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Black Mexicans deported from Mexico to Haiti for "looking like a Haitian"
Posted by hougansydney.com on Monday, April 11, 2016 Under: Human Rights
More than a million people in Mexico are descendants of African slaves and identify themselves as "black", "dark" or "Afro-Mexican," although sometimes they do not have black skin. But beyond the state of Oaxaca, they are little known and community leaders are now warning against possible radical measures to obtain official recognition.
"The police made me sing the national anthem three times because they thought I was not Mexican," said el Chogo Bandeno, a black Mexican singer-songwriter. "I had to list the governors of five states too."
He was visiting the capital, Mexico City, hundreds of miles from his home in southern Mexico, when the police arrested a suspected illegal immigrant.
Fortunately his interpretation of the anthem and knowledge of political leaders convinced the police to let him go, but other Afro-Mexicans not so lucky, were deported to Haiti. "The police insisted that in Mexico there are no black people. Despite having Mexican identification cards on them, they were deported.
The Mexican Embassy in Port-au-Prince has quietly managed the case when the news had finally get its attention. Some of them were able to return, but were offered no apology or compensation, said Lopez.
The Haitian government has not even been made aware of the incidents.
This is not the first incident about black people deported to Haiti. There are many reports of people being deported from the Bahamas, Turkey and Caicos Islands, Jamaica, United States, of course, the Dominican Republic; some were deported for "looking like a Haitian," as is widely practiced in the Dominican Republic; and some are criminals, too dangerous for their own country.
This is a systematic problem that must be addressed by the Haitian government.
The Embassy of Mexico should make a statement to explain why blacks from Mexico are being deported to Haiti solely on the basis of "looking like a Haitian" The Ambassador of Mexico should clarify whether "looking like a Haitian" is a crime in his country.
Mexico has been so adamant in criticizing Donald Trump as a racist for his comments regarding Mexican immigrants in the United States, but have failed to address and acknowledge Its own systematic racism against Mexicans of Afro descent.
Mexican embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
No.48, Rue Metelus, Petion Ville
Port au Prince
Haiti
TELEPHONE (+509) 28 130 089
(+509) 28 130 049
FAX EMAIL embhaiti@sre.gob.mx
embmxhai@yahoo.com embamex.sre.gob.mx/haiti/
OFFICE HOUR 09.00-17.00
CHIEF MISSION: Mr Jose Luis Alvarado Gonzalez, Ambassador
Black Mexicans deported from Mexico to Haiti for "looking like a Haitian"
Posted by hougansydney.com on Monday, April 11, 2016 Under: Human Rights
More than a million people in Mexico are descendants of African slaves and identify themselves as "black", "dark" or "Afro-Mexican," although sometimes they do not have black skin. But beyond the state of Oaxaca, they are little known and community leaders are now warning against possible radical measures to obtain official recognition.
"The police made me sing the national anthem three times because they thought I was not Mexican," said el Chogo Bandeno, a black Mexican singer-songwriter. "I had to list the governors of five states too."
He was visiting the capital, Mexico City, hundreds of miles from his home in southern Mexico, when the police arrested a suspected illegal immigrant.
Fortunately his interpretation of the anthem and knowledge of political leaders convinced the police to let him go, but other Afro-Mexicans not so lucky, were deported to Haiti. "The police insisted that in Mexico there are no black people. Despite having Mexican identification cards on them, they were deported.
The Mexican Embassy in Port-au-Prince has quietly managed the case when the news had finally get its attention. Some of them were able to return, but were offered no apology or compensation, said Lopez.
The Haitian government has not even been made aware of the incidents.
This is not the first incident about black people deported to Haiti. There are many reports of people being deported from the Bahamas, Turkey and Caicos Islands, Jamaica, United States, of course, the Dominican Republic; some were deported for "looking like a Haitian," as is widely practiced in the Dominican Republic; and some are criminals, too dangerous for their own country.
This is a systematic problem that must be addressed by the Haitian government.
The Embassy of Mexico should make a statement to explain why blacks from Mexico are being deported to Haiti solely on the basis of "looking like a Haitian" The Ambassador of Mexico should clarify whether "looking like a Haitian" is a crime in his country.
