Essential The Official Contemporary Haitian Geopolitics/Event thread

[BigMan]

So why the "grimo " comment? You dont have grimos in your family? Do you even know what grimo means?

Just a hint: grimo≠mullato

I'm just tired of seeing lite brites run everything in the Caribbean

 

[intruder]

I'm just tired of seeing lite brites run everything in the Caribbean

Grimo/rouj = lighskined or red or as they say in the U.S. redbone
Mulatre = "biracial"

 

[BigMan]

Grimo/rouj = lighskined or red or as they say in the U.S. redbone
Mulatre = "biracial"

I know

 

[Secure Da Bag]

“Energy Mafioso” against China’s $2B Plan to Electrify Haiti

 

[get these nets]

“Energy Mafioso” against China’s $2B Plan to Electrify Haiti

sounds about right. oligarch families in caribbean run everything and have the most to lose when china comes in and builds infrastructure.

energy mafia indeed.......there's no constant reliable grid in Haiti..........people with money have generators and private grid because the other shyt is unreliable.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

sounds about right. oligarch families in caribbean run everything and have the most to lose when china comes in and builds infrastructure.

energy mafia indeed.......there's no constant reliable grid in Haiti..........people with money have generators and private grid because the other shyt is unreliable.

I wouldn't be mad at oligarches running the energy market IF they provided sustainable, reliable energy. As of now, they're just mediocre on a very good day.

 

[get these nets]

cousin was down there......was scheduled to leave last Friday........had to sleep at the airport until Monday when he left.

when he gets situated, i'm gonna talk to him about what was happening on the ground

 

[get these nets]

I wouldn't be mad at oligarches running the energy market IF they provided sustainable, reliable energy. As of now, they're just mediocre on a very good day.

agree.

 

[loyola llothta]

@Diasporan Royalty

Here the better article on the Uprising in Haiti. Give you the summary of the current goverment corruption (with help of the west/UN)and the suppression of the Haitian poor. Haiti the apartheid state

Good read



Nationwide Popular Uprising Calls for President Jovenel Moïse’s Removal

Demonstrators surged into the streets of cities and towns around Haiti, erecting barricades, on Jul. 6 when the Haitian government announced huge fuel price increases.

Haiti exploded this past week in a nationwide uprising whose Kreyòl watchwords are “nou bouke,” meaning “we are fed up.”

Like a volcano, the explosion of anger and violence was building up over the past 17 months of President Jovenel Moïse’s rule, which has been characterized by corruption, waste, double-talk, repression, and subservience to neoliberal dictates.

The spark was the slashing of fuel price subsidies mandated by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in return for $96 million in “budget support.” As a result, the cost of a gallon of gasoline rose 38% from 224 to 309 gourdes ($3.45 to $4.75), diesel leapt 47% from 179 to 264 gourdes per gallon ($1.74 to $4.06), and kerosene soared from 173 to 262 gourdes per gallon ($2.66 to $4.03). In comparison, the average cost in the U.S. of a gallon of gas is $2.86, of diesel is $3.25, and of kerosene is $3.60.

Back on Mar. 8, Economy and Finance Minister Jude Alix Patrick Salomon announced that the Haitian government had bowed to the IMF’s demands in February, saying the fuel price hikes would take effect in July. Public transport drivers’ unions and popular organizations protested, pointing to the deepening poverty of Haiti’s masses and their inability to pay public transport costs.

A National gas station and cars were burned as demonstrators targeted businesses owned by some members of Haiti’s bourgeoisie, particularly by the Boulos family.


“The country will be blocked if the state stubbornly insists on raising prices for petroleum products,” said Edva Dorismé, vice president of the Haiti’s Assembly of Tap-Tap Drivers (RCTH). But Culture and Communication Minister Guyler C. Delva insisted the hikes would go forward, saying it was for the people’s own good.

“It is criminal on the part of the Haitian State to take such a measure, while there are other ways to find money without harming people,” said Jonel Merisier, the president of the Union of Drivers and Vehicle Owners of Mirebalais (SCPVM).

