Mariategui and Haiti

Jose Carlos Mariategui: An Anthology edited by Vanden and Becker includes a short article by Mariategui on the US Occupation of Haiti. Written at a pivotal moment in 1929, when the international anti-imperialist movement paid attention to Haiti after the Marchaterre Massacre and unrest, the article suggests how one major Latin American Marxist intellectual saw Haiti. Sadly, Mariategui's critique of the venal Haitian interests which supported the violent US occupation remains relevant. Yet the salvation of Haiti will be those who aligned themselves with a new, progressive force of the US, presumably a reference to the international anti-imperialist movement that connected events in Haiti to other parts of the Americas.