PORT-AU-PRINCE — The Haitian government’s request for international military forces to stop the country’s humanitarian crisis and restore security has raised the ire of many Haitians who insist Haitian institutions should take the lead. Calling the crises a ploy to draw in foreign forces in the first place, some also vowed to protest anew against such measures.
“We should chain the doors of all offices of public institutions until Prime Minister Ariel Henry leaves,” said Ebens Cadet, spokesperson of Nou Konsyan, an anti-corruption activist group in Port-au-Prince. “We should also gather in front of the different countries’ embassies in Haiti, including the United States, France and Canada, to make ourselves heard.”
“We do not accept the presence of foreign forces on our territory,” Cadet said.
Henry issued a formal appeal Oct.7 requesting the help of international armed forces to restore order in Haiti amid its spiraling economic, political and criminal crises, aggravated by the re-emergence of a cholera outbreak. The request document, signed by 19 members of Henry’s government, states the leaders are alarmed by the risk of a major humanitarian crisis partly caused by armed gangs and asks for “the immediate deployment of a specialized armed force, in sufficient quantity.”
“It is imperative to restart activities to avoid a complete asphyxiation of the national economy,” the document states.
To many Haitians, the request is a threat to Haiti’s sovereignty, an insult to Haitian people — the chief reasons among a litany cited against foreign military intervention.
“This decision is a sham for the authorities to bring in a foreign force capable of helping them perpetuate their power since they cannot lead,” said Valery Voltaire, a Port-au-Prince social worker.
Cliford Andrieux, a resident of Delmas, is among many in the Port-au-Prince neighborhood who strongly reject the idea of yet another international intervention.
“Ariel Henry is a ‘national threat’ who must be dismissed as head of the country following his call for a foreign force on Haitian soil,” said Cliford Andrieux, resident of Delmas. “If we allow foreign forces to trample our territory, we can start calling ourselves worthless.”
“The bandits who prevent the Haitian people from living are at the service of the inequality system,” he said. “We’d be wrong to believe that foreign forces will come and destroy the system.”
Economist Etzer Emile is among those who believe in supporting Haitian institutions instead.
“Instead of agreeing to strengthen the PNH, equip it, treat it well and grant it the freedom to do its job, our leaders preferred to protect and facilitate the gangs to create an unlivable situation where everyone gets desperate and ends up believing that only the whites can save us,” Emile said.
Nicolas Joseph, a resident of Santo, feels similarly about supporting the Haitian police force over foreigners. However, he added, Haiti’s government must set up trade and job training programs for the most vulnerable and cut off the flow of ammunition and weapons into Haiti.
“A foreign force on Haitian soil is not necessary,” Joseph said. “We need help in materials for the police so that they are well equipped to stop the gangs. We all know that the country has already known several foreign forces, but they have done more harm. After their departure, the insecurity spread like never before.”
Over in the Northern Department, scores of residents are also against the military intervention and said it is part of a plan that will not benefit Haitians.
“Military forces invading Haiti would be the greatest humiliation for us,” said Blondel Joseph, 55, a Saint-Raphael entrepreneur. “They [the international community] created the problems. They wanted to kick us to the ground so we don’t have a choice when they come into the country and rule it again.”
Also, Joseph and some others, say United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) soldiers were accused of rape, human trafficking, having sex with minors and other crimes during their time in Haiti. That’s a downside they would not want to see again.
Others said a special armed force will not resolve the many issues Haiti is facing.
“Certainly their presence will calm the climate and that is all. It will not change the problems facing the country,” Pierre Rubens Ernest said.
If the request is granted, Haiti would be seeing the presence of foreign military forces for the fifth time in about 100 years: a United States occupation from 1915 to 1934; the U.S.-led Operation Uphold Democracy in 1994 to return Jean Bertrand Aristide to power; UN missions under various names between 1995 and 2000; and MINUSTAH from 2004 to 2017.
Fritz Alphonse Jean, the provisional president designated by the Montana Accord, said throughout the history of foreign interventions in Haiti, they have never achieved their objective.