Many Haitians are avid fans of the Brazilian national soccer team, and the government apparently had hoped that they would be distracted by the Jul. 6 Brazil vs. Belgium contest during the ongoing World Cup. Just after the match began, it published the decree with the new increased prices to take effect the next day.

Government strategists apparently thought that Brazil would win the match and that the ensuing celebrations in Haiti would drown out any outrage over the price hikes.

Unfortunately for them, Brazil lost to Belgium and was eliminated from the World Cup competition. The Haitian masses’ resulting anger and disappointment over the loss dovetailed with the shock of finally seeing the new higher fuel prices, creating a perfect storm.

It was the last straw. Months of frustration boiled over. Faced with a 13% inflation rate and (officially) 14% unemployment, Haitian workers have been demonstrating for the minimum wage to be raised from 335 to 1000 gourdes a day ($5.15 to $15.39). The government has spent millions on a pointless traveling carnival of political hoopla and promises called the “Caravan for Change,” generating resentment among Haitians with dwindling, poverty-stricken schools and hospitals. Local and municipal governments are also cash-starved while Jovenel’s regime spent millions more on resurrecting the traditionally-repressive Haitian Army last November. The government has effectively blocked any investigation into where some $3.8 billion disappeared from the PetroCaribe fund, drawn from revenues from the sale of cheap Venezuelan petroleum products. An unpopular budget drawn up last year taxes the poor and even expatriate Haitians; the government has wasted time and money on a still-born “national dialogue” initiative called the General States (États Généraux) and recently distributed 3,000 large flat-screen TV sets to all senators and deputies for a rumored cost of $14 million so that rural Haitians could supposedly watch the World Cup. All the while, police forces have used brutal and sometimes lethal force against demonstrators, jails are severely overcrowded with mostly untried detainees, and kidnappings, robberies, and “insécurité” (lawless atmosphere) are on the rise.

From Jul. 6 to 10, angry demonstrators took to the streets, setting up barricades of burning tires, car chassis, and furniture. The ravine-lined road through Canapé-Vert was coated with slick oil, making it too dangerous to drive on. Other areas around the capital of Port-au-Prince like Delmas, Lalue, Nazon, Champs-de-mars,, Carrefour-Feuilles, Carrefour Fleuriot, and Kenscoff were inaccessible. Demonstrators also filled the streets of several other cities such as Cap-Haitien, Petit-Goâve, Les Cayes, Jérémie, and Jacmel, as well as towns in the Artibonite.

In the upscale neighborhoods of Pétionville, car windshields and house windows were broken. Banks, warehouses, gas stations, hotels, car dealerships, and supermarkets belonging to the bourgeoisie (particularly the Boulos family) were targeted for destruction, burning, and looting.

The court house in the town of Petit-Goâve was burned and the General Directorate of Taxes (DGI) was almost burned, with the building’s walls blackened by flames.

The government, through televised speeches, tweets, and press releases from the president, prime minister, and police brass tried to calm the protesters with hollow, meaningless declarations calling for calm.

“I’m asking you for patience because the administration’s vision is clear,” said PM Jack Guy Lafontant in a completely ineffective televised speech on the morning of Jul. 7. “It has a clear program that it continues to execute.”

Protests grew. By that afternoon, President Moïse had to make his televised speech, where he announced that the price hikes would be withdrawn. But it was too little, too late.

“There is no other alternative. He has to go,” professor Auguste “Gougousse” D’Meza, an educational and political consultant in Port-au-Prince, told the Miami Herald. “The people don’t believe in him anymore.”

Already, many Haitian parliamentarians are calling for a no-confidence vote on Lafontant’s government, which may be sacrificed in an attempt to save Jovenel’s regime. Many representatives from Haiti’s bourgeoisie are also calling on Lafontant and his ministers to step down.

