The Country already has collapsed, what more needs to happen for you guys to stop asking "is Haiti on the brink of collapse?"

I'm tired of the blame game, I want to know what's the next move for the country to pull up itself

"Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining" - Teddy Roosevelt

I feel bad for the women and children. The men are burning that country to the ground.

Haiti is full of non corrupt people and I’m sure that may be the case, but Mr. Hill asked the great question of where are all these people in Haitian leadership. A lot of blame is going to the international community but not much accountability to Haitians themselves.

Thank you Prof Pierre for speaking up and pushing back, this is fantastic. Big up to Monique Clesca for such a brilliant illuminating intervention. Thank you Prof Marc Lamont Hill for great interviewing.

Jovnel Moise put Ariel Henry in power. Not the USA. Haiti needs to stop playing the blame game and take responsibility for their own problems. Missionary Roger Mansour

Every time that so called scholar comes on a interview she keep going backward pointing fingers. She is yet to propose an idea of how best to move forward. I swear she’s a plant for BBQ. She lives abroad and can see how ppl are hungry and suffering in fear but her so called scholar brain fails to propose a solution.

Note to the world, can you stay out of Haitian political affairs. Protect your borders and let them take care of their business. Thanks in advance.

This is the best discussion regarding the issue i have seen.

This Jemima lady should stop interrupting so much. Her passion is understandable, but viewers that want to try and get all perspective should be allowed to listen to all perspective without having those perspective cut-off mid sentence.

That professor is freaking horrible, saying that the people don’t want the help when she’s literally in her safe house or apartment building in Canada meanwhile, in the streets of Haiti, people are being murdered buildings being burned and people starving to death I guess it’s easy enough to say when you’re thousands of miles away

This professor sitting in Canada saying no country should come in to help . Meanwhile people are dying and starving

The so-called scholar is so toxic! She's so obsessed with blame games than offering a solution!

Time for Haitians to stop blaming everyone else but themselves. Western powers also have strong influence over other carribean island nations but we dont see anything near this level of breakdown of law and order in the other islands. Time for Haitians to begin to blame themselves and look inwards to the rootcause of their lawless state.

What's naive is thinking you can march in foreign troops and impose democracy from the outside in. Speaking as a US citizen, I would love to see us pay for ballot boxes, food, water treatment, etc., but I don't want to see a penny go to bullets that will end up in Haitians. We should see them as a sister nation with a history intertwined with our own that we and other colonial powers have repeatedly beaten down. We owe them more than bullets. We owe them the prosperity they need to build a nation state of their own from the ground up.

This was the best discussion about Haiti I've seen in the last month but it really needed to be an hour. I Have been involved with community development groups. The people that make up these type of groups that Monique speaks about tend to have more insight about the issues that face their community [or in this case country] and they tend to create solutions that are more specific to the problems that brought on the crisis. Case in point our group had made a suggestion that would have solved a problem that had existed in our community for 40 years. The new mayor just ignored what the community had suggested and wasted over a million dollars making improvements as he saw fit. After that mayor had to leave office under a legal cloud, the next mayor implemented the community solution. The community solution solved a 40 year old problem. And the area now has increased 10 fold in economic development. I say that to say, it seems that the Haitian people created a solution under the Montana meetings. Yet you had an unelected PM who was imposed on the Country try to force in will - simply as a power play - on the citizenry; and now you have everyone but the Haitians in the Jamaican meeting, thinking they can come in and resolve Haiti's issues by imposing their will over a Haitian group that has proposed a valid plan. The point is, any outside group if forced upon the Haitian people, should only be in place to assist the people in an effort to implement the Montana plan.

Blaming outsiders, denial and a deep lack of acknowledging long-standing internal racial, political, and class strife embedded in an environment of enormous inequality and poverty makes consensual political stability elusive in Haiti; they seem more concerned about parroting historical relics that do not provide solutions for a suffering population in the 21st century.