“It’s a national disgrace that in 2022, there are actors waiting with open arms for a military intervention,” Jean said in a youtube video released Oct. 7. “They are waiting for the foreigner instead of working to find a consensus to put the country on the path of progress and social peace.”
Le Canada et Les Casques Bleu, L’ancien Premier Ministre Du Canada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toWwtg2DMeU
UN , There are people watching, this organization is a joke, an enabler of neo-colonists .
The Visual History of the UN’s Blue Hemlets and their Interventions around the world since 1958.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbM9CEfFezE
Le resultat de Les Nations Unis . Il veulent retourner pour faire les meme choses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbWsJlVQhYE
Seulement Les Militaires ont ete retire en Haiti en 2019 apres une demande des Etats Unis , La Force Binuh qui consiste de policiers etrangers reste en Haiti.
https://binuh.unmissions.org/en
Footage of UN peacekeepers (Uruguayans )in Haiti and other countries with UN military missions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkzhxii_8Po
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L’autre pays concerne par les Nations Unis pour envoyers des Forces Armee dans L:affaire Soudan du Sud- Soudan Du Nord, Guerre Civil dans le Soudan Du Sud -Darfur, Instabilite, et les pays regionales et leur interets dans le Soudan comme L’egypte, La Lybie, Le Maroc, et le Mauritanie.
The US Army and The Military Mercenaries in Latin America:
Case in Point :Costa Rica disbanded in favor of Armored and Secret Police Units.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj-TWVF2OQ0
Les Soldats Sri Lankais qui on cause le cholera en 2011 apres leur guerre contre Les Tamils de Elam. Les Nations Unix n’ont pas intervenu.
y and history, the Tamil word used is ‘illankai.’ It was this wide usage of the term illankai and the understanding of its common origin that led to the approval of the term illankai in all the official documents. In fact, it could be argued that it was this welcome degree of understanding that enables the Tamils to identify themselves with this island as their country. The constitution of the day accepted the usage of this term.
However, in recent times there is a demand to use the term Sri Lanka only and leaving out the term illankai.
At least in the English media, ever since the late Mervyn de Silva with his characteristic journalistic flourish called the Tiger-led combat struggle against the state as the’Eelam war,’ the term eelam has gained an ominous significance to the Sinhala reader.
In the minds of the Sinhala people, this word denotes separatism and is associated with L.T.T.E. attacks. The role of the mainstream Sinhala media in creating suspicion in the minds of the Sinhala people has been substantial.
The absence of an institution which would help enable the fostering of understanding between the communities has only worsened the situation, and it’s also true that there had been no effort on the part of the Sri Lankan Tamils to communicate to the Sinhalese the real meaning of the terms they use.
It is true that in the separatist demand made by all the militant organizations, the term Eelam is there, but it is a compound term with the qualifying word Tamil. Thus, the term is Tamil Eelam. In fact, TELO stands for Thamil Eelam Liberation Organization and the short in form L.T.T.E. stands for Liberation Tigers of Thamil Eelam.
The operative part is Thamil Eelam and it means the Tamil part of Eelam. The term Eelam is a synonym for Sri Lanka and has been in use in Tamil literature right from the Cankam Period dating as far back as 200 B.C. to circa 250 A.D. Pattinapalai, a long poem of the Cankam period on Karikala the Chola king, refers to the various imports piled up at the Pukar harbour.
Two of the commodities identified are ‘Eelathu Unavu’, ‘Kalakathu Akkaam.’ The first one means food from Sri Lanka, and the latter refers to products from Kaalakam (kedah). We do not know what the foodstuffs that were sent from Sri Lanka to the southeastern harbour city of Tamil Nadu.
The Tamil- Brahmi inscriptions refer to an ‘Eelathu Kutumbikan,’ meaning a householder from Eelam. Kutumbikan is the Tamil word for ‘gihi’ and therefore refers to a Buddhist. Incidentally, this reference indicates that there has been a free flow of Buddhists from Sri Lanka into Tamil Nadu and vice-versa.
