Haiti: Nearly a Million People Took to the Streets.They Want the Western-imposed government out of

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A Drug Dealer and Kidnapper in the Palace?

When Youri Latortue worked in the Palace under Aristide and Préval, neither president was comfortable with his presence there and knew he was involved in illegal activities. But they were afraid to act against him. “Among political observers, it is an article of faith that Latortue was involved in drug trafficking under Aristide and during the first Préval administrations,” reported U.S. Ambassador Janet Sanderson in a June 27, 2007 cable to Washington. “Préval himself reports that Latortue ‘ran drugs’ out of his office in the Presidency during Aristide’s mandate.”

Préval said the same thing to Sanderson’s successor, current Ambassador Kenneth Merten, who reported in an Oct. 6, 2009 secret cable that the Haitian president “also expressed concern over the lack of integrity of the president of the Senate Commission on Justice and Security, Senator Youri Latortue, implying ties to the drug trade. He supported his viewpoint by recalling the USG’s [U.S. government’s]alleged refusal to allow Latortue to travel to the United States” in 1995 and 2004.

The U.S. Embassy treated Latortue warily when he returned to Haiti in 2004. The first conflict they had with him was when he took it upon himself to tell “some of the ex-soldiers in Cap-Haïtien” who had taken part in Guy Philippe’s “rebel” force “that they would be admitted into the HNP,” or Haitian National Police. “This raised a red-flag for us and the rest of the international community and was a subject of the Core Group meeting March 12,” reported Sanderson’s predecessor, Ambassador James Foley in a Mar. 15, 2005 cable. The U.S. and its allies went to Prime Minister Gérard Latortue who “made clear this was not the case,” pleasing them with “his public acknowledgment that the HNP was not an automatic option for the ex-FADH.”

Businessman Fritz Mevs told the U.S. Embassy that “Colombian drug-traffickers” were working “with a small cabal of powerful and connected individuals, including Youri Latortue… to create a criminal enterprise that thrives on – and generates – instability.”

Two months later, a prominent member of Haiti’s bourgeoisie, businessman Fritz Mevs, told the U.S. Embassy that “Colombian drug-traffickers” were working “with a small cabal of powerful and connected individuals, including Youri Latortue… to create a criminal enterprise that thrives on – and generates – instability,” Foley wrote in a May 27, 2005 cable. This cabal which included Youri was a “small nexus of drug-dealers and political insiders that control a network of dirty cops and gangs that […] were responsible for committing the kidnappings and murders.”

The Embassy also worried that Youri was beginning to alienate some in the anti-Lavalas coalition that had driven Aristide from power, particularly students. They were starting to distrust the Interim Government of Haiti (IGOH), as the Latortues’ de facto regime was called, because “rumors are rife that the IGOH (and specifically Youri Latortue) is building an ‘intelligence cell’ within the student movement for political ends,” wrote interim Chargé d’Affaires Douglas M. Griffiths in a July 6, 2005 cable.

Washington was also closely watching the emergence of the Artibonite in Action (LAAA), the party Youri Latortue formed in 2005 to run for Senate. “This party may have nefarious sources of income and has already been implicated in gang-related violence in the poorer neighborhoods of Raboteau and Jubilee in Gonaïves,” wrote another interim Chargé d’Affaires Erna Kerst in a Nov. 30, 2005 cable.

As Sanderson took over the Embassy in early 2006, she also echoed that Youri Latortue is “widely believed to be involved in illegal activities,” in a Jun. 16, 2006 cable.

Less than two months later, on Aug. 2, she sent another cable that reported that Edmond Mulet, the chief of the U.N. Mission to Stabilize Haiti (MINUSTAH), was concerned that “drug trafficking has become an increasingly alarming problem, which is difficult to combat, in part because of the drug ties within the Haitian Government,” Sanderson wrote. “In this connection, he mentioned Senate leader Joseph Lambert and Security Commission Chair Youri Latortue — describing the latter as a ‘drug dealer’.”

Arms dealer Joel Deeb also called Latortue “a drug smuggling ‘Kingpin,’ with ‘close ties’ to paramilitary leader Guy Philippe,” Anthony Fenton reported in his ZNet article. “Deeb also said that ‘everybody knows’ about Youri Latortue’s involvement in kidnappings,” which were plaguing Haiti at the time.

