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Feb 11
The Core Group as a Parasite on Haitian Sovereignty

Ilio Durandis

What is the Core Group?

As stated in all their official statements, the Core Group is an overlap of representatives of many countries’ embassies (Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Spain, the European Union, and the United States of America) and that of two key organizations, the United Nations (UN) and the Organization of American States.

Now, you may be asking how these countries get to be part of a Core Group to matter relating to Haitian democracy, and political stability. And two other important questions might be why do these entities even care, and why are there no African or Caribbean countries representative in the Core Group?

Before I try to answer these questions, let me briefly share the origin of the core group, and why it persists even after the end of the militarized mission of the UN (MINUSTAH). For starter, the Core Group has been evolving ever since its “Phantom” creation. At first, it included Haitian institutions, such as the Conseil Electoral Provisoire (CEP), and members of the 2004 transition government. In its current form, it is composed only of foreign stakeholders, whatever they stake in Haiti might be.

Below, see excerpts of a document that pointed us to the origin of the Core Group dated back to June 2004.

elections results or street demonstrations.

The Core Group is a de facto international gang that stands in the way of Haitian democracy, something that they pretend to be promoting. A democracy without the voice of the people is no democracy. The Core Group uses all kind of psychological and intimidation tactics to subdue popular manifestations in Haiti. This should not be accepted anywhere, let alone in a country that came to existence by defeating foreign power, oppression and exploitation.

It is time to dissolve the Core Group, and let Haitians take control of their destiny. Haitians and only Haitians know what’s best for their society and well-being. Each time those foreign entities put out a statement that does not support the majority of the people, they stabbed the progress of democracy at its core.

And if Haiti needs a new Core Group to help it deals with its internal conflicts, such group must include Haitian institutions, countries that looks like Haiti, not only in their population and ethnicity make up, but also that have gone through similar economic, political and societal instability. A Core Group of powerful and opportunistic stakeholders could never align with the plight and demand of the Haitian people.

At this very moment, the Haitian people are once again in the streets, and this time almost every single Haitian would agree that we have had enough with corruption, impunity, social exclusion and economic disparities. It is time to rebuild Haiti as was intended by the brave founders.

The parasitic practices of foreign interferences in Haiti must come to an end. The Core Group is no longer welcome to speak in Haitian matters.


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In conclusion, click on the link below to catch up on how the UN Security council has been involved in Haiti since 1990. You can make your own conclusion as well. Feel free to leave a comment below or tag @durandis on twitter.

Haiti in the shadow of the Security Council since 1990



N.B the Core Group in Haiti has no direct website, physical address, or spokesperson. It might as well be an imaginary organization.

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The Core Group as a Parasite on Haitian Sovereignty — DYALOG

 

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Haiti and the failed promise of US aid
Haiti and the failed promise of US aid

 

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From years back

 

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it's frustrating people don't understand what's going on when you hear them speak. A friend of mines ignorantly said "Them nikkaz doing too much" in response to the protesting. Dude pretty much don't know shyt about what's going on so it's no shock but damn the level of ignorance in the average person is frustrating. shyt had me like

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Too many Haitian Americans oblivious to their own history but they stay rocking their flag hard.

 

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The Core Group, power and opposition?


October 2, 2019


Core Group comes out of Haiti! Jovenel Moise must resign himself!


A Meeting was held on Monday 30 September in Pétion-Ville between the government and the opposition under the umbrella of the Core Group composed of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General, the Ambassadors of Germany, Brazil, Canada, Spain, the United States of America, France, the European Union and the Special Representative of the Organization of American States.

Core Group members bring their solidarity to Jovenel Moise

The power has been represented by a reliable and clever ally in the person of former Prime Minister Evans Paul. The opposition itself with these two-headed representatives like Janus: on one side Yuri Latortue and Joseph Lambert for the Alternative Consensual for the Refoundation of the Nation, and on the other the former Senator Edmonde Supplice Beauzile, current president of the Fusion of Social Democrats and former Senator Edgard Leblanc Son (OPL) for the Patriotic Papaya Forum.

Former Senator Edmonde Supplice Beauzile


This meeting was nothing more than a kind of dilatory screen for the imperialist powers to plan their shady maneuvers to try by all means to help their scorned colt Jovenel Moise back up the slope to safeguard their interests since this is not the result of chance if it was imposed on the High Magistracy of the Haitian state, despite the refusal of the population.

