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

[loyola llothta]

How did #Haiti become a client-state?

OTD: July 28, 1915, US Marines invaded and occupied for 19 years, looted the treasury, changed constitution, destroyed the original army to establish a subservient force trained and controlled by US Marines...The #shythole legacy continues.

 

[loyola llothta]

The 19 yrs occupation was made possible by election theft, and the slaughter of 50,000 peasants. State Dept article admits they stole 1914 election. Also admits occupation gave wealth to the neocolonial settler class and left the remaining in poverty. See my pinned tweet. #Haiti

 

[loyola llothta]

The US established a neocolonial army during the 1915-1934 occupation that terrorized the poor in #Haiti until it was disbanded in 1995. It's been replaced with UN "peacekeepers," the national police, and secret paramilitary death squads that continue to massacre with impunity.

 

[loyola llothta]

#Haiti's brutal military was disbanded in 1995 over the objections of the CIA, Pentagon & key Clinton advisers. Aristide first ordered reduction of the force from 7,000 to 1,500 followed by retiring all military commanders. Eventually only the marching band would remain.

 

[loyola llothta]

This was considered a betrayal by the CIA who had tolerated the Haitian military high command turning Haiti into a major transhipment point for cocaine bound for the US. It was considered a "necessary evil" to allow a partnership to develop between the the Cali Cartel & #Haiti's

 

[loyola llothta]

military if it helped to rid Colombia of Pablo Escobar and the rival Medellin Cartel. The hierarchy was Col. Michel "Sweet Micky" Francois [muscle], Gen. Biamby [shipping], & Gen. Cedras [frontman].


-(link: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-01-17-wr-20952-story.html) latimes.com/archives/la-xp…
-(link: https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/22/world/aristide-forces-retirement-of-haiti-s-top-military-officers.html) nytimes.com/1995/02/22/wor…
-(link: http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/43a/415.html) hartford-hwp.com/archives/43a/4…



Aristide Forces Retirement of Haiti's Top Military Officers
nytimes.com

 

[loyola llothta]

Their drug running was detailed by undisclosed "American diplomats and 'other officials'" after lawyers for Aristide provided witnesses and evidence following the CIA's attempt to portray the exiled president as "on lithium, erratic and unreliable." -



U.S. Says Haiti's Military Runs Cocaine
nytimes.com

 

[loyola llothta]

All three men would ultimately be given amnesty for human rights abuses at the insistence of the US govt & allowed to split $79 million (the last of the cash on the books they were unable to spirit away to Swiss bank accounts).

-https://www.us-foreign-policy-perspective.org/index.php?id=307 …
-https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1994/10/14/us-assists-dictators-luxury-exile/90e9f0bb-160d-49bb-a848-452e62a9d2ea/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.82978355533a …


U.S. ASSISTS DICTATORS' LUXURY EXILE
washingtonpost.com

 

[loyola llothta]

Cedras and Biamby would be allowed to live a luxurious exile in Panama. Request for their extradition was denied by the the Panamanian foreign ministry in Nov. 1999 stating, "it would be a dangerous precedent to grant the right of asylum to resolve a political problem

 

[loyola llothta]

in a neighboring country and later deny the rights of those given asylum." Biamby reportedly died of Pancreatic cancer in a Panamanian hospital on December 13, 2008 at the age of 56. Cedras remains living a comfortably in Panama.

 

[loyola llothta]

The most violent and notorious of the three men, Col. Joseph Michel "Sweet Mickey" Francois, was given his nickname for reportedly using boiling hot cane syrup to torture his victims. The moniker would later be taken by Michel Martelly who later founded the Tet Kale or

 

[loyola llothta]

"skinhead" party as a tribute to Francois' penchant for targeting supporters of former president Aristide and the Lavalas movement. Martelly would be elected president of Haiti in 2011 in fraudulent elections after an intervention by then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

 

[loyola llothta]

Francois would live in luxury in Honduras after its Supreme Court ruled against an extradition request by the DEA in 1997 & 1998 after reported direct interventions by "unnamed US intelligence officials"on both occasions. He died of a massive cardiac arrest on February 21, 2017.

 

[loyola llothta]

#Haiti's brutal military was disbanded in 1995 over the objections of the CIA, Pentagon & key Clinton advisers. Aristide first ordered reduction of the force from 7,000 to 1,500 followed by retiring all military commanders. Eventually only the marching band would remain.


This was considered a betrayal by the CIA who had tolerated the Haitian military high command turning Haiti into a major transhipment point for cocaine bound for the US. It was considered a "necessary evil" to allow a partnership to develop between the the Cali Cartel & #Haiti's military if it helped to rid Colombia of Pablo Escobar and the rival Medellin Cartel. The hierarchy was Col. Michel "Sweet Micky" Francois [muscle], Gen. Biamby [shipping], & Gen. Cedras [frontman].


-(link: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-01-17-wr-20952-story.html) latimes.com/archives/la-xp…
-(link: https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/22/world/aristide-forces-retirement-of-haiti-s-top-military-officers.html) nytimes.com/1995/02/22/wor…
-(link: http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/43a/415.html) hartford-hwp.com/archives/43a/4…



Aristide Forces Retirement of Haiti's Top Military Officers
nytimes.com


Their drug running was detailed by undisclosed "American diplomats and 'other officials'" after lawyers for Aristide provided witnesses and evidence following the CIA's attempt to portray the exiled president as "on lithium, erratic and unreliable." -



U.S. Says Haiti's Military Runs Cocaine
nytimes.com

All three men would ultimately be given amnesty for human rights abuses at the insistence of the US govt & allowed to split $79 million (the last of the cash on the books they were unable to spirit away to Swiss bank accounts).

-https://www.us-foreign-policy-perspective.org/index.php?id=307 …
-https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1994/10/14/us-assists-dictators-luxury-exile/90e9f0bb-160d-49bb-a848-452e62a9d2ea/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.82978355533a …


U.S. ASSISTS DICTATORS' LUXURY EXILE
washingtonpost.com

Cedras and Biamby would be allowed to live a luxurious exile in Panama. Request for their extradition was denied by the the Panamanian foreign ministry in Nov. 1999 stating, "it would be a dangerous precedent to grant the right of asylum to resolve a political problem in a neighboring country and later deny the rights of those given asylum." Biamby reportedly died of Pancreatic cancer in a Panamanian hospital on December 13, 2008 at the age of 56. Cedras remains living a comfortably in Panama.

The most violent and notorious of the three men, Col. Joseph Michel "Sweet Mickey" Francois, was given his nickname for reportedly using boiling hot cane syrup to torture his victims. The moniker would later be taken by Michel Martelly who later founded the Tet Kale or "skinhead" party as a tribute to Francois' penchant for targeting supporters of former president Aristide and the Lavalas movement. Martelly would be elected president of Haiti in 2011 in fraudulent elections after an intervention by then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Francois would live in luxury in Honduras after its Supreme Court ruled against an extradition request by the DEA in 1997 & 1998 after reported direct interventions by "unnamed US intelligence officials"on both occasions. He died of a massive cardiac arrest on February 21, 2017.

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[loyola llothta]