However, the target of the masses’ fury is not the prime minister but the president who selects him. “In his mind, he thinks he has done something serious,” Sen. Patrice Dumont said of President Moïse to the Miami Herald. “Up until now, he’s not living in reality.”

The “Core Group,” dominated by ambassadors from the U.S., Canada, and European nations, urged Haitians on Jul. 10 to “respect constitutional order,” in other words to not force Moïse’s resignation and flight. They also called on “national authorities to engage in deep and inclusive dialogue with all the other key actors of the country so as to restore calm, promote social cohesion, and assure the security of people and property.”

The U.S. embassy, like most of the others, has been closed through most of the tempest, urging U.S. citizens to “shelter in place.”

Hundreds of Haitian expatriate summer vacationers and U.S. missionaries were stranded at international airports in Port-au-Prince and Cap Haïtien when airlines like Spirit, JetBlue, and American cancelled flights on Sat., Jul. 7. Flights gradually resumed over the following three days.

Many police officers abandoned their posts or did not venture out in the face of the masses’ wrath. One police officer, Robert Scutt, was killed when he tried to break through a street barricade.

There were at least four deaths which resulted from the uprising and its repression.

A general strike on Mon., Jul. 9 and Tue., Jul. 10 was successful nationwide, although people began to resume their activities late Tuesday.

While the virulence of the popular demonstrations has clearly shaken Haiti’s rulers, the leaders of Haiti’s popular and democratic opposition sector are currently divided and weak. Without organizational infrastructure and a clear strategy and line of march, the uprising will likely subside in coming days… at least temporarily.

But the speed and strength with which the demonstrations of the last five days developed make clear the fragility and volatility of Haiti’s political situation and augur more popular revolts in the days and weeks ahead.

Link:
Nationwide Popular Uprising Calls for President Jovenel Moïse’s Removal | Haiti Liberte

 

[Mr.Big Meat McGee]

@Diasporan Royalty

Here the better article on the Uprising in Haiti. Give you the summary of the current goverment corruption (with help of the west/UN)and the suppression of the Haitian poor. Haiti the apartheid state

Good read



Nationwide Popular Uprising Calls for President Jovenel Moïse’s Removal



Link:
Nationwide Popular Uprising Calls for President Jovenel Moïse’s Removal | Haiti Liberte

Many Haitians are avid fans of the Brazilian national soccer team, and the government apparently had hoped that they would be distracted by the Jul. 6 Brazil vs. Belgium contest during the ongoing World Cup. Just after the match began, it published the decree with the new increased prices to take effect the next day.

Government strategists apparently thought that Brazil would win the match and that the ensuing celebrations in Haiti would drown out any outrage over the price hikes.

Wow the Haitian government is scum. They really take Haitians for fools

 

[Secure Da Bag]

If Haiti’s government does not confront poverty, corruption, more unrest will follow

Saturday’s resignation of Haiti’s Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant, along with the suspension of controversial fuel price rises, will bring temporary respite from the latest social unrest in the country. But they will not resolve the problem underlying the protests — the Haitian people’s inability to demand better governance and basic services from its leaders.

In a 1962 speech to the Organization of American States, President Kennedy urged the United States and “those who possess wealth and power” in the hemisphere’s less wealthy nations to enact reforms to allow the people of the Americas “to hope for a suitable standard of living.” Kennedy famously warned that. “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

We did not need last week’s images of angry protests and burning cars to know that, half a century later, a suitable standard of living is beyond most Haitians’ hopes. A drive through Port-au-Prince reveals shocking levels of poverty. In Haiti, 80 percent of the people live on less than $2 a day, which would buy a half-gallon of gas.

Haiti’s poverty, like the fuel-price increases, is the product of decisions made by those who possess wealth and power in Haiti and abroad — with a stunning absence of input from the majority of Haitians who are poor. The crippling fuel increases — between 38 percent and 51 percent — were imposed in February by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as a condition of its bailout of Haiti’s government.