THE ARTIBONITE IN ACTION (LAAA), THE PARTY YOURI LATORTUE FORMED IN 2005 TO RUN FOR SENATE, “MAY HAVE NEFARIOUS SOURCES OF INCOME,” WROTE THE U.S. EMBASSY.

“It is also widely known that Youri Latortue and his deputy, Jean-Wener Jacquitte,… are, at the least, funneling money associated with kidnappings,” Fenton continued. “This has been confirmed by sources both in diplomatic circles, as well as sources inside and outside the de facto Haitian government.”

In a September 2006 cable, Sanderson reported that Youri was able “to hire his ‘cronies’ to run customs’ operations in Gonaïves” and, in a November 2006 cable, that Gonaïves Judge Napela Saintil, who had presided over the landmark 2000 Raboteau Massacre trial (at which Youri Latortue “refused to testify”), considered Latortue “his ‘arch enemy’” and “accused a security agent of Latortue’s, Leon Leblanc, of attempting to assassinate him in March, 2004.”

One of Sanderson’s most enlightening cables is that of Nov. 20, 2006. It is based on a Nov. 9 meeting that one of Youri’s close associates (whose name has been removed from this report and the cable posted on WikiLeaks’ site to protect him) had with Embassy political officers or “poloffs.” The colleague “shared with poloffs his concerns regarding Latortue’s illegal or otherwise unsavory activities in the port city of Gonaïves and other areas of the Artibonite,” Sanderson wrote. “Latortue’s family connections play a part in his ability to manipulate the region, as do his close associations with armed gangs and drug traffickers.”

An Ambitious Politician
“The Latortue family is crawling all over Haitian politics,” the man told the Embassy. “Youri’s sister is the former mayor of Gonaïves, and the former delegate to the region was a cousin of his as well. The administration filled Haiti‘s local and municipal offices by presidential appointment during the IGoH. Senator Latortue had influence over these appointments through his relation with IGoH Prime Minister Gerard Latortue, and managed to place members of his party in most positions around the Artibonite. The senator used these people to consolidate his power and influence in the region until the new delegate to the Artibonite appointed new local and regional officials who were not in the back pocket of Senator Latortue.”

The colleague “likened Senator Latortue’s authority in the port city of Gonaïves to that of a mafia boss,” the cable continued. “He claimed that the somewhat lethargic port and the drug and other contraband trafficking taking place there are completely under the Senator’s command. The port in Gonaïves is largely controlled by the Cannibal Army gang, which faces persistent competition from two other gangs, Des Cahos and Jubile Blan. Senator Latortue exerts influence over all three groups and is thus able to maintain sway over dealings in the port. Senator Latortue’s other businesses in Gonaïves include a nightclub and movie theater, both of questionable legitimacy.”

Sanderson also noted that “an oft-disruptive popular organization in St. Marc named ‘Bale Wouze’ recently accused the senator of distributing weapons in an effort to destabilize the government.” Latortue’s colleague “phoned the Embassy on November 16 to reinforce the Bale Wouze accusations, and also to report another incident in which Senator Latortue and friends were stealing telephone poles and utility boxes from Port-au-Prince for use in Gonaïves.”

The colleague described how Youri was a savvy politician. “After the large-scale flooding in the Artibonite in September, the central government allocated emergency food supplies to be distributed to the flood victims,” Sanderson wrote, but “Senator Latortue intercepted the supplies and stashed them temporarily somewhere in Gonaïves, and then took the supplies to the victims and acted as if he was personally responsible for the handouts.”

Part 1

 

[loyola llothta]

“Mafia boss… Drug dealer… Poster-boy for political corruption” : WikiLeaked U.S. Embassy Cables Portray Senator Youri Latortue (2 of 2)

Second of two articles

July 6, 2011

Last week’s installment examined charges that Senator Youri Latortue, whom the U.S. Embassy described in a secret cable as possibly “the most brazenly corrupt of leading Haitian politicians,” was involved in drug trafficking, kidnapping, and other illegal activities. We continue our portrait of this powerful politician through secret U.S. Embassy cables provided to Haïti Liberté by the media organization WikiLeaks.