What we must remember in this situation is that coups d'etat, of which the criminal policy of " regime change " is one, have always been the work of the leading powers, particularly the leader of the Core Group. United States. The plan to remove their present valet in Haiti is not in their program despite the strong popular pressure that openly show how the people rejected the president.

The truth is that, for the United States, the Haitian people can not decide for themselves to elect a president of their choice or even repudiate it. According to their philosophy of dependence on the countries they impoverish, this task is theirs. Everything that is to their taste is automatically good for us. Everything that makes them happy must also make us happy. We do not have the right to say that some things are not in order because it is up to them to plan for us.

Former Senator Edgard Leblanc Son

Indeed, it is not in Lavalas' time when the patripoche bourgeoisie, allied to a certain branch of the middle class, joined the interests of the imperialist powers against the majority of the people. The coup d'état of September 30, 2011 whose birthday this week is passed over in silence or as a letter to the post office is not without meaning, since a good number of actors of this coup is just very active in the fight against the regime in place.

Senators Joseph Lambert and Youri Latortue

And this is where the rub is, for cyclical reasons, some protagonists are not in the same political perspective as the United States, in other words the present project is not quite approved by the Donald Trump's administration; which does not imply a break between them but a simple difference of position in the political equation. This is why the Core Group firmly believes that the solution to this Haitian crisis based on a simple divergence must go through the dialogue between brothers and sisters enemies.

From left to right: former PHTK President Michel Martelly and his last Prime Minister Evans Paul.


It is the dominant force that can influence and the power and the opposition since both are allied to the same teat of corruption and the mercenary of the capitalist system. It may happen that the Core Group decides to release Jovenel if the balance of power requires it, but it would be a victory still apparent and misleading in their interest, but not for the benefit of the Haitian people since the policy that will be applied will probably be the continuity of PHTK without PHTK, just as the country's leaders continue to perpetuate Duvalier-free Duvalierism.

The Core Group, power and opposition? Servants of the same imperialist god.

Link:
Le Core Group, le pouvoir et l’opposition ? | Haiti Liberte

 

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October 8, 2019

Puerto Ricans Show Solidarity with Haiti, Denounce Occupation

On Monday, a group in Puerto Rico protested against occupying forces that are keeping a president in power despite nationwide rioting and calls for resignation from all sectors of national life.

The protesters met in front of the Federico Degetau Federal Building and Clemente Ruiz Nazario Courthouse in Hato Rey barrio of San Juan, Puerto Rico. They stood out on the streets and chanted in favor of the masses in Haiti. They were critical to U.S. led efforts in Haiti to keep President Jovenel Moïse, whose presence has kept the country on lockdown for 3 weeks, in power.

The protest was organized by Comuna Antilla, an organization that says it is for "liberation and brotherhood of peoples of the working class throughout the world against imperialism." The organization believes "in the revolutionary struggle; anti-fascist, anti-patriarchal, anti-racist and any struggle that opposes the capitalist state."

Link:
Puerto Ricans Show Solidarity with Haiti, Denounce Occupation

 

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Wow. On Sept 29, this young journalist in #Haiti, Nehemie Joseph, warned on Facebook that Senator Rony Celestin - a millionaire drug trafficker - ordered his death after accusing him of inciting an uprising in his district by covering the protests. He was shot dead last night.


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Warning Against Foreign Intervention, the Movement to Oust Jovenel Shows No Signs of Weakening
The second of two-parts

October 9, 2019

On Fri. Oct. 4, a gargantuan demonstration of many, many thousands marched on the UN headquarters in Haiti.

On Sep. 29, the Belmart Supermarket in Tabarre, near the U.S. Embassy and a UN base, was jam-packed with well-to-do Haitian and foreign shoppers stocking up on food, water, and other supplies. They might have been preparing for a hurricane, and, in a manner of speaking, they were: a hurricane of popular anger and frustration that was due to arrive the next day, on the Sep. 30, 1991 coup’s 28th anniversary.

With every passing day and week, the movement to oust President Jovenel Moïse and his cronies grows in size, strength, and resolve.

