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Clinton Foundation made

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 03:17:00 +0000

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Clinton Foundation made billionss on Haitian relief you know - funded all their Epstein outings.

Oy, the children have proven

artappraiser — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 00:05:52 +0000

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Oy, the children have proven time and again they can't clean up their own government, but when the international community tries to help, lefties don't like the in loco parentis thing and start conspiracizing

New Haiti leader with international backing to take charge

By DÁNICA COTO @ AP.com, 2 hours ago'

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A new prime minister supported by key international diplomats will take charge of Haiti, an official said Monday — a move that appeared aimed at averting a leadership struggle following the assassination of President Jovenal Moïse.

Ariel Henry, who was designated prime minister by Moïse before he was slain but never sworn in, will replace the country’s interim prime minister, Haiti Elections Minister Mathias Pierre told The Associated Press.

It wasn’t immediately clear how quickly Claude Joseph, who has been leading Haiti with the backing of police and the military since the July 7 assassination of Moïse, would step down.

“Negotiations are still in course,” Pierre said, adding that Joseph would go back to being minister of foreign affairs. There was no immediate comment from Joseph.

In an audio recording, Henry referred to himself as prime minister and called for unity, saying he would soon announce the members of what he called a provisional consensus government to lead the country until elections are held.

“I present my compliments to the Haitian people who have shown political maturity in the face of what can be considered a coup. ... Our Haitian brothers gave peace a chance, while leaving the possibility that the truth could one day be restored,” Henry said.

“Now it is up to all the national leaders to walk together in unity, towards the same goal, to show that they are responsible.”

The political turnover followed a statement Saturday from a key group of international diplomats that appeared to snub Joseph as it called for the creation of “a consensual and inclusive government.”

“To this end, it strongly encourages the designated Prime Minister Ariel Henry to continue the mission entrusted to him to form such a government,” the statement from the Core Group said.

The Core Group is composed of ambassadors from Germany, Brazil, Canada, Spain, the U.S., France, the European Union and representatives from the United Nations and the Organization of American States.

On Monday, the U.N. issued a statement calling on Joseph, Henry and other national stakeholders “to set aside differences and engage in constructive dialogue on ways to end the current impasse.”

The U.N. added that Joseph and Henry made significant progress in the past week and that it supports dialogue to find “minimal consensus” for holding fair legislative and presidential elections.

Monique Clesca, a Haitian writer, activist and former U.N. official, said she doesn’t anticipate any changes under Henry, whom she expects to carry on Moïse’s legacy. But she warned Henry might be viewed as tainted because of the international backing that preceded his taking power.

“There is not only a perception, but the reality that he has been put there by the international community, and I think that’s his burden to carry,” she said.

“What we’re calling for is for Haitians to really say this is unacceptable. We do not want the international community stating who ought to be in power and what ought to be done. It is up to us.”

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday that the Biden administration “welcomes reports that Haitian political actors are working together to determine a path forward in the country.” [....]

the thing that slays me about this situation is that lefties complain that the colonizers are once again interfering for their own benefit, but what they forget: THERE IS NOTHIING THERE TO BENEFIT FROM! If there was any reasonable potential of any kind, the Dominican Republic would have grabbed at it, but instead, Haiti is such a land of doom that they basically wall themselves off from the madhouse that is worse than their own...

really sucks when people try to help and end up being called colonizers...if the isolationism some lefties seem to like was an actuality, there would be no Haiti anymore to have to deal with...