Very interesting conversation from all 3 highly educated and intelligent women.

The Haitian people are a proud people. These issues will not be resolved in our lifetime.

Professor Pierre thank you so much for your intervention, Monique thank you so and thanks to Marc Lamont . Ayiti ap leve kampe , gen espwa toujou.

What is the solution the lady that keep bringing up the history putting forward? She keep talking about what happened, we know this.

Haiti, the only country in America in PERMANENT chaos and anarchy for 200 years. But is always “someone else fault”. Im glad the world is finally realizing the Haitian mentality issue!

The unfortunate answer is that there is no solution to this problem. It’s too ingrained. It’s too deep.

I wish my US countrymen could understand how we have failed in our responsibility to prevent our government from perpetuating these problems for Haitians. We should be asking how we can help them rebuild, rather than telling how we will reassert our order.

These people like to blame everyone else but themselves for their problems. They had independence for 200 years and yet can’t pull themselves together. If it wasn’t for Haiti being a recurring failed state there wouldn’t be this need for recurring foreign intervention.

Jemina Pierre is simply rude and unprofessional for TV. First, Let people speak before cutting them off. Also, as a native Haitian myself; it is time to realize the population is suffering and we should be open to any alternative than can emerge to a solution. Stop the blaming game. What about we blame the Haitian politicians first, before blaming the so called international community. Each country is working towards their own interest, Haiti interest cannot be vested into the international community agenda before our own elected Haitian officials. That’s politics 101.

Jemima, what is the solution for Haiti?

Why don’t the people on the board step up? Nothing can happen unit order and stability is contained.

15:00 Is Renata saying that she knows it's not possible to do polls right now, that she doesn't know who did it, but she still pulled an 80% figure out of her... hat? She is illustrating Professor Pierrre's point exceedingly well.

There is this Haitian KZfaq host (don't want to mention his name) that just last month was yelling and screaming for the immediate execution of gang members. He particulary had a distaste for the PM Ariel Henry. Now this guy is talking about Viv Guy Phillipe who is allied with the gangs and Viv Baberque, who is a Gang leader ? This is how crazy Haiti is right now.

I would love for Haiti to solve this crisis on their own but that is just not possible and longer it goes on and violent the situation gets it will cause a massive refugee crisis which will lead all of those refugees to the US so we would like a solution that would not trigger massive immigration to the US when we already are dealing with a immigration problem on our southern border.

The solution to the crisis in Haiti is to train young Haitians in our armed forces to protect Haitians.

I find it to be a bit of a red flag when someone tries to interrupt another person's Time of speaking in places like this

USA ,please stay out of Haitia .let them solve their own problem.

No worries South America is going to show how to run a proper government

So if there is no foreign intervention, who will bring security? the police is unable and army is basically non existent.

So the gathering of young optimistic brilliant Haitians and foreign intervention but not from nations that previously intervened? Who who lead the talks since the PM doest have authority? Elections are impossible at the moment so now what. Im honestly confused on their position

Dr. Jemina Pierre has eloquently spoken on the root cause of the problem, and as a fellow Haitian, I agree with everything she said. As long as the former colonial powers keep interfering in our affairs, then Haiti will never break its cycle of instability, and poverty.