Sep. 30 did not disappoint; it saw the capital completely shut down by barricades and widespread street demonstrations. Over the following two days, there were still burning barricades and scattered protests, but commerce and traffic picked up about 50%.

As if to rekindle things, on Oct. 3, the United Nations Security Council in New York (at the request of the Dominican Republic, which currently sits on the Council) held an informal “brain-storming” session on the Haiti crisis that resulted in no resolution. The next day, Fri. Oct. 4, a gargantuan demonstration of many, many thousands marched from the capital’s Nazon/Delmas Roads intersection (the traditional starting point these days) to the UN headquarters in Haiti. The demonstrators’ message: no more foreign military occupation, no more foreign meddling, stop supporting the Moïse regime.

A pro-regime gunman shot dead a young demonstrator, Edouavil Dieudonné, on the Champ de Mars on Oct. 7. An enraged crowd set fire to a police pick-up truck. Credit: Wesley Gédéon


The UN Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (MINUJUSTH) is due to finally end on Oct. 15. The departure of its 1,300 international police officers will mark the end of over 15 years of UN Security Council military control over Haiti. Last Friday’s protest was aimed at thwarting any attempt to use the current crisis as an excuse to redeploy an “international peacekeeping force” in Haiti.

On Mon., Oct. 7, another large demonstration flooded the central square, the Champ de Mars, near the National Palace, to demand Jovenel’s resignation. At about 4 p.m., a pro-regime paramilitary gunman shot dead Edouavil Dieudonné, a young demonstrator. Enraged, the crowd set fire to a police pick-up truck and trashed a house frequented by regime friends.


As tensions and confrontations grow, so has the death toll. At least 17 people have been killed in the last four weeks of protests, and more than 200 injured, although opposition and popular organization leaders say those figures may be conservative.

Barricades go up, then a heavily armed and armored police unit creeps in to clear it away. After the unit leaves, the barricade is rebuilt. It appears a futile contest, like sweeping back the ocean with a broom.

Sometimes, however, skirmishes erupt between the police and protestors. One happened on the afternoon of Sep. 30 at the Nazon/Delmas intersection. A man wearing a TV 2000 press pass showed Haïti Liberté a handful of spent shell casings from bullets the police had fired at protestors that very day, he said.

While Haïti Liberté was there for about an hour, the police fired tear-gas grenades at protestors, who responded by throwing rocks. Many watched the battle from their rooftops. Some policemen even threw rocks back at demonstrators from the top of the overpass above the Nazon Road.

At the Nazon/Delmas intersection, a man holds the spent casings of bullets he claims police fired at demonstrators. Credit: Kim Ives/Haïti Liberté

Link:
Warning Against Foreign Intervention, the Movement to Oust Jovenel Shows No Signs of Weakening | Haiti Liberte

 

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With the arrival of the new Haitian National Police (PNH) chief Normil Rameau, there has been a sharp escalation of police and pro-regime paramilitary violence, said Mario Joseph, the lead lawyer of the International Lawyers Office (BAI).

“There is a huge difference between the police conduct under former PNH chief Michel-Ange Gédéon and the new chief Normil Rameau,” he said in an Oct. 1 interview at his Port-au-Prince office after returning from Washington, DC, where he presented the problem on Sep. 23 to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). “Rameau has only been in office about a month, but already there has been a marked increase in summary executions… Normil Rameau is someone that Jovenel Moïse put in place to help him carry out repression.”

Rameau also appears to be working hand-in-hand with paramilitary death-squads, Joseph said, a scourge that has dogged Haiti’s democratic struggle since the Duvalier regime’s 1986 fall. An example is the Sep. 28 murder of Josemano “Badou” Victorieux, the leader of Baz 47 (47 Base) in Delmas, a popular organization. Badou was gunned down near Rendez-Vous 33 Resto in Delmas 33. “This kidnapper regime’s henchmen assassinated him for demanding change for the Haitian people,” said Mackenson Desrosiers, a Baz 47 member, sitting on a stoop just off Delmas 47 with his comrades.

Baz 47 is affiliated with the Dessalines Children party of former Sen. Moïse Jean-Charles, who said that six of his party’s militants were killed between Sep. 23-29.

