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                                          CREDO D’UN ROYALISTE CREOLE                                                                                                      Dans les hauts monts du cœur où le vent se repose, Là montent, pas à pas, les âmes grandes et fières ; Elles n’ont pour tout trésor qu’un regard qui s’expose, Un oui donné sans peur, une main toute entière.   La noblesse, ce n’est ni le marbre ni l’emblème, C’est un serment silencieux qu’on porte en soi : Préférer la justice au confort de soi-même, Et rester droit debout quand tout invite au froid.   Les arrivés sans racines, aux fort...

  The Icon and the Weapons: How Aristide paved the way for Haitian warlords By Patrick Prézeau Stephenson *  (Le Français suit)   Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s place in Haitian history is too important, and too tragic, to be reduced to a feel‑good bullet point in a celebratory listicle. It is true that he emerged as a courageous critic of the Duvalierist order, that he inspired Haiti’s poor, and that he spoke the language of social justice and education. But any honest assessment of his legacy must confront a harder reality: the deliberate dismantling of Haiti’s national army without building a credible security alternative, combined with the systematic arming and politicization of urban youth gangs, helped lay the groundwork for the catastrophic violence and state collapse that defines Haiti today. To celebrate Aristide as a top “influential” Haitian without acknowledging this arc is to confuse influence with positive impact, and to erase the link between his choice...