Mexico has been so adamant in criticizing Donald Trump as a racist for his comments regarding Mexican immigrants in the United States, but have failed to address and acknowledge Its own systematic racism against Mexicans of Afro descent.
Mexican embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
No.48, Rue Metelus, Petion Ville
Port au Prince
Haiti
TELEPHONE (+509) 28 130 089
(+509) 28 130 049
FAX EMAIL embhaiti@sre.gob.mx
embmxhai@yahoo.com embamex.sre.gob.mx/haiti/
OFFICE HOUR 09.00-17.00
CHIEF MISSION: Mr Jose Luis Alvarado Gonzalez, Ambassador
Black Mexicans deported from Mexico to Haiti for "looking like a Haitian"
Black Mexicans deported from Mexico to Haiti for "looking like a Haitian"
Posted by hougansydney.com on Monday, April 11, 2016 Under: Human Rights
More than a million people in Mexico are descendants of African slaves and identify themselves as "black", "dark" or "Afro-Mexican," although sometimes they do not have black skin. But beyond the state of Oaxaca, they are little known and community leaders are now warning against possible radical measures to obtain official recognition.
"The police made me sing the national anthem three times because they thought I was not Mexican," said el Chogo Bandeno, a black Mexican singer-songwriter. "I had to list the governors of five states too."
He was visiting the capital, Mexico City, hundreds of miles from his home in southern Mexico, when the police arrested a suspected illegal immigrant.
Fortunately his interpretation of the anthem and knowledge of political leaders convinced the police to let him go, but other Afro-Mexicans not so lucky, were deported to Haiti. "The police insisted that in Mexico there are no black people. Despite having Mexican identification cards on them, they were deported.
The Mexican Embassy in Port-au-Prince has quietly managed the case when the news had finally get its attention. Some of them were able to return, but were offered no apology or compensation, said Lopez.
The Haitian government has not even been made aware of the incidents.
This is not the first incident about black people deported to Haiti. There are many reports of people being deported from the Bahamas, Turkey and Caicos Islands, Jamaica, United States, of course, the Dominican Republic; some were deported for "looking like a Haitian," as is widely practiced in the Dominican Republic; and some are criminals, too dangerous for their own country.
This is a systematic problem that must be addressed by the Haitian government.
The Embassy of Mexico should make a statement to explain why blacks from Mexico are being deported to Haiti solely on the basis of "looking like a Haitian" The Ambassador of Mexico should clarify whether "looking like a Haitian" is a crime in his country.
Mexico has been so adamant in criticizing Donald Trump as a racist for his comments regarding Mexican immigrants in the United States, but have failed to address and acknowledge Its own systematic racism against Mexicans of Afro descent.
Mexican embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
No.48, Rue Metelus, Petion Ville
Port au Prince
Haiti
TELEPHONE (+509) 28 130 089
(+509) 28 130 049
FAX EMAIL embhaiti@sre.gob.mx
embmxhai@yahoo.com embamex.sre.gob.mx/haiti/
OFFICE HOUR 09.00-17.00
CHIEF MISSION: Mr Jose Luis Alvarado Gonzalez, Ambassador
Black Mexicans deported from Mexico to Haiti for "looking like a Haitian"
Tell me this shyt is fake...
Tell me this shyt is fake...
I don't think it's fake, there are mad Black Mexicans who complain about being stopped by the police and accused of being illegal Brazilian/Colombian/Haitian immigrants. Take them out the census for decades, promote the fukk out of the "we're all mestizo" narrative and that's what you get, most people in Mexico don't even know they exist and when they encounter them they assume they're from somewhere else.
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The Shining Stars of the Puerto Rico to Come
SEPTEMBER 20, 2016
by GUILLERMO R. GIL
In the month following her historic gold medal winning performance at the Olympics, Puerto Rican tennis star Mónica Puig landed sponsorship deals with AT&T and Dodge. Judging from the number of billboards congratulating her for her victory and paid for by a host of local and multinational corporations, she will surely be popping up in a bevy of ads in the months to come. Who knows? She might even get one or two of the sponsors that have dropped NFL players this month for their reluctance to stand during the playing of the National Anthem in protest of police violence against African American communities.