Later day Tamil inscriptions, especially one from the Chola period, refers to ‘Sinhalar Eella Mandilams,’ meaning the Eela regional unit of the Sinhalese. It is quite clear that the Sinhalese themselves had been associated with Eelam. It is a known fact Eelam constituted an administrative unit during the Chola period 1017 to 1070 A.D.
The term Eelam has cultural connotations and the first poet from Sri Lanka participating in the Cankam poetic gatherings was a poet call Eellathu Putan Thevan.
To this day Sri Lankan Tamil literature is referred to as Eelathu Ilakkiyam. The contribution of the Muslims and Up-Country Tamils falls within the Tamil literature of Eelam. The Muslims are equally proud of the term as the Tamils are, especially when the reference is made to Sri Lankan Tamil Literature.
It may come as a big shock to many to know of the etymology of the term Eelam. It is the opinion of learned Tamil scholars like the late Professor Kanapathipillai, that the term Eelam must have been derived from ‘Hela’. Thus in real terms eelam is an integral part of the helaurumaya (The hela heritage).
When, after the 1972 constitution, the Federal Party was pushed toward the formation of the Tamil United Front and towards the declaration of a separate Tamil country, the term Tamil Eelam was not very much in vogue.
It was the Tamil militants who popularized the term Thamil Eelam. Unfortunately, only the word Eelam is retained of this compound form, and this very word itself is now taken to mean a separate Tamil country. Given the long presence of the Tamils in this country and their devotion to this island as their motherland, has invariably led to the use of the term Eelam to denote the entire island.
The Tamil word for Sri Lanka is ILANKAI. It is the Tamilicised form of the word Lanka. In Tamil language there has been no tradition for “LA” to be the initial sound in a word. Thus, the vowel sound E comes first and the word is pronounced as Illankai.
This term it is quite old. Cilapathikaram, the Tamil epic that deals with the history of the Kannaki, the Pattini venerated in the Sinhala Buddhist tradition, narrates how Gajabahu brought the Pattini cult to Sri Lanka.
The famous line in Cilapathikaram runs as follows ‘Kadal chool illankai kayavahu venthan’ and the word illankai is used here to refer to Sri Lanka. Cilapathikaram today is generally taken as a work belonging to the 5th century A.D. Thus the term illankai, too, has been invoked to refer to the island.
In geography and history, the Tamil word used is ‘illankai.’ It was this wide usage of the term illankai and understanding of its common origin that led to the approval of the term illankai in all the official documents. In fact, it could be argued that it was this welcome degree of understanding that enables the Tamils to identify themselves with this island as their country. The constitution of the day accepted the usage of this term.
However, in recent times there is a demand to use the term Sri Lanka only and leaving out the term illankai. The insistence of this usage has led to an interesting situation in which the Tamils, when they wish to refer to the Sinhala government, call it the Sri Lankan state and the security forces two are refered to as Sri Lankan state forces. The implication is quite clear that these institutions have nothing to do with the Tamils.
If we have to develop a sense of understanding between the communities, it is important that the cultures of the other group are recognized and respected.
The deprivation of the use of the term Eelam/Illankai for Sri Lanka would only foster a sense of alienation from this island and anyone who wants a peaceful settlement would understand the Sri Lankan Tamil psyche. It is wrong to impute meanings, which do not exist.
The United Nations is Not doing Doing Anything: Just keep on whining, enable neo colonist , neo imeperialism, and collect exhorbitant dues for unequal reprensentation.
ding to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ most recent report, the number of people forced to flee conflict, violence, human rights violations and persecution has now surpassed 100 million for the first time on record. Of that number, over 26 million are refugees – people who have crossed international borders to find safety — another tragic milestone.
Millions of lives derailed, countless dreams and aspirations shattered. But not all hope is lost.
On May 30, Manyang Lual Jok crossed the stage on McGill’s lower campus to collect his BA in Computer Science and Economics during Spring Convocation, just five years removed from the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya, where he had spent more than half his life. A native of South Sudan, Jok fled his war-torn homeland when he was nine years old.