Latortue vs. Alexis
One of Youri Latortue’s biggest political rivals was then Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis, who also hails from Gonaïves. A colleague of Latortue described how “Senator Latortue paid protestors to demonstrate and cause disruption to the ceremonies” celebrating Gonaïves’ anniversary, which Alexis attended, wrote U.S. Ambassador Janet Sanderson in a Nov. 20, 2006 cable. “Senator Latortue often exploits local gangs for his own purposes in this way.”

Sanderson commented at the end of her cable that “Latortue’s activities are a cause for concern given his presidential ambitions for 2011. Prime Minister Alexis has gone as far as to ask for the USG [U.S. government] to ‘arrest him’, as has Préval’s advisor Bob Manuel.”


The political skirmishing between Alexis and Latortue continued throughout 2007, with the U.S. Embassy following it closely. The biggest row came after “Chief judge for the court of appeals, Hughes St. Pierre, died in Port-au-Prince on April 24 in a traffic accident,” Sanderson reported in a May 15, 2007 cable. The judge was presiding over the La Scierie trial, in which various Aristide government officials and policemen were accused of carrying out a “massacre” in St. Marc, a charge which has since been completely discredited. “St. Pierre, 75 years-old, was getting off a a ‘tap tap’ (a small truck converted for public transport) on the busy Delmas thoroughfare when another vehicle struck him. St. Pierre on April 13 had issued a ruling on a motion to dismiss the charges brought by several La Scierie defendants, declining to make a final decision and asking the examining magistrate in the case to re-examine several witnesses.” Two days after St. Pierre’s death, former Lavalas deputy Amanus Mayette was released by the replacement judge, which “unleashed a torrent of criticism and conspiracy theories from [Lavalas Family] FL opponents,” who argued that “the La Scierie defendants would go free and not reveal the involvement of President Préval and other officials in crimes committed under Aristide.”

Sanderson matter-of-factly commented at the end: “Apart from trying to link the judge’s death to a government conspiracy to absolve the La Scierie defendants, Youri Latortue and his allies in the Senate appear to be using this opportunity to derail justice reform legislation.”

President René Préval with Haitian Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis (right). Credit: Thony Belizaire.


When Alexis met with Sanderson later that May, he said that Latortue’s “parliamentary investigation into the death of [St. Pierre] and calls to remove the justice minister” were simply an “attack […] really directed against him, orchestrated by Youri Latortue,” the ambassador wrote in a May 25, 2007 cable. Alexis “claimed that Latortue had organized the demonstrators who had thrown rocks at him during his visit to Gonaïves… to attend St. Pierre‘s funeral.” Alexis said how even his “supporters among the Gonaïves elite” asked to meet him “outside of Gonaïves, because they did not feel safe holding the meeting in the city” because “the local police force was corrupt and controlled by Latortue.” Sanderson concluded, almost bemusedly, that even the powerful Prime Minister’s “supporters in his own home town were running somewhat scared.”

Five days later, Sanderson wrote Washington that “political observers believe that Senator Youri Latortue is either instigating or encouraging the disturbances” in the northwestern city because “ongoing violence in Gonaïves discredits both the government and MINUSTAH, raising Latortue’s profile as a powerful alternative to the current order.”

She continued: “While Youri Latortue may have become something of a combination boogeyman and pat answer for government officials seeking to explain their failure to improve conditions in Gonaïves, a broad spectrum of contacts with knowledge of the situation almost unanimously believe that Latortue orchestrates an anti-government/anti-MINUSTAH campaign and manipulates the local gangs to his own political ends. Specifically, they charge that Latortue encourages lawlessness in Gonaïves to discredit the government and to bolster his case for the re-establishment of Haiti‘s army, while strengthening his own power base in the region.”

Latortue’s Charm Offensive
The U.S. Embassy was starting to be alarmed at the trouble Latortue was creating – in a Jun. 20, 2007 cable, for example, Chargé d’Affaires Thomas Tighe remarked that Youri was “suspected of supporting, if not participating, in criminal activity.” But perhaps Latortue had some spies of his own in the Embassy who gave him a heads-up about Washington’s growing concern, because he requested a meeting with the Embassy and got it on Jun. 18, 2007.

In a Jun. 27 cable entitled “YOURI LATORTUE REACHES OUT,” Sanderson describes how the Senator “expressed his desire to have better relations with the embassy and expand the reach of his political party” and “explained that he supported forming an army.” She noted that “Latortue’s profile as a leading opponent of the government and future presidential candidate has risen sharply in recent months, even though informed Haitians widely assume that he was involved in drug trafficking and is still directly linked to criminal activity in his home base in the Artibonite.” Alas, she concluded, “Latortue’s influence makes it increasingly difficult for post [the Embassy] to shun him completely, but we will maintain our policy of keeping him at arms length.”