I’m kidding, of course. Puig’s ads—I think—only run in the Island, where people have been refusing to stand for the playing of the U.S. National Anthem for well over a century now. This, by the way, is reason enough for oppositional, social justice-oriented efforts and campaigns on the Island to establish working and caring links with the Black Lives Matter movement on the mainland. Another reason is that Afro-Puerto Rican people’s lives are threatened in a similar way by the Puerto Rican police and the justice system in general. Yet another is that Puerto Rico’s historic reluctance to broach systemic racial discrimination could only be analyzed, attacked and overturned by a radical, on-the-street and complex movement such as Black Lives Matter.
What all this has to do with Puig and her historic win is sketchy at best. Puig, after all, is white. At least by Island standards. And what has made her matter so much over the last month is that she did not kneel to higher-ranked competition in the biggest international stage, where she made Puerto Rico visible to all, by standing proud and strong during the playing of the Island’s own National Anthem. Thus, the telling of her story, newspaper column after newspaper column, has taken the form of a lesson in morality for the Island’s ‘unruly’ and ‘wayward’ masses: visibility through hard work; visibility through discipline; visibility through sacrifice; visibility through grace and elegance [and whiteness]; visibility through [uncomplicated, unquestioned and unrelenting] pride in ‘who we are.’ Which, translated from the sports arena into the realm of the political, is a hell of recipe for compliance in times of induced precarity and increasing austerity measures.
Thus, in this context, I cannot help but tune in to watch her play, hoping she ‘pulls a Kaepernick’ of some sort and complicates the terms of her visibility. But, until she does, there’s Épico and Primo,The Shining Stars of Word Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). Billed as heels [wrestling speak for villains], their gimmick is that of conmen who, bearing glossy brochures, unsuccessfully attempt to convince the competition and the audience to invest in time shares on the ‘beautiful Island of Puerto Rico.’ The con is predicated not so much on the sellers’ shady character—sure, they cheat to win, but even fan favorites do so from time to time— nor on the mendacity of their claim—who could fault them, really, for calling Puerto Rico a tropical paradise in front of a live audience in Kansas City?—but on the fact that they’re selling damaged goods from a financial and political perspective. After all, the Puerto Rican government is 73 billion dollars in debt and soon to have its day to day operations monitored by a Fiscal Control Board, recently appointed by the President. Hence, the good people of Kansas City would be crazy to take The Shining Stars on their word.
What makes Puerto Rico a bad investment is not made explicit during the wrestling show. Similar to its infamous, stereotypical portrayals of Russian and Arab villains over time, the WWE banks on American audiences’ base level xenophobia and awareness as to why wrestlers from such geographies are to be found suspect. What’s intriguing about Puerto Rico—and Puerto Ricans—as a foreignish enemy is the precise nature of the threat. Russian and Arab wrestlers are bad guys because their respective countries are seen as presenting danger in the form of war and terrorism. The harm they inflict in the ring on an American wrestler represents the real (and imagined) harm that their governments and/or rogue associations are responsible for in the ‘real world.’
The harm that Puerto Ricans could cause is of a different sort. Thus, Épico and Primo do not come to the ring bearing menacing grins. They come to the ring all smiles. With hyacinths in their hands, even. Furthermore, their entrance music and accompanying video package were made to closely resemble those used by the Puerto Rican government in their most recent promotional campaigns to boost tourism. Actually, the Island’s formal branding over the past few years has been “Puerto Rico, the shining star of the Caribbean.” In a way, Épico and Primo—with their flowered patterned shirts, and their ‘olive skin’—resemble cabana boys overstepping their bounds with resort guests. They are there to seduce and to lure the naïve and unsuspecting into certain financial ruin. With every blow landed, an American investor’s bank account is drained. Thus, they have to be defeated if the America is to be made great again in the world marketplace.
This is another form of Puerto Rican visibility today. The anti-Puig way, if you will. Visibility through an assigned (and assumed) foreignness; visibility through stereotype; visibility through threat; visibility through cunning; visibility through eventual defeat. The Shining Stars take center stage so American audiences can boo at them and at the place where so many of them have vacationed or changed planes in or only read about it the financial pages. They certainly do not make history when they step into the ring. Pro wrestling is not actually a sport—let alone an Olympic one— and I would be hard pressed to argue on behalf of such a prejudicial portrayal of two Puerto Rican men. And yet, this is not all that can be said about their performance.
