“Humanity has come to witness the situation in Haiti starting on January 12, but the Haitian crisis did not begin six months ago or even two years ago...but centuries ago”. Thus spoke father Padre Regino Martínez Bretón, a Jesuit, expressing a reflection written six months from the January earthquake, highlighting that the crisis in Haiti, the poorest country in the western hemisphere – an “economic, institutional, political, social and human crisis” – has roots that are far deeper in time. “The crisis began in 1804 and it is now 206 years old. Why? Because groups of slaves abolished slavery and declared themselves free men and women, but the colonizing countries did not recognize this...that is where the political asphyxia of the liberation process of the Haitian people begins” affirms the good father from ‘Solidaridad Fronteriza’, a Jesuit organism that works in collaboration with the Jesuit Service for Refugees and Migrants (SJRM). It should not come as a surprise, then, advises the insightful father Martínez, that six months from the quake “the reconstruction process of what might become the new Haiti has not even begun yet. After having psent millions in water, food, medicines, tents which have just mitigated and softened the problem of hunger, it is now crucial to start building new cities, at least those affected but also the old ones that have not seen any development since 1804, but a process of degradation that in 206 years of republican life has not made it possible to recover”. President René Preval, was good enough to note the Jesuit, said that all of the aid offered by the international community, the government has “only” received USD two billion. “We know of the millions given by France....in the Punta Cana summit alone some USD 11 billion were assembled, but where are these?”. It is difficult to spend six months in a street tent, says the Jesuit, “and now the owners of the occupied lands are appearing forcing the earthquake homeless to leave”. It is necessary to launch a production process right away, “especially agricultural...because if more months pass, the food that should be used for this will be used in buying food”. The situation affects also those who were not directly concerned by the quake – at least 1.2 million are the refugees – “but all of Haiti” which is suffering the “indolence of the authorities”. From Dajabón, to the Dominican border, father Martínez appeals to the authorities and all Haitians such that they make a move, as it were: “may these six months – he concludes – teach us from experience to see how we have acted, what we have done and what we can do from here on for the rebirth, social development and Haiti’s entrance in the filed of technology and communication”.[AB]