U.S. AMBASSADOR JANET SANDERSON FLAGGED “LATORTUE’S BLATANT POLITICAL AMBITION” AND CALLED HIM “THE POSTER-BOY FOR POLITICAL CORRUPTION IN HAITI.”

Latortue told the Embassy political officer with whom he met that “his goal was to transform his organization [LAAA] from a regional to a national party.”

“Latortue stated that the international community plays a big role in Haitian affairs and that he must reach out to it if he is to be a successful, national political leader,” Sanderson reported. “He claimed to have had good relations with the USEmbassy in the past, but that the relationship soured beginning in 2004. Unprompted, Latortue acknowledged that some people believe he is a drug trafficker. He retorted that these were unsubstantiated claims by his and his ‘uncle’s’ political enemies.”

Latortue’s sucking up to the Embassy appeared to have been rather transparent. “He closed his remarks on his political ambitions by avowing that he has always been, and will continue to be, a friend of the United States” Sanderson wrote. “He said that he receives from Cuba and Venezuela offers to visit, but always declines because these countries ‘do not represent his way of thinking.’ He also claimed to have counseled other government officials and parliamentarians that accepting these offers would appear to be playing off the United States and Venezuela/Cuba against each other.”

Youri also said he favors “an obligatory one year service for 18-20 year olds” in a new Haitian “public security force” that “should number between 1,000-2,000.” (Haiti has tens of thousands of young men in that age group.)

Although Sanderson flagged “Latortue’s blatant political ambition,” she concluded “in Haiti’s see-no-evil -hear-no-evil political culture, many Haitians naturally assume that Latortue will play an increasingly important role in politics as he consolidates his power, and view him as a serious presidential contender, even as he becomes the poster-boy for political corruption in Haiti.”

The Embassy kept collecting many reports from many quarters about Youri’s devilry. For example, one “civil society representative” (whose name is removed for his safety) “believed that Gonaïves suffered from insecurity ‘that was a form of opposition to the GoH’ caused by politically ambitious persons, ‘some of whom should be behind bars, but are seeking office. You know who I am talking about.’” He said that “because of his long established ties with the gangs, Latortue is part of a strong minority able to disrupt events that support Prime Minister Alexis, as seen when demonstrators threw rocks at Alexis during Judge Hugues St. Pierre‘s funeral” and “claimed to know definitely that Latortue is stockpiling arms.”

Youri Wins… for Now
Latortue’s chance to bring down Alexis’ government came in early 2008, when protest and eventually food riots began to sweep Haiti over the high cost of living.

“Senator Youri Latortue immediately pronounced that the ‘government in power has failed,’ and that the people’s ‘patience has limits,’” wrote Sanderson in a Feb. 15, 2008 cable. In sharp contrast to his posture at the U.S. Embassy only eight months earlier, Latortue “accused the government of pursuing ‘neo-liberal’ policies responding to the demands of ‘international financial institutions’ rather than to the needs of the Haitian people.”

Sanderson concluded that “ten percent inflation and sixty percent joblessness have no short-term cures. The cost of living is an issue tailor-made for demagoguery and browbeating the government, which Senator Latortue is spearheading for now.”

In 2009, Michaëlle Jean, then Canada’s Governor General, on a tour of Haiti “skipped the port city of Gonaïves to avoid having to meet Artibonite Senator Youri Latortue (above) who is widely believed to be associated with drug trafficking and thus unable to get a Canadian visa.”


On Apr. 12, 2008, the Haitian Senate ousted Alexis, and it was largely thanks to you-know-who. “Senator Youri Latortue,… who ultimately helped engineer the downfall of PM Alexis, accurately predicted to the Canadian Ambassador Alexis’ fall before it happened,” Sanderson wrote in her Apr. 24, 2008 cable. “It was Senator Latortue who called for the Senate to vote on Alexis’ fate in the April 12 Senate interpellation.”