One could also say, for example, that their gimmick is not so much of conmen out to swindle well-meaning Americans out of their savings, but of two Robin Hood-esque type characters on a fund-raising mission for a revolution of sorts. Who knows? Perhaps the first colonial institutions that will fall in the Puerto Rico to come are the resorts. To be occupied by over-stepping cabana boys. ¿Qué no?
SEPTEMBER 20, 2016
by GUILLERMO R. GIL
In the month following her historic gold medal winning performance at the Olympics, Puerto Rican tennis star Mónica Puig landed sponsorship deals with AT&T and Dodge. Judging from the number of billboards congratulating her for her victory and paid for by a host of local and multinational corporations, she will surely be popping up in a bevy of ads in the months to come. Who knows? She might even get one or two of the sponsors that have dropped NFL players this month for their reluctance to stand during the playing of the National Anthem in protest of police violence against African American communities.
I’m kidding, of course. Puig’s ads—I think—only run in the Island, where people have been refusing to stand for the playing of the U.S. National Anthem for well over a century now. This, by the way, is reason enough for oppositional, social justice-oriented efforts and campaigns on the Island to establish working and caring links with the Black Lives Matter movement on the mainland. Another reason is that Afro-Puerto Rican people’s lives are threatened in a similar way by the Puerto Rican police and the justice system in general. Yet another is that Puerto Rico’s historic reluctance to broach systemic racial discrimination could only be analyzed, attacked and overturned by a radical, on-the-street and complex movement such as Black Lives Matter.
What all this has to do with Puig and her historic win is sketchy at best. Puig, after all, is white. At least by Island standards. And what has made her matter so much over the last month is that she did not kneel to higher-ranked competition in the biggest international stage, where she made Puerto Rico visible to all, by standing proud and strong during the playing of the Island’s own National Anthem. Thus, the telling of her story, newspaper column after newspaper column, has taken the form of a lesson in morality for the Island’s ‘unruly’ and ‘wayward’ masses: visibility through hard work; visibility through discipline; visibility through sacrifice; visibility through grace and elegance [and whiteness]; visibility through [uncomplicated, unquestioned and unrelenting] pride in ‘who we are.’ Which, translated from the sports arena into the realm of the political, is a hell of recipe for compliance in times of induced precarity and increasing austerity measures.
Thus, in this context, I cannot help but tune in to watch her play, hoping she ‘pulls a Kaepernick’ of some sort and complicates the terms of her visibility. But, until she does, there’s Épico and Primo,The Shining Stars of Word Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). Billed as heels [wrestling speak for villains], their gimmick is that of conmen who, bearing glossy brochures, unsuccessfully attempt to convince the competition and the audience to invest in time shares on the ‘beautiful Island of Puerto Rico.’ The con is predicated not so much on the sellers’ shady character—sure, they cheat to win, but even fan favorites do so from time to time— nor on the mendacity of their claim—who could fault them, really, for calling Puerto Rico a tropical paradise in front of a live audience in Kansas City?—but on the fact that they’re selling damaged goods from a financial and political perspective. After all, the Puerto Rican government is 73 billion dollars in debt and soon to have its day to day operations monitored by a Fiscal Control Board, recently appointed by the President. Hence, the good people of Kansas City would be crazy to take The Shining Stars on their word.
What makes Puerto Rico a bad investment is not made explicit during the wrestling show. Similar to its infamous, stereotypical portrayals of Russian and Arab villains over time, the WWE banks on American audiences’ base level xenophobia and awareness as to why wrestlers from such geographies are to be found suspect. What’s intriguing about Puerto Rico—and Puerto Ricans—as a foreignish enemy is the precise nature of the threat. Russian and Arab wrestlers are bad guys because their respective countries are seen as presenting danger in the form of war and terrorism. The harm they inflict in the ring on an American wrestler represents the real (and imagined) harm that their governments and/or rogue associations are responsible for in the ‘real world.’
