“The social and political stability in this country depends today and tomorrow directly on the improvement of living conditions of the population.”

Shortly after the January 12th terrible earthquake that has virtually pulverized the Haitian people legitimate aspirations for better living conditions; politicians and activists have begun to debate about the concepts of national sovereignty, independence, or self-determination. But in a country where people are dying of hunger, misery and disease should they continue to expatiate about these concepts?

We find even members of the press promoting national sovereignty theory. Journalism is different from politic to the extent that a journalist should always try to respect the deontology of the profession and say nothing but the truth. I believe that the concept of national sovereignty national, which has been claiming during the recent protests in Port au Prince against the Preval / Bellerive government, is pure and simple, unrealistic and impossible to implement in a poor country like ours.

Countries that have the monopoly of money, knowledge and technology have always come to impose their hegemony in this global world. Although objective and subjective conditions for a big social and political explosion are met, it is impossible at this time to have a revolution like that of Fidel Castro in Haiti.

That time has completely elapsed. If a country has no money of oil as Venezuela's Hugo Chavez or Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the more realistic approach would be to negotiate frankly with the international community.

The next president will have to deal with huge challenges: jobless workers, a weak economy, landless peasants, threatened by hunger, exhausted by any kind of endemic disease; all this is the daily plight of all those who are surviving on this corner of Hispaniola Island.

In addition to the creation or implementation of better public health policy, education, family planning, agriculture, or economics, the new president will also have to take in account the structural weaknesses of the country. In a general way it should be noted a lack of human resources and the physical infrastructure.

The social and political stability in this country depends today and tomorrow directly on the improvement of living conditions of the population. I must clarify for my readers that I am not opposed to peaceful protests in the streets. The leaders have to know that in this country they cannot always resolve every issue as "the emergency law" in the streets.

The law, that had given full power to President Rene Preval to deal with challenges of rebuilding, was ratified by the parliament that holds a piece of the national sovereignty. The classical theory of the sovereignty national causes an automatic exclusion of "popular sovereignty".

The Executive, consisting of the president of the republic and prime minister, represents the national sovereignty. It is distressing to note that the mass is not yet awake to the proletarian consciousness.

This explains the ease with which, throughout history, demagogues have so easily manipulated this group. The “lumpen” proletariat unfortunately has suffered with the maximum severity of the effects of misery that is the common denominator of its attitudes and behaviors.

The Haitian elite, for its part, is responsible for this bumpy situation. It has too long neglected the education of the people that they have not been placed under the conditions required to benefit today technical progress and innovation.

Some would tell me that the time is not favorable for accusations, because everyone is guilty of a certain level whatsoever. All social forces should get together to profit fully from the international aid.

From Paris to Washington via Ottawa, Brasilia and Caracas, one should not lose sight that members of the international community as well are confronting serous economic dilemmas. Our current problems do not