Ironically, in meetings with the U.S. Embassy three months later, Latortue “put the blame for the April food riots on Fanmi Lavalas elements” saying that they were “organizing the violence.” Sanderson reports in a Jul. 17 cable. (Ironically, during the food riots, the Lavalas Family had a large rally in Cité Soleil seeking to calm the population.)

At that same meeting, Latortue outlined his security program as

“1) expanding Haitian National Police (HNP) coverage of the country…

2) creating a coordinated national intelligence institution;

and 3) establishing an army or a gendarmerie.”

As usual, Sanderson concluded with the usual shrug: “With a shady and possibly criminal past, Latortue is an unavoidable presence in the Senate… Embassy nevertheless remains conscious of Latortue’s shady past (which may well continue into the present) and of his possible drug associations. While Latortue is the most articulate and media-savvy of Senators, his messages to foreign diplomatic interlocutors are carefully tailored around his political agenda. Embassy will continue to maintain discreet, working level contact with Latortue in the interest of gathering information.”

 

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The New Latortue/Martelly Alliance

The Embassy cables in 2009 continue to track Latortue’s political challenge to the Préval camp but also international leeriness of him. For example, a Jan. 23 cable explains that Michaëlle Jean, then Canada’s Governor General, on a tour of Haiti “skipped the port city of Gonaïves to avoid having to meet Artibonite Senator Youri Latortue who is widely believed to be associated with drug trafficking and thus unable to get a Canadian visa.”

Also the Haitian President began to tell the Embassy that he was worried about Latortue’s rise, according to a May 12, 2009 cable. “These were Préval’s first remarks to the Embassy that he views Artibonite Senator Youri Latortue — whose Presidential ambitions are thinly veiled — as a political threat,” it reads.

Ironically, neo-Duvalierists like Youri Latortue and Michel Martelly, with backing from Washington, did end up knocking Préval’s candidate, Jude Célestin, out of the March 2011 Presidential run-off. They now are trying to ram through their pet project of restoring the Army, but as Rouzier’s rejection shows, Haiti, politically, is “tè glisse,” or slippery ground.

Meanwhile, Youri Latortue continues to carry on his business, secure with his parliamentary immunity and his “je sèch,” approach, Kreyòl for bald-face lying. For example on Jun. 14, 2011, he held a book signing for his new title “My Fight in the Parliament,” a self-serving account of his years as Senator. In it, he denounces the Aristide and Préval governments’ failure to carry out judicial reform, the very same reform he worked so hard to block as Chairman of the Senate’s Justice committee, the U.S. Embassy cables show.

In the new book, he also describes how he worked hard in the Parliament to “give the institution another image.”

Best of all, as he signed his new book, Youri Latortue was also signing one of his other titles: “The Problem of Drugs.”

 

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The shining jewel of the Caribbean

 

[Savvir]

yeah....the US dont have power in Haiti but send marines to help the current right wing haitian government they put power in july


Landing of a squad of US Marines in Haiti

SINGLE squad of marines sent to an embassy is not big news....

a single squad can't really do anything other than provide basic security service in a foreign country breh

 

[loyola llothta]

SINGLE squad of marines sent to an embassy is not big news....

a single squad can't really do anything other than provide basic security service in a foreign country breh

learn how to read breh. Clearly you didnt read the OP or the articles

Haiti been under the U.S controlled proxy multi military force occupation for 14+ years with them raping, poisoning and killing the people . U.S already have controlled forces down in Haiti like the last 13 years. The Haitian police force is trained by them and controlled by them with criminal right wing party (PHTK) installed by them

As well as the other Haiti over militarize forces the U.S through the UN (with France and Canada ) build up during the 14+ occupations

PNH (haitian police forces)
DCPJ
SWATT
BLTS
DCPR
APENA
USGPN
BOID
UDMO
BRIZET
BIM Unit

 

[Savvir]

learn how to read breh. Clearly you didnt read the OP or the articles

Haiti been under the U.S controlled proxy multi military force occupation for 14+ years with them raping, poisoning and killing the people . U.S already have controlled forces down in Haiti like the last 13 years. The Haitian police force is trained by them and controlled by them with criminal right wing party (PHTK) installed by them

As well as the other Haiti over militarize forces the U.S through the UN (with France and Canada ) build up during the 14+ occupations

PNH (haitian police forces)
DCPJ
SWATT
BLTS
DCPR
APENA
USGPN
BOID
UDMO
BRIZET
BIM Unit

i was responding to the article you posted as evidence of the U.S. exerting influence.
I stated that the information in that article does not substantiate the claim...

