Intervenção e poder no Haiti: uma análise decolonial da MINUSTAH (2004-2017)

Abstract

The main purpose of this study is to examine the role of external interventions, specifically the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), which was in force from 2004 to 2017, based on a decolonial analysis, emphasizing the perpetuation of neocolonial structures and structural violence. The question that guides this research is: how did the United Nations (UN) intervention in Haiti reproduce colonial logic through the institutionalization of tutelary practices? This is a qualitative, deductive, and critical study. It is based on a decolonial theoretical framework for investigating the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti between 2004 and 2017. The main sources for this second stage were the UN Security Council resolutions themselves. The results of the study confirm the institutionalization of guardianship by MINUSTAH, perpetuated through the historical containment of Haiti as a revolutionary field. The research shows that the intervention was structured by a racialized logic of liberal peace, using the narrative of a failed state, articulated with the local elite, to deny Haitian sovereignty and self-determination. The evidence indicates the permanence of the modern racialized hierarchy that sustains the logic of external intervention in Haiti. It is concluded that MINUSTAH fully reproduced the logic of coloniality through the institutionalization of guardianship as a mechanism for maintaining Haiti in a position of political, economic, and racial subordination in the international system, which allowed the perpetuation of the external interests of central countries on Haitian soil.