MintPressNews (MPN) bracht gisteren een artikel van Alexander Rubinstein
waarin deze het nieuws bracht (althans nieuws voor mij) dat er 8
huurlingen, waarvan 5 uit vooral de VS werken voor de president en de
regering van Haïti, hoewel verdere berichtgeving over verschillende
aantallen spreekt. Voorts zou er een Serviër zijn opgepakt, dat laatste is
van belang daar journalisten Max Blumenthal en Dan Cohen onlangs
ontdekten dat de door de VS ingezette Venezolaanse couppleger Guaidó
werd opgeleid in Servië…….
De
politie pakte deze huurlingen op terwijl zij wapens,
munitie, communicatieapparatuur, drones en voertuigen transporteerden…….
MPN trok
onlangs een vergelijking tussen het Gele Hesjes protest in Frankrijk
en de protesten in Haïti, daar de protesten in Frankrijk begonnen na
de melding dat de energieprijzen omhoog zouden gaan…. Beide
protesten gingen ook in tegen het bevoordelen van de welgestelden en
het afknijpen van het grootste deel van de bevolking, voorts trad de politie in beide
gevallen uiterst gewelddadig op tegen de
demonstranten……
Je zou
denken, gezien de situatie in Venezuela dat de VS wel aan de kant van
de Haïtiaanse demonstranten zal staan, daar de VS maar niet kan
ophouden over de armoede in Venezuela* en zich daarbij achter de demonstranten heeft geschaard, maar nee beste bezoeker, de
VS kan het prima vinden met de regering en president Jovenel
Moïse in Haïti en de opgepakte huurlingen zouden werkzaam zijn geweest voor een
veiligheidsonderdeel van de speciale paleis politie…… Ofwel zij
moeten meehelpen om de grote protesten neer te slaan, protesten die
al meer dan 10 dagen lang aanhouden in Haïti, maar volgens de Haïti Information Project (HIP) worden deze huurlingen vooral ingezet om politieke tegenstanders uit
de weg te ruimen….
Hier een video van een jaar geleden, waaruit ten overvloede blijkt dat de Haïtiaanse bevolking niets van de VS en Trump moet hebben:
Haiti:
Police block anti-Trump protesters from reaching US embassy
Lees het
volgende artikel van Rubinstein (door mij overgenomen van Anti-Media) en zie met welke verschillende maten
de VS terreurmachine kan meten, waarmee ten overvloede nog eens wordt
aangetoond dat het de VS te doen is om olie en coltan als het om
Venezuela gaat >> als daar een bloedige rechtse dictator had gezeten, was er wat betreft de VS niets aan de hand geweest, zelfs als deze
dagelijks meerdere slachtoffers zou maken onder de demonstranten…..
Tja, socialisme en grondstoffen: de ‘trigger’ voor VS terreur……
Americans
Arrested in Haiti Transporting Weapons Cache Amid Uprising
February
18, 2019 at 10:24 pm
Written
by Alexander
Rubinstein
(MPN) — Even
as U.S. President Donald Trump seeks to inspire a military coup
against the elected president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, evidence
is mounting that the U.S. government is enabling American mercenaries
to violently quell a popular uprising in Haiti.
MintPress
News previously examined the
parallels between the uprising in Haiti and the Yellow Vest movement
in France: both explicitly take aim at the economic oligarchy and
government austerity policies; both have been the subject of violent
crackdowns by the police; and the governments of both countries have
gotten a free pass from Washington and its sympathetic media.
Five
Americans and three others were arrested in Haiti on Sunday after
they were discovered transporting a cache of weapons. Haitians have
been engaged in an all-out uprising against the government for the
past 10 days.
Earlier
this month, MintPress
News reported on
an arms shipment from the United States uncovered by Venezuelan
authorities. Later, it was revealed that
the plane that transported the weapons was linked to the Central
Intelligence Agency.
Now,
in Haiti, which has been in an all-out uprising for the past 10 days
against corruption and fuel prices, another cache of arms has been
discovered with its own links to the U.S. Haitian police reportedly
arrested five Americans, one Serb, one Russian, and one Haitian who
were heavily armed on Sunday, though conflicting reports indicate
that six or seven Americans and one Serb were arrested, however.
Pictures
of what are believed to be some of their passports viewed online
by MintPress
News include
multiple American ones and one from the Republic of Serbia. As
journalists Dan Cohen and Max Blumenthal recently
uncovered,
Juan Guaidó, the leader of the U.S.-backed coup in Venezuela, was
trained in Serbia.
8 hommes lourdement armés- 7 étrangers et un Haïtiens- ont été arrêtés ce dimanche 17 février par la PNH. Leurs armes automatiques, leurs moyens de communication et leurs véhicules ont été saisis. Pour le moment ils sont au Commissariat de Port-au-Prince à appris Le Nouvelliste
In
total, authorities discovered six assault rifles, six pistols,
ammunition, bullet-proof vests, drones, telecommunications equipment
and two vehicles, according to the U.S.-funded Voice of America.
Video reportedly showing the men to whom the weapons belonged in
custody has surfaced online.
(Excuus, deze video kan ik niet overnemen, hier de link naar het origineel, een video van 1.20 min., waarop je overigens niet veel meer te zien krijgt, dan de still al weergeeft)
Video of 7 US citizens and a Haitian being held at main police station in downtown PAP, #Haiti. They were detained after a cache of automatic weapons, communications equipment and several license plates were found in their vehicles. Why they were stopped is unknown.