This outfit would have the

artappraiser — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 20:17:16 +0000

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This outfit would have the connections to know, and they don't know:

#Haiti | While details are beginning to emerge about the make-up of the hit squad that murdered Haiti's president, competing theories have so far failed to provide any real motive for the high-profile hit. https://t.co/2PneBzDaFi
— InSight Crime (@InSightCrime) July 12, 2021

opposition leader hired DC

artappraiser — Sun, 11 Jul 2021 14:13:55 +0000

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opposition leader hired DC lobbyist two days before assassination, they're just sayin' -

“We condemn the killing strongly, very strongly,” he said in an interview. “It’s a sad time for Haiti. It’s a dark day for Haiti.” https://t.co/ooW9K3fSxe
— New York City Patch (@NYC_Patch) July 11, 2021

also of interest -

A challenging argument https://t.co/kdN96AH8mY
— David Frum (@davidfrum) July 10, 2021

WARNING, Haiti is the perfect

artappraiser — Sun, 11 Jul 2021 14:09:34 +0000

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WARNING, Haiti is the perfect Qanon storm--I ran across this little bit in general search which gives an idea-DEEP STATE + Clintons + Catholic church (pedophiles!) + U.N. and assorted NGO'S (black helicopters, human trafficking)

DS FBI in Action:
FBI agents are sent to Haiti later on this week to make sure all the evidence related to Clinton Foundation and its crimes in Haiti are all destroyed and clear up.

No US Army is deployed to Haiti as DS has no power over it.

Stay tuned:https://t.co/T0KmaCMsqd https://t.co/6fZUyvFeWw
— The Communist America for Biden (@Miguel18011505) July 11, 2021

what else? they already worked China in there. Bermuda triangle is in the hood...

You pegged it. I thought more

artappraiser — Sun, 11 Jul 2021 14:01:48 +0000

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You pegged it. I thought more on that and other things. Way past time to stop the praise of Haiti as being the one of the first "anti-colonialist slaves started their own revolution and democracy" YADDA YADDA. That was then this is now. Quit blaming the rest of the world now and white supremacy yadda yadda. The rest of the world has tried to help and paid over and over and over. Your Dominican neighbors want nothing to do with you, that might be a clue.

While an admirable accomplishment they CLEARLY didn't have the savvy of the writers of the U.S. constitution and they got a problem there.

I see this over and over and over including an article I just posted on this thread a ruling class that enriches itself while so many go hungry.... the chasm between the gilded lifestyles of Haiti’s elite and the majority of the population

It's CLASS not race.

AND RULE OF LAW. That's fundamental. This reminded me:

The most fundamental lesson is this though: If there were ever a country poised for a wealth explosion under better rules of law - Nigeria is it.
— David Frum (@davidfrum) July 10, 2021

As to Chicago: enquiring minds want to know much more about exactly what the former U.S. president and first lady are doing about the troubles in their supposed "hometown" while they enjoy their Martha's Vineyard estate and making movies and promoting higher edjumcation. Not because they are required to do anything about it, but because it would make me think more highly of them if I knew they were not thinking only of those already climbing the ladder. It's always college, college, college with them. What about the "left behind" who don't go? Lock em up? Again, class not race?

He Went from Banana Exporter

artappraiser — Sun, 11 Jul 2021 13:36:56 +0000

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He Went from Banana Exporter to President: ‘I Am Not a Dictator’

The president clung to power in a protracted political battle that earned him many enemies.

By Frances Robles @ NYTimes.com, Updated July 9, 2021

MIAMI — It was a battle from the start for Haiti’s president, Jovenel Moïse.

Even before he took office, Mr. Moïse had to fight off accusations that, as a virtually unknown banana exporter, he was nothing but a handpicked puppet of the previous president, Michel J. Martelly.

“Jovenel is his own man,” Mr. Moïse told The New York Times in 2016, shortly after having won the election, trying to rebut the accusations. He promised to show results within six months in office.

After more than four years in office, he was killed in his home early Wednesday at the age of 53. He left a wife and three children. In his last year in office, as protests against him grew and he declined to step down, he had to defend himself in other ways: “I am not a dictator,” he told The Times earlier this year.

Mr. Moïse was the former president of the chamber of commerce in Port-de-Paix, the country’s northwest region, when he ran for president. When he emerged as a leading candidate in 2015, few people had ever heard of him. They called him “the Banana Man.”

