Haiti's crisis has arrived, and the U.S. reverts to Banana Wars mode
About a month ago I posted Haiti is on the verge of a complete meltdown.
Needless to say, the meltdown is now happening.
Let's get something out of the way: I will not shed a tear for Haiti's late President Jovenel Moïse.
Prime Minister Claude Joseph said a group of people attacked the president's private residence and killed him, calling it an "odious, barbaric" act.
"Haiti has lost a true statesman who was committed to progressing our country's democratic transition and fighting corruption," Joseph said.
None of that is true, except that the president was killed.
He was corrupt. He was a murderer. He personally caused many of Haiti's current problems.
If anything, there is a small chance that this could turn out to be what Haiti needed.
If I need to be more clear.
The problem is that just when you think things can't get any worse in Haiti, things can always get worse. A state of siege was declared.
Haiti's airports are closed, as is its border with the Dominican Republic.
But fear not! The United States knows what's important - our exports.
Unrest on the island nation of Haiti — especially after the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse — has La. Rep. Clay Higgins concerned about the state of U.S. rice shipments to the country.Higgins sent a letter to the U.S. State Department’s Acting Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor “calling for increased assistance in securing U.S. rice and other food shipments in Haiti,” according to a press release from Higgins’ office today.
“Haiti is the top market for U.S.-grown milled rice and has been a loyal and growing market for many years, and the people of Haiti have a strong demand for our product,” stated Higgins in his letter. “In recent years, we have shipped about 450,000 metric tons of rice valued at more than $200 million to Haiti annually. Unfortunately, the unrest has made unloading rice shipments in Haiti difficult and dangerous. Because of the value of rice as a staple food in Haiti, shipments are prioritized as targets by local gangs and even hired, armed security is unable to prevent theft. These armed robberies often result in the shipment not being delivered to its intended destination.”
There are two BIG ironies in this one statement.
First of all, the murder of President of Haiti Vilbrun Guillaume Sam by insurgents in 1915 was just the excuse used for the U.S. invasion of occupation of Haiti in 1915. The real reason was Wall Street greed.
In 1914, National City Bank and BNRH began to plan the destabilization of Haiti in order to pressure the United States to intervene. John H. Allen of BNRH stated that if the United States permanently occupied Haiti, he supported National City Bank acquiring all shares of BNRH, believing that it would "pay 20% or better"... United States Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan relied on an executive and lobbyist of National City Bank, Roger Farnham, for information regarding Haiti. Farnham persuaded Secretary Bryan to have the United States invade Haiti during a telephone call on January 22, 1914.
So American businessmen asking for yet another invasion of poor Haiti because the American-supported president of Haiti got himself killed by being way too corrupt, is way too familiar.
Secondly, and this is the big one, concern about U.S. rice shipments to Haiti is disgusting given our history here.
A leading aid agency has called on the United States to stop subsidising American rice exports to Haiti, the poorest country in the western hemisphere, because it says the policy undermines local production of food.Former US President Bill Clinton, one of the architects of the subsidies to US farmers - and who is now, paradoxically, the co-chair of Haiti's earthquake recovery Commission - is quoted by Oxfam as saying that the policy was "a mistake".
"It may have been good for some of my farmers in Arkansas, but it has not worked," said Mr Clinton, a frequent visitor to Haiti.
"I have to live every day with the consequences of the lost capacity to produce a rice crop in Haiti to feed those people, because of what I did."The aid agency says the $434m (£274m) paid annually in domestic US rice subsidies is more than the total US aid to Haiti of $353m.
The Oxfam report said subsidies paid to American farmers meant the rice they export to Haiti - known locally as Riz Miami or "Miami Rice" - is cheaper than locally produced rice.
The foreign rice that is "dumped" in Haiti therefore exacerbates the rural-urban drift that has seen the population of the capital Port-au-Prince balloon out of control as farmers who cannot feed themselves move to the city in search of employment.
To use our rice exports to Haiti as an excuse to invade and occupy Haiti yet again is just criminal.
If you are wondering what the Biden Administration thinks, consider that they just endorsed Juan Guaido again, despite him not even being an elected official anymore.
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Look what I came across.
https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/bill-clinton-once-enjoyed-bright-lega...
I updated the essay
It's much worse than you think, and the U.S. just can't wait to screw over Haiti again.
Do you think this was a false flag operation
to be blamed on China?
After all, Jovenel Moise's "best before date" had expired and there was widespread anger, violence and protests towards him by the Haitian people in the proceeding months. It was highly unlikely that he could have got elected despite massive manipulation of the Haitian election by the US. That's why elections had already been postponed.
The US had even used the UN to force the election but China voted to prevent it.
As far as the US was concerned, Moise had become useless on all fronts and was therefore expendable - he was worth more dead than alive. His assassination could be manipulated and weaponized against China.
Here is the opening salvo:
The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America
The crank on the Wurlitzer is being turned:
sounds about right
Haiti corporate executives didn't like a policy advocated by a senior official so they eliminated the obstacle. One from the CIA playbook. Corp Instigated Anarchy. In this case I don't see it being in the empire's better interest. But it will be spinned as bad China, bad Haiti here in the land of the gullible.
It is better to develop ties with China. Taiwan is to become the US empire's new spring board.
Not sure the reporter got the last bit quite right.
By China developing partnerships with those country's which have been stiffed by the US makes sense. That is not so much world domination as it is repairing broken economies.
Wake up america!
Haiti: the danger of a good example must be stopped
Joe Biden will solve everything! LOL
And this was before he got dementia!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Can't allow those darn French colonies
make a revolution against them 'mercans'. Or did I mix that up with something like 'they deserve to die in hell'?
I think we all deserve to die in hell. At least you can't freeze to death in that kind of hell. Always look at the bright side. /sigh/s
So, who deserves more to die in hell, the French Colonialists or the American ones?
https://www.euronews.com/live
What does "complete meltdown" REALLY mean, though?
It's not going to sink into the sea a la Thera/Atlantis, and we've still got ~1,000,000,000 years before Sol achieves its halcyon and makes our planet uninhabitable (I favor plans to make a neo-Ptolemaic mini-sun and turn "the Good Ship Planet Earth" into something we can steer through the void, but THAT can only be tackled once the idiots, psychopaths, and devolutionaries are cleared out)...
...SO, what DOES a "complete meltdown" really look like - especially in a country that ALREADY has almost nothing to lose? What's left for them to become, The Dark-Skinned Flintstones??? Talk about hitting Bedrock.
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
This is how the CIA rules Haiti
and stole its future and resources.
Mar 25, 2021
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3uvLaoU5Lo]
Thank you CB, for the video.
It is a very clear and crushing analysis of the history.
We can’t let the first free black republic be free now (or ever), can we. The history of slavery is devastating, with little hope for the future.
Rule #0: NEVER GIVE UP.
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
"What kind of person would DO such a thing...?"
https://www.yahoo.com/news/latest-taiwan-says-11-arrested-133806551.html...
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!