The harm that Puerto Ricans could cause is of a different sort. Thus, Épico and Primo do not come to the ring bearing menacing grins. They come to the ring all smiles. With hyacinths in their hands, even. Furthermore, their entrance music and accompanying video package were made to closely resemble those used by the Puerto Rican government in their most recent promotional campaigns to boost tourism. Actually, the Island’s formal branding over the past few years has been “Puerto Rico, the shining star of the Caribbean.” In a way, Épico and Primo—with their flowered patterned shirts, and their ‘olive skin’—resemble cabana boys overstepping their bounds with resort guests. They are there to seduce and to lure the naïve and unsuspecting into certain financial ruin. With every blow landed, an American investor’s bank account is drained. Thus, they have to be defeated if the America is to be made great again in the world marketplace.
This is another form of Puerto Rican visibility today. The anti-Puig way, if you will. Visibility through an assigned (and assumed) foreignness; visibility through stereotype; visibility through threat; visibility through cunning; visibility through eventual defeat. The Shining Stars take center stage so American audiences can boo at them and at the place where so many of them have vacationed or changed planes in or only read about it the financial pages. They certainly do not make history when they step into the ring. Pro wrestling is not actually a sport—let alone an Olympic one— and I would be hard pressed to argue on behalf of such a prejudicial portrayal of two Puerto Rican men. And yet, this is not all that can be said about their performance.
One could also say, for example, that their gimmick is not so much of conmen out to swindle well-meaning Americans out of their savings, but of two Robin Hood-esque type characters on a fund-raising mission for a revolution of sorts. Who knows? Perhaps the first colonial institutions that will fall in the Puerto Rico to come are the resorts. To be occupied by over-stepping cabana boys. ¿Qué no?
Why the FBI could be a game-changer for Jamaica
Thursday, September 15, 2016
One of the really interesting announcements coming out of last week’s Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CaPRI) forum titled ‘Dialogues between Democracies’, was that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) will be setting up offices in Jamaica.
Our instinct is to be very supportive of this move for what we think are obvious and compelling reasons. And we are not going to be sidetracked by empty talk about national sovereignty.
Jamaica has expended huge amounts of resources and billions of dollars across various political administrations — money that could have made our education and health systems far better than they are today — with little to show for it in terms of reduced crime, murders in particular.
Some of our best minds have been put in charge of the National Security Ministry, almost to no avail. We speak of people like Messrs K D Knight, Peter Phillips, Trevor MacMillan, Dwight Nelson, and Peter Bunting, among others who brought a certain cerebral capacity to the job.
The only time in recent memory that we have seen a marked drop in murders — that were averaging over 1,000 a year — was after the military-led operation in western Kingston to remove former Tivoli Gardens strongman Christopher “Dudus” Coke in 2010. We are now back to square one.
If we are true to ourselves, we will admit that one of the strongest reasons it has been so difficult to control crime is the enduring nexus between politicians and criminals. In recent years, the criminal enterprise has asserted its independence by growing its connections with drug dealing, gunrunning and extortion.
Besides the politicians, the smallness of the island and our population size make it possible that large numbers of Jamaicans either know or are shielding criminals, sometimes because they are relatives or neighbours, and those who are not are often just too afraid or untrusting of authorities to tell.
In the circumstances, serious crime fighting calls for greater intelligence capacity in our security forces, especially in regard to drug dealing and gunrunning with their international connections.
United States Ambassador to Jamaica Luis G Moreno has assured that the FBI and ATF officers will help to train local personnel.
The ambassador says the ATF is crucial, as it can trace serial numbers and conduct forensic tests on guns coming through the United States and Central America in the nefarious drugs-for-guns trade.
“Having the FBI means that if there is a federal crime committed here which affects both Jamaica and the United States, I don’t have to wait for the office in Miami…to send me agents. Once we have an office here full-time, that guy will go out, train people, and will liaise and exchange information,” Mr Moreno said.
He pointed out that the US has invested and will continue to invest tens of millions of dollars and thousands of man-hours in improving the capabilities of Jamaica’s security forces and the judiciary.
This is help we can do with.
It is a great pity that we don’t have a model akin to the International Monetary Fund programme, which would force us to set our crime fighting house in order in the way we have had to do with our economy.
Why the FBI could be a game-changer for Jamaica - Editorial
People in the comment section saying that they been down there for years already though...
