckers who spend money on lattes and laugh at Costco and wait for their next trip to Cozumel, and fuck the entire system that has turned the world upside down. Haitians I have worked with in Portland, well, let’s see, six language, from a boat builder, a weilder, stuck in Oregon, trying to get a job. SIX languages, while my bosses’ fucking emails read like third grade ESL students’ work.

So, most Mexicans outside of Tijuana know about 10,000 Haitians here, and, here we are — Tijuana and I saw many Haitians here, in the central part of town, outside the church, everywhere.

[Photo: View of “Little Haiti,” a neighborhood of some 40 houses, built for refugee families near the Embajadores de Jesus church, in the suburbs of Tijuana, Mexico on March 11, 2018] (Sources)

Just a few miles north, San Diego, and then Coronado Island, the biggest criminal enterprises, the biggest crime bosses, the US Navy and the SEALS. Every nanosecond of fucked up copy from these leeches and prostitutes called the Press, aka presstitutes, talking about the Dirty *elensky, the dirty Zionists leading him, financing him and advising him, well, I just want to get the provervial bat, and bam, in a dark alley, bye bye, well, Blinker to Yellen to Kagan to Nuland to Soros to, you get the picture.

Well, as we say, Fuck the Governments, the UN, the USA:

To the Mexican government:

• The Mexican Commission for Refugee Assistance (COMAR) should evaluate whether Haiti ought to receive differentiated asylum procedures under the Cartagena Declaration. Conditions in Haiti appear to merit such treatment, which would both provide greater (and appropriate) protection for Haitians and would reduce the time it takes to resolve asylum claims.
• The Mexican government should allow freedom of movement for asylum seekers and migrants. The COMAR should amend its policies to allow for the transfer of asylum claims to other states in Mexico. The National Migration Institute (INM) should provide greater accessibility to obtain a formal permission to leave the state (oficio de salida) to migrants who want to do so. Both the INM and the COMAR should provide Haitians with information regarding where they can obtain shelter and connect with humanitarian organizations in the state to which they travel.
• The COMAR and the INM should hire Haitian translators to ensure that immigration and asylum procedures are carried out in languages Haitians can understand. COMAR and INM staff must receive training on inclusive reception of diverse populations. COMAR and INM must improve interagency coordination through liaison on documentation and transfers. 
• Mexican government oversight organizations should take further steps to ensure the human rights of Haitians are respected. The Ombudsman’s office known as the Centro Nacional de Derechos Humanos (CNDH) should be present at COMAR and INM registration centers and border checkpoints to monitor National Guard and INM practices. The CNDH should issue further precautionary measures to the INM to ensure that Haitians are not subjected to excessive force or other human rights violations and are allowed free movement in the country without racial profiling.  
• The Mexican federal government should provide access to long-term legal status to Haitians beyond refugee status including complementary protection and a pathway from temporary to permanent residency.  
• The INM must ensure that the CURP (Clave Unica de Registro de Población) is provided to humanitarian visa holders, asylum seekers, refugees, and other Haitian residents in Mexico. The CURP, an identification number necessary to conduct most basic activities in Mexico such as opening a bank account or access to healthcare and employment, must be given at the same time as the other documents to allow Haitians to begin working as quickly as possible.  
• The Mexican Federal government should work with the manufacturing sector to facilitate job opportunities for Haitians in northern Mexico. The INM must ensure that Haitians are given information on getting a Mexican tax identification number in order to work in this sector.  

To the U.S. government:

• All Title 42 expulsions to Haiti must cease and asylum processing be restarted at ports of entry. The Biden administration must ensure fair assessment of Haitian asylum claims through training of asylum officers, an updated country condition report, and ensuring access to counsel and interpretation. In the wake of Title 42, Haitian asylum seekers should not be forced to prepare their cases from immigration detention or wait for their hearings in Mexico.
• Redesignate Haiti for temporary protected status (TPS) to extend the eligibility date for protection against deportation to those currently with TPS and to those who have arrived since July 29, 2021, given that conditions in Haiti have worsened since then. 
• The United States should prioritize resettlement of Haitians from third countries in the Americas and create additional protection pathways and complementary pathways to the United States from Haiti. These should include use of humanitarian parole for those harmed in the Del Rio encampment, families expelled either since the September 16 district court ruling or the March 4 court of appeals decision outlawing expulsions of those likely to be persecuted or tortured, and all those expelled after the CDC announced, on April 1, 2022, plans to terminate Title 42 on May 23. 
• Within new asylum border procedures that have been announced, if Haitians specify alternative removal to Brazil or Chile should they be denied asylum, DHS should facilitate removal to those countries only if asylum is denied and after appeals are exhausted. This avoids removals from the United States without assessment of individual cases and allows for coordination on migration between countries in the Americas in a way that respects the rights and choices of asylum seekers. No child born to Haitian parents in Brazil or Chile should be removed by U.S. officials to Haiti without DHS proving the child would be safe and better off there and without an assessment of the family’s ability to alternatively be removed to Brazil or Chile, should they so indicate that preference.  

