Jean Jacques Dessalines

After commemorate the death of Jean Jacques Dessalines on this October 17 2019 day, President Jovenel Moise asked the people to use that day as "a day to think, a day for the Haitian people to really understand that the real enemies of the Haitian people are those who do not want them to move forward."

President Jovenel Moise has decided to commemorate the death of Jean-Jacques Dessalines this Thursday this October 17, 2019, despite all the threats made by the opposition in Haiti warning president Jovenel not to step foot outside.

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"Haiti has been kidnapped and taken hostage since 1806 after Jean Jacques Dessalines was assassinated," Haitian senator Jacques Sauveur Jean said Wednesday. "What is being done to the people of Haiti is economic violence."

Former Haitian senator Moise Jean Charles is calling on his followers all over Haiti to lower the blue and red Haitian flag and replace it with the black and red flag which he says it the Dessalines flag.

Gen gwo tansyon nan peyi a LOBEY pwal pete le 17 Octobre. Pawol coup d'ètat, dechoukay mele ak PetroCaribe. Moun yo soti pou fè moun pete kouri kite peyi sa.

If Jean Jacques Dessalines, Petion, Christophe, and Toussaint were waiting for a green light from the international community there would never be a Vertieres, says Lucien Jura, porte parole of the Presidency.

According to Haitian political activist Andre Michel, a major street protest on October 17 is more geared towards the ideals of Jean Jacques Dessalines than going to Pont Rouge bringing flowers to commemorate his death.