Essential The Official Contemporary Haitian Geopolitics/Event thread

[loyola llothta]

Another tenet of Reaganomics and U.S. foreign policy was that governments had to divest themselves of state-run companies and allow their elites along with foreign business partners to buy them up. We've all heard the famous allegations that Aristide was involved in corruption. Following the allegation, we have to ask why? I lived in Haiti during that period and was perhaps the only foreign journalist to focus on this question from the people's perspective.

Aristide refused to privatize Haiti's two largest industries owned by the state, the electric company EDH and the telephone company, Telecommunications d'Haiti or TELECO. Instead, Aristide took profits from both companies and invested them in a universal literacy program and feeding program for the poor. Any adult between the age of 30 and 60 could go to a free literacy class, modeled after the Cuban literacy system successfully used in Nicaragua.

In addition, there were what was called the "literacy restaurants." At the height of the program, more than 2 million people per month received a hot meal, with more than 300,000 of them being children who were given vitamin supplements free of charge.

It was exactly this program that served as a safety net for the poor which was dismantled after Aristide's ouster, and which could have served as a buffer to events in April 2008.

The international community and the UN have proved they have different priorities and a different model for development in Haiti. This is why their forces, despite the propaganda, are largely reviled among the poor in Haiti today.

Haiti's poor majority has seen more than $2 billion pumped into the country over the past three years, and yet there has been no discernable alleviation of the poverty and misery they are forced to endure. It has been insult added to injury after having the right to choose a government not to the liking of the international community taken away from them in February 2004.

YOU HAVE written extensively on the brutal repression and destructive violence inflicted on poor neighborhoods by the occupying forces. The Brazilian military has played a leading role in this respect. What are some of the military tactics the Brazilians use to enforce the occupation?

THE BRAZILIAN military is by its own nature and history a repressive force. One need not look further then its own history to confirm this. The Brazilians serve much the same role they play in their own country to repress the favelas. The only difference is that they use Haiti to whitewash their own brutal historical image internationally.

In Haiti, the Brazilians always shoot first, and detain without cause or warrant. Yet they wash their hands of responsibility for arresting thousands of Haitians, most of them incarcerated for political reasons without ever seeing a judge.

The conditions in Haiti's main penitentiary demand we work to free them by any means necessary. I'm serious--even if it means confronting the UN directly on the ground in Haiti. Prisoners in Haiti cannot be allowed to suffer under these conditions without a directed and durable response.

Most of the prisoners are there without seeing a judge for more than a year and remain imprisoned for their political beliefs. Otherwise, the burden of proof lies with Haiti's occupation force--namely the United States and their surrogates such as Brazil.

RECENTLY, THE Economist and the head of the UN hailed the occupation of Haiti as a success story. But just like the U.S. occupation in Iraq, the opposite is the case. What do the world ruling elites mean when they say that the occupation has been a success?

I HAVE to use a benchmark to qualify your question. For me, the benchmark was the recent protests on February 29, 2008 that marked the fourth anniversary of Aristide's ouster. More than 10,000 people took to the streets throughout Haiti to demand his return from exile.

Given your earlier questions, you might now begin to understand why. Haiti's occupation after his ouster has been a complete failure. There has been no discernable improvement in the lot of the average Haitian--quite the contrary, their lot has descended into more poverty and misery.

Again, this is because the priority has shifted away from programs for the poor and a safety net for the most vulnerable to creating more business opportunities for the wealthy elite and their foreign partners.

WHAT CAN people in the U.S. and elsewhere do to support the resistance movement against the occupation?

I KNOW of projects on the ground that folks can support. The best alternative at this moment is the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund or HERF.

The most important act of solidarity is choosing whom you work with. They most closely reflect my own experiences and values for working in solidarity with grassroots organizations that are working to rebuild their lives following the ouster of Aristide and the brutal years of repression that followed. It is about creating an alternative to the NGO model of social engineering that allows for Haitians to lead in their own communities for sovereignty and economic and social justice.

Link:
Neoliberal roots of Haiti’s food crisis

 

[loyola llothta]

i was looking up the area Mirebalais and i seen alot nefarious operations by the "friends of Haiti." Also remember Mirebalais is one of the area the UN brought and spread cholera :

Clinton Foundation spend $45 million on a hotel in port-au-prince in haiti to house aid workers, investors and visitors but not actual Haitians.

it was then placed in the control of Digicel company( Foreign Caribbean Cell phone provider) that donated over $10,000,000 million to the Clinton Foundation. the Hotel operate under the Marriott brand(Marriott Hotel and Resorts) after it was completed in 2014 (Construction was set the begin of 2012). Marriott International, Inc. donated over $100,000.00 to the Clinton Foundation.