Also on the night of Oct. 7, unidentified gunmen fatally shot Bénisson Benoyer, 18, in the capital suburb of Tabarre 51. Benoyer’s family and friends charge the crime was committed by a police patrol from the local Tabarre precinct.

Despite its tenacity, the movement to oust Jovenel remains largely spontaneous and uncoordinated. There is no single guiding party or organization. The masses tolerate but are not enamored with the two principal opposition fronts: the Consensual Alternative for the Nation’s Refounding (previously the Democratic and Popular Sector) and the Patriotic Forum of Papay. The former counts in its leadership Sens. Youri Latortue and Joseph Lambert, both former close allies of Jovenel Moïse and infamous for their corruption.

The two senators represented the Alternative at a meeting in Pétionville on Sep. 30 with the “Core Group,” as are called the ambassadors of nations and institutions allied with Washington. The “Core Group” is made up of the ambassadors of the U.S., France, Germany, Brazil, Canada, Spain, the EU, and the special representatives of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the UN Secretary General.

The Patriotic Forum also sent ex-senators Edmonde Supplice Beauzile of the social-democratic Fusion party and Edgard Leblanc Fils of the Struggling People’s Party (OPL) to the meeting, which included former President Michel Martelly’s Prime Minister Evans Paul, representing the regime.

MOLEGHAF’s Oxygène David: “We have a rotten opposition, which preaches that we should concoct solutions in concert with the imperialists and reconcile with the bourgeoisie, both of which foisted this corrupt, bloody PHTK regime on the Haitian masses.” Credit: Kim Ives/Haïti Liberté

The meeting’s purpose was to fashion a solution to the crisis in conjunction with the very powers that helped bring Martelly’s and Jovenel’s Haitian Bald-Headed Party (PHTK) to power. Watching such negotiations, the masses are justifiably distrustful.

“We have a rotten opposition, which preaches that we should concoct solutions in concert with the imperialists and reconcile with the bourgeoisie, both of which foisted this corrupt, bloody PHTK regime on the Haitian masses,” said Oxygène David, the secretary general of the National Movement for Liberty and Equality of Haitians for Fraternity (MOLEGHAF), based in the gritty hilltop slum of Fort National. “The masses unfortunately have not yet been able to forge their own vanguard, so scoundrels and opportunists currently have the leadership, proning class collaboration. We denounce that, and that is why they marginalize us and other revolutionary organizations.”

One of the busiest members of the bourgeoisie has been Réginald Boulos, who supported the 1991 and 2004 coups and saw his stores burned by angry demonstrators last summer when this latest uprising began. Since then, he has sought to convert himself into the masses’ champion, launching a political party called the “Third Way.”

Boulos has allied himself with the Alternative and the Forum fronts and has distributed lots of money to popular organizations in Cité Soleil, the capital’s largest slum and spring of rebellion.

“We in MOLEGHAF denounce this so-called ‘Third Way’ as merely a way to trick, combat, and destroy the working class seeking to build its own vanguard,” Oxgène said. “We denounce this phony, demagogic opposition, both the Alternative and Forum of Papay, which are working with Boulos and their program of class collaboration, which is only aimed at allowing Boulos to maintain political power and even try to become president.”

There was another sign that the local and international bourgeoisie is alarmed and abandoning Jovenel. This week the American Chamber of Commerce in Haiti (AMCHAM) put out a hand-wringing note that the Haitian people have been “taken hostage by a political war,” causing “ an unprecedented deterioration of the national economy which is gradually destroying the formal business sector.”

“The path is clearly drawn to bury our homeland in misery, insecurity, and total anarchy, because the approach chosen so far has unfortunately failed,” AMCHAM concluded.

The alarm even is being felt overseas in Miami, where House Speaker Nancy Pelosi attended a Haitian community meeting hosted by Rep. Frederica Wilson on Oct. 3.

The event at the Gérard Jean-Juste Community Center in Oak Grove Park featured a panel of six local Haitian leaders: Miami Dade County Commissioner Jean Monestime, City of North Miami Beach Commissioner Michael Joseph, lawyer Karen André, Gepsie Mettelus of Sant La Haitian Neighborhood Center, activist/teacher Carline Paul, and Marleine Bastien of Family Action Network Movement (FANM).