Why Haiti began and remains poor (pt 1 of 3). During its colonial days, Haiti’s slave plantations supplied over half of the world’s sugar. But after the slaves gained their freedom from the brutal regime and the country declared independence in 1804, sugar disappeared from the economy as small farms produced coffee, subsistence agriculture, and food for local markets. In 1950, when Haiti was at least producing some sugar, its exports were far behind comparable countries: sugar exports in Puerto Rico were 35 times higher, and in the Dominican Republic exports were 14 times higher. A common explanation for Haiti’s resistance to producing sugar is that Haitian culture rejected the industry because of the associated historical traumas. However Haitians went to the DR, Cuba, even Puerto Rico to harvest sugar cane so there was not much of a cultural stigma towards the sugar industry. A major contributor to Haiti’s failure to restore its sugar economy was historical property rights institutions that created significant transaction costs to starting large-scale farms. 3 post-Independence property rights institutions: (1) a large redistribution of the former French plantations; (2) inheritance patterns on peasant land that gave every family member a veto right to selling it; and (3) a constitutional ban on foreigners owning land in Haiti. But the property rights institutions in Haiti are important because they were not established by colonists; instead, they were created by a newly independent nation in reaction to colonists. These are post-colonial institutions. From 1900 to 1960, sugar accounted for 76 percent of Cuba’s export value, 51 percent of the Dominican Republic’s, 46 percent of Puerto Rico’s, and 26 percent of Jamaica’s. Sugar contributed only 5 percent to Haiti’s exports. Less than 10% of Haiti's sugar production was exported whereas for the other Caribbean countries about 90% was exported. Since 1987 (demise of HASCO) sugar in Haiti has been a cash crop raised by peasants rather than by large-scale plantations. Sugar Exported (Million lbs) ........Haiti....Dom.Rep....P.Rico....Jamaica.....Cuba 1900______1_______150________200_________2_______1,000 1910______1_______250________500_________3_______2,000 1920______2_______300________700________10_______5,000 1930______3_______550______1,000________50_______2,000 1940______4_______700______1,500_______200_______4,500 1950______5_______900______1,600_______400_______7,000 In 2014, on coffee: Country__________________Haiti______Dom.Rep.____Cuba______Jamaica Production (tonnes)______19,500_____13,500______9,000_____1,620 Export (tonnes)_________120______1,020________660_____1,320 Export/Production (%)_______0.6________7.6________7.3______81.5 Population (M)_____________10.4_______10.3_______11.3_______2.8 Area (1000 km^2)___________27.8_______48.7______110.9______11.0

Here’s how they can start: 1. Stop blaming the US & France. 2. Take responsibility for your nightmare nation. 3. Come together and establish a political system with elections just like the DR plp did in the 70s right next door to you.

Wow they really came ready to deal with these international orgs.

Jemima Pierre a classic propagandists as you notice she adds “With guns drawn” as a misnoming pre-qualifier to foreign intervention when that is not even what was being discussed.

Haiti could become a success story like Rwanda if the Haitians get it together. So each politician has his or her own gang and is funded by the West? You need a new breed of politicians who are virtuous and have Haiti at heart. The first country to overthrow slavery 👏

I mean the professor is correct a d naive. The question on the table is what can be done NOW stop the violence. Discussions on systemic harms and their causes don't stop bullets nor feed feed hungry stomachs. She is spot on in identifying the root cause but her emotions are preventing her from identifying an immediate solution...

I have not heard of anything being done about the instigators of this situation, namely, the so- called political elites and financiers! This seems important, in resolving this situatíon.

Exploit and extract what? Haiti should solve their own problems. No help, influence, money, resources, from the world. If you take ppl money it comes with their opinions. Even if the situation devolves into something unthinkable, Haiti/Haitians figure it out for yourself.

In Haiti now, there should not be consensus. We need a strong Government that can establish order with justice so everybody can follow. No need for consensus. Otherwise, you’ll have the same people who have produced the mess in power.

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My respects and admiration for Professor Jemima Pierre. She is the real expert on the origins of Haiti's humanitarian, political and financial crises. Thank you for this interview!

If you speak to Haitians in Haiti. They want foreign support. It’s hard to find people against outside military intervention except activists like the women in video and certain politicians.

God Bless Haiti! Feed the People as Jesus would!

Ma’am get on a plane ✈️ and lead. You setting out side the country in comfort criticizing . You have not proposed a plan to correct the issues of today. You should be ashamed of yourself. My daughters fear for their lives while set in comfort and yelling we don’t want outside intervention. The country is drowning! Gsssh

Jemima Pierre is such an important voice

To suggest what the real problem is will get your comments banned

NO to US intermission in Haiti.