To UN agencies:  

• The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) should prioritize analysis of the international protection needs of Haitians. UNHCR should assess conditions on the ground in Haiti and, with other UN agencies, should issue a non-return order for Haiti. The UNHCR’s Quality Assurance Initiative should prepare a country packet on Haiti for the head of the COMAR for consideration of Haitians claims under the Cartagena standards. The UNHCR should also prepare a legal considerations paper clarifying how different kinds of stays in, and ties to, Brazil and Chile should (or should not) affect Haitian asylum claims elsewhere. UNHCR should also monitor the treatment of Haitians at the U.S.-Mexico border and ensure that they are not blocked from accessing territory and effectively seeking asylum.   
• The International Organization for Migration (IOM) should provide technical support to INM for immigration functions and integration of migrants. This support should include training on human rights practices during immigration processing and on carrying out future transfer programs, and assistance for online immigration functions. The IOM should provide more direct cash assistance for humanitarian visa holders as well as legal and technical support to Haitians seeking eligibility for work in Mexico. 
• To facilitate Haitian integration in Mexico, UNHCR and the IOM should work to quickly expand the pilot program for work permits extended to Haitians. They should also broaden the criteria for those who are eligible for the program. UNICEF and UNESCO should work with Mexican schools and hospitals to ensure access for Haitian children to education and healthcare.  
• The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights should prepare a thematic report on human rights of Haitians on the move in the Americas. (sources)

So, I was going to get into the other aspects of Tijuana, of the border, of three million people just south of the stolen territory of Mexico, California, San Diego, a pure example of excess, dirty Military Mafia, the entire scam of land speculation and hateful Americans, whites, wanting their 40 acres and a three car garage and five hundred horse power in the three autos.

You’ll get another one, on a friend and her sister dealing with la migra, the jack-booted INS and ICE, and then Amish in Tijuana getting medical treatments and buying medications for the brotherhood back home in New York, Ohio and Pennsylvannia.

So much in a eight hour period, if one just fucking stops, asks, listens and treats human beings like human beings from anothe era, as your compadres and brothers and sisters in arms.

[Photo: The Catedral de Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe, the first catholic church in Tijuana, Mexico]

La Lucha!

Key Takeaways: The Zapatistas

• The Zapatistas, also known as the EZLN, are a political movement made up of indigenous activists from the southern Mexican state of Chiapas.
• The EZLN led an uprising on January 1, 1994 to address the Mexican government’s indifference to the poverty and marginalization of indigenous communities.
• The Zapatistas have inspired many other anti-globalization and anti-capitalist movements around the world.

Legacy

The Zapatistas and the writings of Subcomandante Marcos have had an important influence on anti-globalization, anti-capitalist, and indigenous movements across Latin America and the world. For example, the 1999 Seattle protests during the World Trade Organization meeting and the more recent Occupy movement that was kicked off in 2011 have clear ideological links to the Zapatista movement. In addition, the Zapatistas’ emphasis on gender equality and the fact that many leaders have been women has had an enduring legacy in terms of the empowerment of women of color. Over the years, the dismantling of patriarchy has become a more central goal for the EZLN.

Notwithstanding this impact, the Zapatistas have always insisted that each movement needs to respond to its own communities’ needs, and not simply emulate the methods or goals of the EZLN.

As we say, fuck the MAN. That is , fuck the Fortune 5,000 companies: Sources.

[Photo: Maria de Jesus Patricio, who seeks to be the country’s first indigenous presidential candidate, attends a political meeting at the Hemiciclo to Benito Juarez monument in Mexico City on January 24, 2018.]

Fuck the stupid Americanos, really, fuck them all, the bloody arrested developed fucking dangerous and rabid and recklessly misinformed and miseducated and dead-from-the-neck-up Americanos, Yanquis.

[Photo: Zapatista National Liberation Army leader Subcomandante Marcos (L) smokes a pipe during peace talks on February 24, 1994, in San Cristobal, Chiapas, Mexico.  Omar Torres / Getty Images]

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