Donors name:
AUSAID
Stephen L. Bing
Commonwealth of Australia
COPRESIDA
Tom Goisano
J.B and M.K Pritzker Family Foundation
Kingdom of Norway [Government of Norway]
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD)
Denis J. O'Brien and Digicel
Cheryl and Haim Saban & The Saban Family Foundation
Susie Tompkins Buell Fund of the Marin Community Foundation
Swedish Postcode Lottery [The Swedish Postcode Lottery]
The Elma Foundation
The Hunter Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation
The Victor Pinchuk Foundation
The Wasserman Foundation
Tracfone Wireless, INC
Theodore W. Watt


Madeline and Alan Blinder [previously listed separately]
Malaria No More UK
Management Sciences For Health
Margaret A. Cargi Foundation
Max Markson
Marriott International, Inc.
Stephanie Pace Marshall
Marco V. Masotti and racy Stein[Marco V. Masotti]
Hani H Masri
The Honorable and Mrs Terry McAuliffe
Frank J. Mckenna

https://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/28/world/americas/haiti-hotel-clinton/index.html…

https://clintonfoundation.org/contributors?category=%24100%2C001%20to%20%24250%2C000&page=4…





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Throwback but

 

[Bawon Samedi]

 

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SCHOOLS FINALLY REOPENED ON MONDAY DEC. 7TH

 

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SCHOOLS FINALLY REOPENED ON MONDAY DEC. 7TH

Did the violence magically stop?

 

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Did the violence magically stop?

Schools reopen after months of unrest

The Associated Press
Students listen to school director Jean-Marc Charles at the Lycée school, which reopened about a week earlier than other schools in Petion-Ville, Haiti, on Thursday, November 28, 2019. Some Haitian children have begun to return to school after classes halted during months of violent unrest.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP):

Protected by police patrols, thousands of Haitian children began to return to school Monday after months of violent unrest forced schools to shut around the country.

Some schools were about a quarter full in response to the Education Ministry’s call last week to reopen public and private schools. Others had only a handful of students or didn’t open at all.

Like virtually all government offices and private businesses, Haitian schools closed during more than two months of protests aimed at pressuring President Jovenel Moïse to leave office. Protesters say Moïse has mismanaged the economy and tolerated corruption. Moïse says he is trying to steer the country towards greater stability and will not cede to what he calls unconstitutional demands for him to leave office before his term is over.

High-school senior Yollande Chery arrived at her school to find only four other students and one teacher.

“It hurts knowing that in other countries, schools are in session,” she said. “Staying home is not what I want to do. I want to be at school with my friends.”

At the public Lycée de Petionville, in a relatively prosperous section of the capital, about 400 children showed up for class. The school holds about 2,000 students when at full enrollment.

Director Jean-Marc Charles said the school had been trying to keep older students up to date by sending them homework assignments through online chat program WhatsApp.

He said the school would hold classes on Saturdays and eliminate all but a couple of days of Christmas vacation in order to help students try to catch up on their studies.

He said that the school had no choice but to close during the protests, which included roadblocks, clashes with police, and ransacking of local businesses.

“Protests were happening while kids were in the classroom,” he said. “That was causing panic, and kids couldn’t go home sometimes due to roadblocks. That was traumatic.”

In other cities, such as Gonaives in northern Haiti, many schools were closed because of continued roadblocks and fear of violence.

The same was true in neighbourhoods of Port-au-Prince, where administrators declined to open Monday despite the government call for classes to restart.

Marie-Bernard Noel, 39, supports her three children by selling snacks of boiled eggs and peanut-butter sandwiches to students at the Lycée de Petionville.

She said Monday that school reopening would help her make a living, but she was deeply frustrated that the private school where she sends her seven-year-old and four-year-old remained shut.

“I’ve had to use my savings to feed my kids,” she said. “Everyone has lost out. The country has lost out.”

 

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Miami Herald is doing a project about Haiti, ten years after the earthquake.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article237830414.html

Here is one of the videos

 

[loyola llothta]

Miami Herald is doing a project about Haiti, ten years after the earthquake.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article237830414.html

Here is one of the videos

Miami Herald was part of the project selling out haiti to Clintons. The wikileaks shows that

Miami Herald been promoting US right wing policy especially on Haiti, Cuba, and Venezuela

 

[loyola llothta]

1955 - #Haiti President Paul Magloire meets Pres. Eisenhower in Washington. Colonel Magloire was a US lackey who seized power in a coup against populist President Dumarsais Estimé whose social reforms made him an enemy of Washington and the local elite. And the cycle continues.

 

[loyola llothta]

1986 - Dictator and coup plotter Henri Namphy who seized power after the fall of the Duvalier dictatorship and carried out frequent massacres, visited Washington to meet with President Reagan who supported his dictatorship diplomatically, monetarily, and militarily.

 

[loyola llothta]

They've been trying to install a dictatorship in #Haiti since after the 2004 coup. Weeks after the president was selected by the US, he made his dictatorial ambitions very clear after traveling to the Dominican Republic to meet with the late exiled puppet dictator Henri Namphy.

 

[loyola llothta]

The Catholic Church - a longtime enemy of democracy in #Haiti..supporter of coups and dictatorships - is still pushing for dialogue. While other nations are holding their corrupt, criminal politicians accountable, Apostolic Nuncio Eugene Nugent wants Haitians to embrace them.

 

[loyola llothta]

Puppets of the Caribbean unite in Jamaica, including #Haiti's puppet Foreign Minister Edmond Bocchit. Pompeo is a playground bully who's telling Caribbean nations who not to play with. Remember, ingrates, when the IMF was ravaging your economies, Venezuela threw the lifeline.

 

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