The leader of Moleghaf, Ezayi Jules, gave an interview to the teleSUR news media in order to address the pretensions of imperialism against his Haitian nation. During his intervention, Jules expressed that "we do not believe in the traditional system that continues to exploit us". teleSUR
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00:00 This suffers from a serious humanitarian and security situation which exacerbates the social instability and poverty caused by centuries of colonial and neo-colonial plunder of development and foreign interventions.
00:11 To update us from the current situation facing that sister Caribbean nation and its struggle for its definitive independence,
00:17 our collaborator Danny Shaw talked with Esai Yules, leader of MoLaGaf, the Movement for Equality and Liberation for Haitians.
00:24 During the conversation, the Haitian social and political activist tells us about the true nature of the so-called gangs and their attacks on the civilian population.
00:32 The so-called gangs are actually paramilitaries that are attacking Solino and Fort National and our neighborhoods.
00:39 There are already estimates that set the number of internal refugees in all Haiti between 300,000 to 500,000 who are suffering from this paramilitary war against the civilian population of Port-au-Prince.
00:50 We want to continue mobilizing against the dictatorship, but the paramilitaries continue attacking us, displacing us, burning our houses.
01:02 They have murdered several relatives of our comrades. It is important to continue mobilizing the neighborhoods against colonialism.
01:10 And now we are facing the threat from Kenya.
01:14 The imperialism wants to use Kenya to invade Haiti with over 1 or 2,000 soldiers.
01:22 And all the weapons that are being used in this war against the population come from the United States.
01:29 In another part of the conversation, Esai referred to the struggle for countries' independence and its present and future challenges.
01:37 We have to dismantle the conventional discourse that has been haunting us, the popular leaders,
01:45 those who have resisted and fought for many years for a total economic and political change in Haiti.
01:54 February 7th is the historical day of the general elections.
02:03 But we haven't had democratic elections since 1990 and 2001.
02:12 We continue to fight for socio-economic demands because we don't believe in the traditional system that continues to exploit and repress us
02:26 in the fields and in the free trade zones where they exploit the cheap labor force.