The meeting began with mostly vapid politician remarks by Pelosi, Wilson, Monestime, and Joseph. But then it erupted (much to Pelosi’s discomfort) into a trial of and outcry against U.S. policy in Haiti, beginning with remarks by Karen André, the daughter of famed protest singer Farah Juste, who was in the audience.

“I am unapologetically on the side of those beleaguered, long-suffering masses… who, for the last century, have been dealing with intervention, imperialism, meddling, and all manner of corruption, and lack of respect,” she said to a cheering audience.

Panelists at the Oct. 3 community meeting in North Miami: (left to right) lawyer Karen André, activist Gepsie Mettelus, teacher Carline Paul, Rep. Frederica Wilson, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Miami Dade County Commissioner Jean Monestime, North Miami Beach Commissioner Michael Joseph, and activist Marleine Bastien. Credit: Kim Ives/Haiti Liberté

“Since 1804, [the Haitian people] have had one message: respect our sovereignty,” she continued. More recently, “they have been asking ‘Where is the PetroCaribe money?’ There is a whole movement which has been built around that question.”

She went on to needle Pelosi about “the killings, the massacres, the extra-judicial killings that are happening with impunity” and “with weapons that are U.S.-made, entering the country by mysterious means, and killing the activists which are raising their voices and demanding change.”

She concluded by saying that Washington “should support truly, truly free and fair elections that are the will of the people and say no to elections that are ‘selections’ or coronations orchestrated by foreign interests.”

With the tone set, Carline Paul continued the prosecution. “America has kept [the Haitian people] in a box… [The people] say this time the revolution is going to happen. They do not want America to send any troops in Haiti, and they want Jovenel Moïse to go.”

Then Paul really hit a nerve when she charged that the Trump administration “is supporting Jovenel Moise for voting [at the OAS] against [President Nicolas] Maduro in Venezuela.” But Washington “didn’t like it, because Venezuela has helped Haiti” and then the Haitian government was “forced to vote against Venezuela.”

“The United States is telling them: Don’t get in contact with China. Don’t get in contact with Venezuela. Don’t get in contact with so and so,” she said, concluding that “Trump, in the background, is supporting Jovenel Moïse; the people of Haiti say no interference, … no more support for Jovenel Moïse as president of Haiti.”

FANM’s Marleine Bastien also made a jab at Pelosi’s Democrats by saying “if there is a Jovenel Moïse today, Speaker Pelosi, it’s because there was a Michel Martelly who was hand-picked by some of our friends,” a not-so-veiled reference to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s January 2011 visit to Haiti, which resulted in Martelly being put into the run-off, which he won.

Echoing the other three women, Gepsie Metellus said: “We can say that today what you see unfolding in the streets of Port-au-Prince is just the result of years… of political meddling, of economic meddling, of all the meddling that you can think of. And I think the frustration is blowing up.”

As the meeting closed, Pelosi felt compelled to present, quite incoherently, the joint Democrat/Republican posture towards any revolutionary government in Latin America. She was responding particularly to Paul’s remarks. “You’ve been candid, and I’m going to be candid,” Pelosi said. “Maduro is a thug, so I’m not taking any respect for what Maduro might be doing in Haiti (sic). I’m glad that there may be some benefit, but I’m not… erasing the injustices, the horror, the killings that he is doing in Venezuela because he is part of spreading a global and certainly a hemispheric exporting corruption and the rest (sic).” As the room remained stonily silent, she added: “Not to get involved in a full-fledged discussion about Maduro, but I can’t leave a meeting where you’re saying… I cannot let my view of Maduro go unspoken in a group of this kind.”

It was evident that in Miami, as in Haiti, most Haitians clearly see and understand the diametrically opposed roles played by Washington and Caracas. The former has consistently supported corrupt, exploitative, and repressive regimes over the past century and trampled Haiti’s sovereignty, while the latter has offered exemplary solidarity, empowerment, and respect to the Haitian people. Today, Trump, Pelosi, and Jovenel all condemn and fight Maduro and the on-going Venezuelan revolution.

Pelosi may have summed it up best in a statement after the meeting: “It’s about American leadership in the world. I don’t consider it meddling.”

Link:
Warning Against Foreign Intervention, the Movement to Oust Jovenel Shows No Signs of Weakening | Haiti Liberte