Thanks for such a great show! However those Haitian political experts failed to come up with a solid solution, they’d rather beat around the bush the whole time while my sisters and brothers are being killed over there. With that being said, I understand their point of view ,but in order to stop the bloodshed that’s been going on in Haiti for quite a while now so we do need foreign intervention. We do need to find a solution right now!

It would be useful to understand why the Montana Accord seems to have been forgotten. Elections need to be carried out under appropiate conditions, which require a minimum consensus on a ten year agenda to help Haiti become a sustainable country.

Accountability! They need to start teaching that in Haitian primary schools. Hope my country stays out of this.

Monique and Jemima for the W only 2 who were speaking facts and common sense.

Most likely, those "gangs" are professional, international criminal army that is financed and supported fully by.......

What is the alternative to intervention at this point? Here we have a clear example of a haitien intellectual, living abroad, though in her defense, the local scholars are no better- save Michel Soukar, on a soapbox speaking for the sake of speaking. These points have been made over and over against an intervention. Some novelty is required here; and for all her qualifications and smarts, she offers little but that which is obvious to all. In short there is no intervention currently and the situation is dire, edging on disasterous. Something must be done immediately and obviously haitiens are incapable of resolving the issue on their own. The good Dr.’s lectures make for stimulating discussions in classrooms, but on the ground in haiti, chaos reigns and a greater specter looms… 14:26

The international community put Haiti in the position of needs….

What’s the solution?

When France, United State and Canada ( the UN) asume their responsibilities.

All we hear is opposition to international assistance. Offer the solution already.

What’s happening, the community international only works with the oligarchs of Haiti. The oligarchs of Haiti and the community international are so disconnected with the community needs and lake patriotism. Yes, we need the community international help because there is no tomorrow without them in Haiti- any changes will be short term without them. There are too many assault weapons in circulation. They need to define what they are going to do in Haiti and for how long they will be there.

15:45 the professor from that university in British Columbia is doing Haiti a disservice. How does she expect Haiti to recover from what is going on without outside help? You can be proud but don’t be stupid. Haiti will never become better without outside help. It is a failed state and it will only get worse if the world doesn’t work together to help it. It was the first black nation to free itself but now people only know Haiti as a failed corrupt country. Stop being proud and think of solutions to fix Haiti. The Haitian people will never solve these problems on their own.

The US has to stay out of Haiti.

Someone is sponsoring the gangs….WHO IS IT???!!?🤔

Jemima Pierre is the perfect example of why Haiti will stay poor. All she does is deflect blame and never actually talks about how to solve the problem…

Hear, Hear, Haiti is free, humans are moving to care for them selves. No more colonialist.., !!!

That exactly the problem

As a Dominican we are tired of this situation, our government should start thinking about finding law-abiding Haitian citizens who are looking to establish the rule of law and establish a government of the people and Start arming these folk to fight for their country with Dominican Armed force Aid.

Jemima Pierre - you only talk with no solution meanwhile the Haitian people end up on other people's shores. So of course otherwise will intervene to try and fix the solution.

They need a committee of people formed from each neighborhood to take information from the community and police their own communities with their own citizens. They need a mechanism of reward when they see or know of corruption. For example, you know a leader., police, any person is exploiting their community turn their name in, just a name. Then those that do this receive rewards like free meals, access to earning money, child care etc. once names are gathered a large group of citizens gather outside this person’s dwelling this group, arrest the person as a group. This type of action requires cohesion but can be done. It can get violent but for situations with gangs it gets worse before it gets better. 😢Sometimes it’s enough to target specific individual who are criminal linchpins to knock the breath out of corruption but “community correction” has a critical mass. Haiti’s community will correct itself, sadly it takes hitting the point where the communities band together and root out the disease. This is actually the time when this change can happen. As long as they think 🤔 people will interfere the communities won’t “community correct’. They need to let Haiti correct Haiti! If they love their communities they will ban together as a group that will outnumber any gang, guns and all!