For
nearly two weeks, Haitians have been taking to the streets, vowing to
continue protesting until President Joven Moise vacates his office.
Like the Yellow Vests in France, the intense protests seem aimed at
neoliberal austerity policies. Similarly, the Venezuelan opposition
now headed by Juan Guaidó promises to
usher in neoliberal shock remedies.
Here are pics of weapons and gear found in their possession:
According
to the Haiti Information Project, a number of Haitians believe the
arrested men are “part of a team of mercenaries hired by Joven
Moise and working with [The General Security Unit of the National
Palace special police unit] to extinguish protests.” According to
the online publication Vedeth —
which appears, like the majority of Haitians, to be pro-opposition —
President
Jovenel Moise has brought home mercenaries to assassinate not only a
desperate people who are clamoring for his resignation by
demonstrating peacefully but especially his political opponents.”
Haitians
have complained about heavily armed foreign mercenaries patrolling in
the capital, Port-au-Prince.
Is the govt of #Haiti hiring mercenaries to kill its own people? Lots of foreigners with big guns around the capital. Folks are talking about trying grab one to figure this out
The
country, like its neighbor to the south, Venezuela, is in the throes
of a hard-hitting economic crisis. But while the U.S. meddling
machine has found a cause for concern in Venezuela, it is perfectly
happy with Haiti’s leadership as it puts down unrest in the country
with shocking violence.
President
Trump’s Venezuela regime-change deputy, John Bolton, issued a
condemnatory statement, but it was, unsurprisingly, aimed at the
opposition.
I met with Haitian Foreign Minister @BocchitEdmond yesterday to express the United States’ enduring support for and friendship with Haiti. We urge all of Haiti’s political actors to respect and protect their democracy, engage in dialogue, and put an end to the political violence.
A
Tale of Two Uprisings: Washington’s astroturfed nation-building
from Venezuela to Haiti
In
an article entitled “Haiti’s Unfolding Revolution Is Directly
Linked to Venezuela’s,” journalist and author Kim Ives, who
focuses on Haiti, highlights even more parallels between the nations.
Ives examines the history of U.S. involvement with the two countries,
revealing political dynamics that inform Washington’s hostility
towards Venezuela’s leadership and its open embrace of Haiti’s.
Ives
returns to the 1990 election of anti-imperialist Jean-Bertrand
Aristide, whose victory followed a period in which Haitians were
subjected to “fierce repressesion, massacres, a bogus election, and
three coups d’état.”
The
U.S. fomented a coup attempt one year after Aristide’s victory, and
another in 2004. This Ives compares to the 2002 coup attempt against
Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, who was elected in 1998.
In
a bid to foster stronger alliances against U.S. aggression, Chavez
leveraged Venezuela’s unrivaled oil reserves, starting the
PetroCaribe Alliance in 2005. The program saw Venezuela offering
extremely generous deals on petroleum products to friendly
governments.
“Aristide’s
successor and ally, René Préval, attempted to take Venezuela up on
the deal on his first day in office — to Washington’s
consternation. Two years later, Washington made sure to punish him,”
Ives wrote. He continued:
Following
the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake, the Pentagon, State Department, and
then-head of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission Bill Clinton, with
some flunkies from the Haitian elite, virtually took over the Haitian
government.”
It
was basically downhill for Haiti from there. The U.S. puppet leaders
tanked the government’s PetroCaribe account “which had basically
kept Haiti afloat since its creation in 2008.” In the years since,
huge sums have completely disappeared or been embezzled.
the connection between uprisings in Haiti and unrest in Venezuela is being severely under-discussed. both are results of US imperialist meddling, and the corruption which Haitians are protesting revolves around embezzlement of Venezuela’s PetroCaribe oil subsidies.
The
post-Préval government that began with the presidency of singer
Michel Martelly, who campaigned after the disastrous earthquake in
2010 on a promise to restore the military after it was abolished by
Aristide, continues its line of succession through President Moise,
whom Martelly endorsed.
Within
his first year in office after what was described as
an “electoral coup,” Moise ended the Haitian government’s
PetroCaribe deal. Accordingly, the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
told him raise gas prices, which he then tried to do. That led to a
popular uprising last year, which forced him to reverse the decision.
MintPress
News recently uncovered that
leaked U.S. military documents list the IMF and World Bank
organization as “Financial Instruments and Diplomatic Instruments
of U.S. National Power.”
After
Haiti voted in early January, at a conference of the Organization of
American States, to declare Venezuelan President Maduro
“illegitimate,” it was the “straw that broke the camel’s
back.”
The
deep solidarities between the people of Venezuela and Haiti, Ives
argued, inspired Haitians to rise up and refuse to allow Washington
to pit their neighbors against them.
By Alexander
Rubinstein / Creative
Commons / MintPress
News / Report
a typo
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* Waar de VS zich nooit mee bemoeide toen de arme Venezolanen werden
uitgeknepen in het ‘pré-Chavez tijdperk….’
** Zie: ‘Venezuela >> VS economische oorlogsvoering met gebruikmaking van o.a. IMF en Wereldbank‘
Zie wat betreft Venezuela o.a.: ‘Venezuela: VS bedrijf dat wapens smokkelde is gelinkt aan CIA ‘Black Site’ centra‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht) en: ‘Venezuela: 4 belangrijke zaken aangaande humanitaire hulp waarover de reguliere media niet berichten‘