He won a majority of votes in a crowded field where few people had bothered to cast ballots. In interviews, Mr. Moïse often recounted how he had grown up on a large sugar plantation in a rural area of the country, and could relate to the vast majority of Haitians who live off the land. He attended school in the capital, Port-au-Prince. He said he learned how to succeed by watching his father’s profitable farming business.

But his time on that plantation made him think. “Since I was a child, I was always wondering why people were living in such conditions while enormous lands were empty,” he said. “I believe agriculture is the key to change for this country.”

He ran a large produce cooperative that employed 3,000 farmers.

But during his time in office, Mr. Moïse was widely accused of behaving like a strongman who tried to consolidate power.

In 2019, an inspector general’s report examining PetroCaribe funds generated from Venezuela’s oil donations accused him of embezzlement. Two of Mr. Moïse’s companies had billed to build the same road, the report said, which critics believed was a scheme to generate money to pay for his campaign. People wondered: What was a banana company doing building roads?

He was also accused of having used powerful violent gangs to suppress political opposition.

“The involvement of various Moïse administration officials and police officers in planning and executing attacks point to a state policy to attack civilians,” a study this year by the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School said.

In a dispute over when his term should end, he declined to step down and ruled by decree as the terms of nearly every elected official in the country expired and no elections were held.

He tried to push through a new constitution that would have given his office more power and the ability to secure more terms in office. Those plans were derailed by the pandemic and rising insecurity in the country [....]

article has lots of good pics!

Who Paid for That Mansion? A

artappraiser — Sun, 11 Jul 2021 13:29:56 +0000

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Who Paid for That Mansion? A Senator or the Haitian People?

Valued at $3.4 million, a Haitian senator’s Montreal villa has become a potent emblem of the growing gap between Haiti’s impoverished citizens and its wealthy political elite.

By Dan Bilefsky and Catherine Porter @ NYTimes.com, July 10

Caption: Marie Louisa Célestin, the wife of the Haitian senator Rony Célestin, purchased this waterfront villa outright for $3.4 million. Their lavish lifestyle has prompted widespread accusations of corruption within the local Haitian community. Credit...Nasuna Stuart-Ulin for The New York Times

MONTREAL — He is one of the few lawmakers left in Haiti, a close ally of the assassinated president who has kept his seat while the country’s democratic institutions have been whittled away.

As one of only 10 remaining members in all of Haiti’s Parliament, Rony Célestin, a swaggering figure who styles himself as a self-made multimillionaire, belongs to a tiny circle of leaders with the legal authority to steer the nation out of crisis now that the president is dead.

But to many Haitians, Mr. Célestin is also a symbol of one of their biggest grievances: a ruling class that enriches itself while so many go hungry.

The sprawling $3.4 million villa, with its sweeping driveway, home cinema, wine cellar and swimming pool overlooking a lake, was among the most expensive homes ever sold in one of Quebec’s most affluent neighborhoods, and the purchase set off a corruption investigation into Mr. Célestin by officials in Haiti.

The villa has become emblematic of the chasm between the gilded lifestyles of Haiti’s elite and the majority of the population, who on average earn less than $2.41 a day. Mr. Célestin’s ownership has incited outrage over capital flight — legal and illicit — that drains money from Haiti and weakens the country’s institutions.

Mr. Célestin vehemently denies any wrongdoing, describing himself as a savvy entrepreneur whose success and donations to the election campaign of the assassinated president, Jovenel Moïse, have afforded him a variety of privileges, including the ability to pay for the villa and get his wife a job at the Haitian consulate in Montreal.

Caption: Rony Célestin
from a Facebook post
in 2017

"I have enough influence, if I wanted to make her an ambassador, that would happen,” he told The New York Times.