Hati is freeing itself. Just watch ...

That's never going to end, they will never agree to anything...😂

So called international community on my foot 🦶 how can the cause solve the problems 😢😢😢

Voodoo certainly isn't the answer

Politics will always be corrupted.

Everybody trying to see what they can put in their pockets.....nevermind the poor starving people

Why don't u have this debate b/t ADOS and any serious Panafricans (Ncobra Naarc greg carr etc )against lineage based reparations

don't think this convo achieved much but was interesting to hear different perspective 1 was against the force, 1 was for and another was indifferent to it. 1 was saying these gangs are not affecting Americans and they can leave and protect their embassy that is so valuable to them there why the need for intervention this is corruption and exploitation and gangster move by the u.s, france and canada

This imperialist agent Renata Segura is from Colombia. The same Colombia whose mercanieries killed Haitian President Moise.

Sorry Gangs Needs Internationals & Caribbean Countries Leaders Support, For Ending The Violence.The More Is Better.

Jemima Perrie upsets me, we keep blaming others when Haitians are the problems. Haitians are the cause of the majority of the problems not foreigners. And what also bothers me is that there seems be a focus on the political issues in Haiti when the bigger problem is the gang violence and insecurity. We can’t talk about political solutions when people can’t even go outside without being gunned down. How can you vote if you are likely to get killed . There needs to be some type of force for peace and stability before can even talk about political solutions.

the US . France . Canada. should stay far away from Haiti the United Nations too dont send troops supplies Medicine dont send anything . Let them swim or sink nobody can fix Haiti but Haiti any one blaming other countries dont think that Haiti can stand on there own two feet . its going to be tough catastrophic a lot of people will die and be misplaced but they have to go through it . the world community need to step away from Haiti and let them figure it out .

The cause nd foundation of the problem is Italy nd France Paris, America, Napolitano, Napoli, Taranto, Torino, Sardegna, Rome!! '?'? '?'? '?'? '?

It's a fail state LEAVE THEM TO SOLVE THEIR ISSUES ON THEIR OWN!! That's what they've been saying for months

If you want to see the importance of a border wall, google map the border between Haiti and Santo Domingo. One side is devastated and one side is lush. The look up Haiti garbage river on here.

Haiti needs immediately help from a military to stop the gangs.

It's funny that young " National" Thinks she knows what's best but yet what has she done to help her people out? Whatever it is its obvious it's not working. Is she a politician? Have she ever risked her life for her people? Looks like to me she just talks...what type of influence or power does she have? As far as I'm concerned She doesn't know what's best for your people. I bet she's even live there. Probably lives in the states or UK. 😅

Dominican Republic is a reputable country, they value trees. Haiti has destroyed nearly all their forests. So goes the trees, so goes the country. The Dominican Republic should annex Haiti. Or the two should merge as one country. It can be called the Hispaniola/Hispanic Republic, since the island containing the two is Hispaniola.

Who make that cruise in Haiti is the onu because they r giving weapons to the gang if they want to help stop getting weapons they r who have that crisis in Haiti

The U.S. should our corruption out of Haiti and let them run their own county!

This professor Pierre is such a brilliant woman. Calling out Western hypocrisy and their desire to control Haitians.

Haiti has been a disaster for many years! Not a lot of hope there!😢

Seriously this Jemina Pierre person sounds like a woke radical person whose ideas will never solve the problem...always blaming the foreigners, I agree with the other two panelist's idea more. Never heard such a close-minded and arrogant person.

Hail to Jemima Pierre! Such a strong and powerful, eloquent and erudite voice. We need more people like her. And Al Jazeera needs to invite and employ more people like her.