You don't refute my assertion and I'm not refuting the previous articles posted
i'm still reading through to build an opinion on this issue.

 

[LeVraiPapi]

The shining jewel of the Caribbean

Not anymore my brother . not no more

learn how to read breh. Clearly you didnt read the OP or the articles

Haiti been under the U.S controlled proxy multi military force occupation for 14+ years with them raping, poisoning and killing the people . U.S already have controlled forces down in Haiti like the last 13 years. The Haitian police force is trained by them and controlled by them with criminal right wing party (PHTK) installed by them

As well as the other Haiti over militarize forces the U.S through the UN (with France and Canada ) build up during the 14+ occupations

PNH (haitian police forces)
DCPJ
SWATT
BLTS
DCPR
APENA
USGPN
BOID
UDMO
BRIZET
BIM Unit

You forgot CIMO

 

[loyola llothta]

Update 4:

Incredible rooftop shot as events spiraled out of control in Bèl Air, #Haiti after police opened fire outside a church during a funeral for protesters killed by police during #PetroCaribeCorruption demonstrations on Oct. 17.

 

[loyola llothta]

Haiti / Top stories on AlterRadio 106.1 FM - One dead and several injured in clashes between police and protesters

Tension, insecurity, environmental degradation, All Saints and Gede days
Wednesday 31 October 2018

P-au-P., Oct 31, 2018 [AlterPresse] --- Featured on AlterRadio 106.1 FM and online (alterradio.org

A political activist was reportedly killed and several others were shot and wounded in Bel-Air neighborhood, Port-au-Prince, on Wednesday, October 31, 2018, during clashes between police and demonstrators following the funeral. people who had died at the big demonstration of 17 October 2018.

The deputy of the third constituency of Port-au-Prince, Bélizaire Printemps, denounces such acts of violence, perpetrated, he says, by supporters of the power in place against the demonstrators.

Insecurity at the border Ouanaminthe-Dajabon, in the department of North-East: a customs officer shot dead a young taxi-motorcycle driver, following an altercation with it, on the morning of Wednesday, October 31 2018, inform AlterRadio and AlterPresse the justice of the peace of the town, Jean Eugène.

The mayor of Arniquet, in the southern department, Yves Marie Maurice Château, draws the authorities' attention to the disastrous environmental situation of this commune after the recent showers.

Baptist Pastor Clément Joseph invites Christians to respect religious diversity, including the rituals associated with each religious denomination, on the occasion of All Saints Day, November 1st, and the Feast of the Gede , November 2nd.

On the occasion of the feast of gede , the hougan Jean-Marie Robert deplores the unimportance granted to this festival in Haitian society.

On the occasion of the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, on November 2, the UN Secretary-General (UN), the Portuguese Antonio Guterres, calls on governments and the international community to take steps to protect journalists and create the conditions for them to perform their work normally.

These themes are featured on AlterRadio, mainly at our Creole newspaper Vennkatrè, aired at 4:00 am, 5:00 am, noon, 6:00 pm, 10:00 pm and midnight. AlterRadio, on 106.1 FM, alterradio.org, TuneIn, AudioNow and other platforms. [after 31/10/2018 19:00]

 

[loyola llothta]

Oct. 31

 

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[loyola llothta]

Update 5:

Protests at Bernard Mevs hospital in PAP, #Haiti as armed supporters @moisejovenel & police reportedly enter in attempt to arrest wounded from recent #PetroCaribeCorruption demonstrations.

Fallen protesters shot & killed by police during protests that broke out at. Bernard Mevs hospital in #Haiti's capital after #PHTK armed gangs and police reportedly entered to arrest those wounded in recent #PetroCaribeCorruption demonstrations.

Nov.2

Graphic

Spoiler

 

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Update: 6

The tyranny of #PHTK ruling party tightens its grip. All public meetings, events & gatherings in #Haiti now require permission of Ministry of Public Security. https://www.juno7.ht/haiti-securite

 

[loyola llothta]

Many so-called gangs in #Haiti are in reality paramilitary orgs. funded by elites & politicians to maintain power & privilege over majority of the poor. Whenever there is civil unrest they either work w/police or serve as an excuse for assaults on entire neighborhoods.