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Sunday, February 17, 2019

Sooo, what's going on in Haiti ?


Haiti is about 5000 km from Canada.
Venezuela is more than 6000 km from Canada.

Canada has had a Haitian born  Governor General,   Michaelle Jean who served Canada from 2005 - 2010. Her parents had  migrated to Canada when she was 11 years old. 

Canada has close to a quarter million Haitian Canadians, with the Province of Quebec having the largest contingency.

However, Canada, under the "diversity is our strength" pretender Justin Trudeau has deemed it fit to keep mum about the Haitian dictator and the unrest going on in that island nation and instead have had the hair-tossing Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland form a criminal cabal calling itself The Lima Group to plot and scheme a coup to overthrow the legitimate government of Venezuela.

Can hypocrisy be ever so blatantly evident???

The dictator in Haiti is the USA's buddy dictator.  He gives them his vote at the UN or wherever and whenever required,  never mind whether it's doing the right thing or not.  He jumps higher than needed when the US says "jump".  He jumps for Canada too.

He is their "bitch" as they say in the prison lingo.  

Below are some write-ups, tweets, and videos which gives us an inkling of the trouble brewing in the nation where USA's and Canada's bitch has been siphoning off the money meant for the Haitian citizens.  A large part of that money came from free oil supplied by Venezuela against whose government the bitch government of Haiti beholden to USA/Canada voted against.


Kim Ives at GreenLeft
How Trump's attacks on Venezuela triggered a revolution in Haiti

Chaos reigned in Haiti for a seventh straight day on February 13, as people continue to rise up against President Jovenel Moïse over his corruption, arrogance, false promises and straight-faced lies.
But the crisis will not be solved by Moïse’s departure, which appears imminent.

Today’s revolution shows all the signs of being as profound and unstoppable as the one that took place 33 years ago against dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier and triggered five years of popular tumult.

Despite fierce repression, massacres, a bogus election and three coups d’état, the uprising culminated in the remarkable December 1990 landslide election of anti-imperialist liberation theologian Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

At a time when Nicaragua’s left-wing Sandinistas and the Soviet Union had just been vanquished, the Haitian people defeated Washington’s election engineering for the first time in Latin America since Salvador Allende’s victory in Chile two decades earlier.

Haiti’s example inspired a young Venezuelan army officer, Hugo Chávez, to adopt the same playbook. Chávez's election in 1998 helped kick off the “pink tide” of left and centre-left governments across South America.

Just as Washington fomented a coup against Aristide on September 30, 1991, it carried out a similar one against Chávez on April 11, 2002. But the latter was thwarted after two days by the Venezuelan people and the army’s rank-and-file.

Despite this victory, Chávez understood that Venezuela’s political revolution could not survive alone and that Washington would use its vast subversion machinery and economic might to wear down his project to build “21st century socialism”. Chávez knew his revolution had to build bridges too, and set an example for, his Latin American neighbours, who were also under the US’s thumb.
Using Venezuela’s vast oil wealth, Chávez began an unprecedented experiment in solidarity and capital seeding, the PetroCaribe Alliance, which was launched in 2005 and eventually spread to 17 nations across the Caribbean and Central America. It provided cheap oil products and favourable credit terms to member nations, throwing them an economic life-line when oil was selling for $100 a barrel.

By 2006, Washington had punished the Haitian people for twice electing Aristide (1990, 2000) with two coups d’état (1991, 2004) and two foreign military occupations carried out under the auspices of the United Nations. That year, the Haitian people managed to win a sort of stalemate by electing René Préval (an early Aristide ally) as president.........


 






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