In recent months, as the country erupted in protest over abuse of power by the political elite, Mr. Célestin has been parrying accusations of corruption from Haitian activists over his purchase of a mansion almost 2,000 miles away in Canada.

But The Times found little or no indication in Haiti of the thriving businesses that Mr. Célestin cites as the source of his great wealth. Some appear to operate on a much smaller scale than he claimed, if at all in some cases.

His lawyer declined to provide details about his businesses with the anticorruption inquiry in Haiti underway. Anger over the mansion became so pitched that some members of Montreal’s Haitian community hid in the bushes around the home in Laval, an affluent suburb, and sneaked onto the grounds, hoping to confront Mr. Célestin and his family [....]

Haiti & Chicago fighting it

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 10 Jul 2021 19:01:12 +0000

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Haiti & Chicago fighting it out for "Most whack place on the planet" - never cease to surprise

Haiti Calls U.S. for Troops,

artappraiser — Sat, 10 Jul 2021 05:24:00 +0000

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Haiti Calls U.S. for Troops, After Wild Day of Gunfights and Suspicion

At least 20 people were arrested in the assassination of the Haitian president — 18 Colombians and 2 Americans of Haitian descent — on a day of deepening mystery.

By Natalie Kitroeff, Anatoly Kurmanaev, Catherine Porter and Julie Turkewitz @ NYTimes.com, July 9

After 24 hours of wild gun battles with suspects in the assassination of Haiti’s president, the nation’s authorities announced the arrests of 20 people and called on the United States to send troops to help protect crucial infrastructure.

Haiti’s remarkable request for military assistance from the United States, a former colonial overlord that has repeatedly intervened in the nation’s affairs, is a measure of how deeply shaken the nation has been by days of chaos and intrigue. As new developments unfolded at a dizzying pace on Friday, the mystery over who was ultimately behind the assassination only deepened.

On the streets, vigilantes prowled for suspects, and the police killed at least three people in gunfights. The vast majority of those arrested have turned out to be from Colombia — former military men said to have turned mercenaries — as questions arose about why it had been so easy for attackers to burst into President Jovenel Moïse’s home and kill him, seemingly with no shots fired from security staff.

And in a brewing political crisis, suspicion has prompted what may shape up to be a standoff between rival governments.

Of the 20 people detained by the police, 18 were identified as Colombians, and two as Americans of Haitian descent, with five more suspects said to be on the loose.

Officials in Colombia said that at least 13 of the men used to be in the Colombian military, and that two of them had been killed. The two Americans arrested said in an interview with a Haitian judge that they were not in the room when Mr. Moïse was killed and that they had worked only as interpreters for the hit squad. One said he had answered an internet ad for the job.

The Haitian authorities summoned four of the president’s security figures for questioning next week, as prosecutors sought to unravel exactly how armed assassins could have breached the complex security operation guarding Mr. Moise’s personal residence without encountering much resistance.

But while Haitian officials have pointed to “foreign involvement,” U.S. officials and many observers within Haiti are increasingly questioning whether the attack was planned with the cooperation of the nation’s own security apparatus. The State Department told lawmakers recently that there were no reports that the attackers injured any guards or even exchanged gunfire with them.

“The group that financed the mercenaries want to create chaos in the country,” said Mathias Pierre, Haiti’s minister in charge of elections, who said that the Haitian government had requested American forces to help protect the country’s airport, port and fuel reserves, among other crucial infrastructure.

“Attacking the gas reserves and airport might be part of the plan,” Mr. Pierre said.

The Haitian ambassador to the United States also requested assistance from the F.B.I. in the investigation of the assassination.

In Washington, the White House press secretary, Jen Psaki, said that F.B.I. and Department of Homeland Security officials would go to Port-au-Prince “as soon as possible” to assess how to help. But on Haiti’s request for American troops, a senior Biden administration official said, “There are no plans to provide U.S. military assistance at this time.”

Haiti lurched closer toward an outright internal power struggle on Friday [....]

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