Thursday, September 15, 2016
One of the really interesting announcements coming out of last week’s Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CaPRI) forum titled ‘Dialogues between Democracies’, was that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) will be setting up offices in Jamaica.
Our instinct is to be very supportive of this move for what we think are obvious and compelling reasons. And we are not going to be sidetracked by empty talk about national sovereignty.
Jamaica has expended huge amounts of resources and billions of dollars across various political administrations — money that could have made our education and health systems far better than they are today — with little to show for it in terms of reduced crime, murders in particular.
Some of our best minds have been put in charge of the National Security Ministry, almost to no avail. We speak of people like Messrs K D Knight, Peter Phillips, Trevor MacMillan, Dwight Nelson, and Peter Bunting, among others who brought a certain cerebral capacity to the job.
The only time in recent memory that we have seen a marked drop in murders — that were averaging over 1,000 a year — was after the military-led operation in western Kingston to remove former Tivoli Gardens strongman Christopher “Dudus” Coke in 2010. We are now back to square one.
If we are true to ourselves, we will admit that one of the strongest reasons it has been so difficult to control crime is the enduring nexus between politicians and criminals. In recent years, the criminal enterprise has asserted its independence by growing its connections with drug dealing, gunrunning and extortion.
Besides the politicians, the smallness of the island and our population size make it possible that large numbers of Jamaicans either know or are shielding criminals, sometimes because they are relatives or neighbours, and those who are not are often just too afraid or untrusting of authorities to tell.
In the circumstances, serious crime fighting calls for greater intelligence capacity in our security forces, especially in regard to drug dealing and gunrunning with their international connections.
United States Ambassador to Jamaica Luis G Moreno has assured that the FBI and ATF officers will help to train local personnel.
The ambassador says the ATF is crucial, as it can trace serial numbers and conduct forensic tests on guns coming through the United States and Central America in the nefarious drugs-for-guns trade.
“Having the FBI means that if there is a federal crime committed here which affects both Jamaica and the United States, I don’t have to wait for the office in Miami…to send me agents. Once we have an office here full-time, that guy will go out, train people, and will liaise and exchange information,” Mr Moreno said.
He pointed out that the US has invested and will continue to invest tens of millions of dollars and thousands of man-hours in improving the capabilities of Jamaica’s security forces and the judiciary.
This is help we can do with.
It is a great pity that we don’t have a model akin to the International Monetary Fund programme, which would force us to set our crime fighting house in order in the way we have had to do with our economy.
Why the FBI could be a game-changer for Jamaica - Editorial
People in the comment section saying that they been down there for years already though...
They have been down there for awhile due to the US seeing the island as part of its war on drugsWhy the FBI could be a game-changer for Jamaica
Thursday, September 15, 2016
One of the really interesting announcements coming out of last week’s Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CaPRI) forum titled ‘Dialogues between Democracies’, was that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) will be setting up offices in Jamaica.
Our instinct is to be very supportive of this move for what we think are obvious and compelling reasons. And we are not going to be sidetracked by empty talk about national sovereignty.
Jamaica has expended huge amounts of resources and billions of dollars across various political administrations — money that could have made our education and health systems far better than they are today — with little to show for it in terms of reduced crime, murders in particular.
Some of our best minds have been put in charge of the National Security Ministry, almost to no avail. We speak of people like Messrs K D Knight, Peter Phillips, Trevor MacMillan, Dwight Nelson, and Peter Bunting, among others who brought a certain cerebral capacity to the job.
The only time in recent memory that we have seen a marked drop in murders — that were averaging over 1,000 a year — was after the military-led operation in western Kingston to remove former Tivoli Gardens strongman Christopher “Dudus” Coke in 2010. We are now back to square one.
If we are true to ourselves, we will admit that one of the strongest reasons it has been so difficult to control crime is the enduring nexus between politicians and criminals. In recent years, the criminal enterprise has asserted its independence by growing its connections with drug dealing, gunrunning and extortion.
Besides the politicians, the smallness of the island and our population size make it possible that large numbers of Jamaicans either know or are shielding criminals, sometimes because they are relatives or neighbours, and those who are not are often just too afraid or untrusting of authorities to tell.
