The truth will set you f.... fired.

The Organization of American States (OAS) has removed its special representative in Haiti, the Brazilian Ricardo Seitenfus, a diplomatic source who asked not to be identified said on Saturday, December 25.

The dismissal came after the Swiss newspaper Le Temps published statements in which the diplomat questioned the role of the Mission to the United Nations Stabilization in Haiti (MINUSTAH), in this country since 2004, and the politics of the international community towards the Caribbean nation.

Seitenfus said in the interview posted on December 20 that the United Nations (UN) imposed the presence of its troops in Haiti despite the country not facing a situation of civil war.

"Haiti is not an international threat. We are not in a civil war. Haiti is neither Iraq nor Afghanistan. And yet, the Security Council (UN), for lack of an alternative, imposed the presence of 'blue helmets' since 2004, after the departure of President (Jean-Bertrand Aristide)," the Brazilian said to the journal.

The diplomat, who expected to finish his mandate in the coming months, also said in the interview that the Caribbean country, "on the international stage, is essentially paying for its proximity to the United States. Haiti has been the subject of negative attention from the international system. For the UN, it sought to freeze the power in place and turn Haitians into prisoners in their own island."

"Haitians committed the unacceptable in 1804 (year of independence): a crime of injured pride to a troubled world. The West was then a world of colonialism, slavery and racism whose wealth was based on the holding of conquered lands. So the Haitian revolutionary model scared the big powers," he added.

Seitenfus also examined the role of NGOs in Haiti, particularly after the earthquake of January 12 and said that "the age of the volunteers who arrived after the earthquake was very young and landed in Haiti without any experience. After the earthquake, the quality of aid professionals fell. There is an evil and perverse relationship between the strength of NGOs and the weakness of the Haitian state," the diplomat said.

Besides his post as representative in Haiti, Seitenfus was the OAS delegate before the Interim Commission for the Reconstruction of Haiti (CIRH). The Caribbean nation in January 2010 suffered the greatest tragedy in its history, an earthquake that devastated much of the nation. Moreover, since October Haitians face a cholera outbreak that has killed more than 2,500 people.

— "Brasileiro representante da OEA no Haiti é afastado por críticas", Estadao.com.br

I'm shocked -- shocked, I say -- to hear that MINUSTAH might not be a force for good in Haiti.