The price increases came amid a long series of corruption scandals under current President Jovenel Moïse and his predecessor Michel Martelly that have diverted hundreds of millions from government services to the pockets of leaders and their associates.


Haiti President Jovenel Moïse addresses his nation following the resignation of Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant and his cabinet. Moïse appeals to Haitians to end the practice of turning to violence to express their frustrations.

By Télévision Nationale d'Haïti (TNH)
A week before Moïse’s February 2017 inauguration, Haiti’s independent anti-corruption agency reported his frequent, large — $40,000 — and unexplained cash transactions that looked a lot like money laundering. Moïse illegally fired the agency’s head, which ended the inquiry. Revelations of up to $2 billion in theft from the PetroCaribe fuel assistance from Venezuela have rocked the country, with no visible consequences to the thieves. A few days before the massive protests, a prosecutor ordered the police to destroy houses —without the required court order — on land next to Moïse’s personal home where he wants to build an access road and helipad.

The United Nations refuses to fulfill its legal obligations to the victims of the cholera epidemic, introduced by its peacekeepers and that has killed more than 10,000 Haitians. Its own human-rights expert called the U.N.’s response “morally unconscionable, [and] legally indefensible.”

Fair elections, which should be Haitians’ best opportunity for peaceful revolution, are a fading memory. Martelly was elected in 2011, after the Electoral Council excluded Haiti’s largest party, Fanmi Lavalas, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton forced the Council (by threatening to cancel U.S. visas) to change the first-round results to move third-place candidate Martelly into the runoff. Martelly, after years of unconstitutional delay, presided over elections with enough violence, corruption and voter exclusion to reduce turnout to 21 percent for the 2016 presidential elections that Moïse, his protégé, won. In 2000, when Haitians voted enthusiastically — turnout was 68 percent — the results were overturned by the 2004 coup d’état organized by those who possess wealth and power in Haiti, the United States, Canada and France.


As Haiti entered a third day of civil unrest, some airline flights to the country resumed. Haitians had been protesting a 38 percent gas price hike by the government with flaming road barricades and sporadic looting.

Haitians took to the streets last week because they justifiably believed that doing so was the only way they would be heard. More unrest is inevitable, unless Haiti immediately starts a peaceful revolution toward a suitable standard of living. The peaceful revolution requires Haiti’s government to take dramatic steps to penalize corruption and to respect the courts and others institutions that should hold it accountable. The peaceful revolution requires the international community to condition its support on the government’s willingness to be accountable to its people, not its willingness to squeeze them even more, and to practice what it preaches on fair elections and the rule of law.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

How is Haiti not able to drag Canada, France, and the UN to the Hague/ICJ? Clearly, laws were broken restitution is due. Not to mention the iridium being currently stolen by the UN.

 

[mson]

Any updates on this?

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Any updates on this?

Aside from Hillary Clinton getting her brother in position to take said gold, nope.

 

[loyola llothta]

Landing of a squad of US Marines in Haiti

The detachment comes from the Maritime Security Guards Strengthening Unit in Quantico, Virginia, the Business Insider magazine and the Yahoo portal reported.

July 13. 2018

((rezonodwes.com)) - A detachment the size of a squad of additional maritime security guards arrived at the US Embassy in Haiti while the Caribbean nation Impoverished is torn by riots because of high fuel prices, confirmed a US official.
CNN first reported Tuesday that the Marines were en route to Port-au-Prince to reinforce security guards and State Department personnel already at the US embassy.


The detachment comes from the Maritime Security Guards Strengthening Unit in Quantico, Virginia, which can be called by any ambassador when a foreign diplomatic post is threatened, a US official told Task & Purpose .

Street demonstrations and violence erupted in Haiti on July 6 after the government's decision to raise gas prices by 38 percent and kerosene by 51 percent to balance its budget, according to media reports. Despite the announcement by Haitian Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant of the suspension of price increases the following day, the unrest continued apace.

Several people have been killed in the riots and armed groups have set up roadblocks in some parts of the country.