In the circumstances, serious crime fighting calls for greater intelligence capacity in our security forces, especially in regard to drug dealing and gunrunning with their international connections.
United States Ambassador to Jamaica Luis G Moreno has assured that the FBI and ATF officers will help to train local personnel.
The ambassador says the ATF is crucial, as it can trace serial numbers and conduct forensic tests on guns coming through the United States and Central America in the nefarious drugs-for-guns trade.
“Having the FBI means that if there is a federal crime committed here which affects both Jamaica and the United States, I don’t have to wait for the office in Miami…to send me agents. Once we have an office here full-time, that guy will go out, train people, and will liaise and exchange information,” Mr Moreno said.
He pointed out that the US has invested and will continue to invest tens of millions of dollars and thousands of man-hours in improving the capabilities of Jamaica’s security forces and the judiciary.
This is help we can do with.
It is a great pity that we don’t have a model akin to the International Monetary Fund programme, which would force us to set our crime fighting house in order in the way we have had to do with our economy.
Why the FBI could be a game-changer for Jamaica - Editorial
People in the comment section saying that they been down there for years already though...
CIA been in Jamaica since the 60s
Grind -N- Bone
ᒪᕮGᕮᑎᗪᗩᖇY ᔕᑌᑭᕮᖇ TᕼᑌG
Black Mexicans deported from Mexico to Haiti for "looking like a Haitian"
Posted by hougansydney.com on Monday, April 11, 2016 Under: Human Rights
More than a million people in Mexico are descendants of African slaves and identify themselves as "black", "dark" or "Afro-Mexican," although sometimes they do not have black skin. But beyond the state of Oaxaca, they are little known and community leaders are now warning against possible radical measures to obtain official recognition.
"The police made me sing the national anthem three times because they thought I was not Mexican," said el Chogo Bandeno, a black Mexican singer-songwriter. "I had to list the governors of five states too."
He was visiting the capital, Mexico City, hundreds of miles from his home in southern Mexico, when the police arrested a suspected illegal immigrant.
Fortunately his interpretation of the anthem and knowledge of political leaders convinced the police to let him go, but other Afro-Mexicans not so lucky, were deported to Haiti. "The police insisted that in Mexico there are no black people. Despite having Mexican identification cards on them, they were deported.
The Mexican Embassy in Port-au-Prince has quietly managed the case when the news had finally get its attention. Some of them were able to return, but were offered no apology or compensation, said Lopez.
The Haitian government has not even been made aware of the incidents.
This is not the first incident about black people deported to Haiti. There are many reports of people being deported from the Bahamas, Turkey and Caicos Islands, Jamaica, United States, of course, the Dominican Republic; some were deported for "looking like a Haitian," as is widely practiced in the Dominican Republic; and some are criminals, too dangerous for their own country.
This is a systematic problem that must be addressed by the Haitian government.
The Embassy of Mexico should make a statement to explain why blacks from Mexico are being deported to Haiti solely on the basis of "looking like a Haitian" The Ambassador of Mexico should clarify whether "looking like a Haitian" is a crime in his country.
Mexico has been so adamant in criticizing Donald Trump as a racist for his comments regarding Mexican immigrants in the United States, but have failed to address and acknowledge Its own systematic racism against Mexicans of Afro descent.
Mexican embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
No.48, Rue Metelus, Petion Ville
Port au Prince
Haiti
TELEPHONE (+509) 28 130 089
(+509) 28 130 049
FAX EMAIL embhaiti@sre.gob.mx
embmxhai@yahoo.com embamex.sre.gob.mx/haiti/
OFFICE HOUR 09.00-17.00
CHIEF MISSION: Mr Jose Luis Alvarado Gonzalez, Ambassador
Black Mexicans deported from Mexico to Haiti for "looking like a Haitian"
fukking deplorable.
i think nothing will be down since the Jamaican govt is p*ssy and it'll all be a waste of money
ACCLAIMED HAITIAN-RIGHTS ACTIVIST BACKS TRUMP
Acclaimed Haitian-rights activist backs Trump
For anyone who knows the history of the Clinton's in Africa then you should not be surprised by this.
Acclaimed Haitian-rights activist backs Trump
For anyone who knows the history of the Clinton's in Africa then you should not be surprised by this.