Jok is the most recent success story of the WUSC McGill Student Refugee Program. Since its establishment in 1986, WUSC McGill – a branch of World University Services Canada (WUSC) – has sponsored over 60 student refugees to resettle in Canada and pursue their education at McGill. Currently, 15 WUSC scholars are pursuing their studies at McGill. WUSC McGill is in full preparation to welcome eight new scholars this fall, including, for the first time, two Afghan scholars. This is WUSC McGill’s largest cohort to date.
Run by students, funded by students
It is a program unlike most others.
WUSC McGill is a student-run club of the Students’ Society of McGill University that provides a year of full financial sponsorship, integration assistance, and a community of support. The program is funded through a $4 levy collected from all McGill students every semester based on student referendum, which is administered by the Scholarships & Student Aid Office.
“The SRP is unique because this peer-to-peer resettlement is not the regular pathway that the government uses to resettle refugees,” says Alice Ishimwe, WUSC McGill’s Student Refugee Program Coordinator. “I’ve been invited to speak in other countries and they don’t have programs like this where youth are doing what organizations and governments usually do.”
Five pillars of the program
World University Service of Canada is a non-profit organization that fosters youth-centered solutions for improved education, economic, and empowerment opportunities to overcome inequality and exclusion in countries across Asia, Africa and the Americas.
WUSC Student Refugee Program Local Committees operate on five pillars: academic integration; social integration; health and well-being; financial support; and self-reliance. WUSC works with over 100 Canadian universities, colleges, and CEGEPs to bring scholars to Canada.
February 2004, US, Canada and Chilean Troops invaded Haiti’s national palace either on the orders of President George Bush II or Haitian President Jean Betrand Aristide asked to be evacuated for fear of a looming civil war threat as the forces of former police Chief Guy Phillipe approached. Following later press reports, it was mentioned it was Bush who called in a favor to Ricardo Lagos , former Chilean President who obliged , and many Haitians who don’t like Aristide never forget him for inviting South African troops to Haiti’s Bicentennial in in January 2004. Now fast foward 2022, with a sizable Haitian diaspora in Chile, a country that facing economic crises and PM Ariel Henri attended the inaguration of the newly elected Chilean President, yet he is focusing on Turkiye(Fka Turkey) controlled by the egomaniac Reyip Edorgan, former Mayor of Istanbul, Former Justice Minister, Former Prime Minister,and now the President who holds great influence in NATO as an associate member with same privileges as the European members Allies.
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ding to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ most recent report, the number of people forced to flee conflict, violence, human rights violations and persecution has now surpassed 100 million for the first time on record. Of that number, over 26 million are refugees – people who have crossed international borders to find safety — another tragic milestone.
Millions of lives derailed, countless dreams and aspirations shattered. But not all hope is lost.
On May 30, Manyang Lual Jok crossed the stage on McGill’s lower campus to collect his BA in Computer Science and Economics during Spring Convocation, just five years removed from the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya, where he had spent more than half his life. A native of South Sudan, Jok fled his war-torn homeland when he was nine years old.
Jok is the most recent success story of the WUSC McGill Student Refugee Program. Since its establishment in 1986, WUSC McGill – a branch of World University Services Canada (WUSC) – has sponsored over 60 student refugees to resettle in Canada and pursue their education at McGill. Currently, 15 WUSC scholars are pursuing their studies at McGill. WUSC McGill is in full preparation to welcome eight new scholars this fall, including, for the first time, two Afghan scholars. This is WUSC McGill’s largest cohort to date.
Run by students, funded by students
It is a program unlike most others.
WUSC McGill is a student-run club of the Students’ Society of McGill University that provides a year of full financial sponsorship, integration assistance, and a community of support. The program is funded through a $4 levy collected from all McGill students every semester based on student referendum, which is administered by the Scholarships & Student Aid Office.
“The SRP is unique because this peer-to-peer resettlement is not the regular pathway that the government uses to resettle refugees,” says Alice Ishimwe, WUSC McGill’s Student Refugee Program Coordinator. “I’ve been invited to speak in other countries and they don’t have programs like this where youth are doing what organizations and governments usually do.”
Five pillars of the program
World University Service of Canada is a non-profit organization that fosters youth-centered solutions for improved education, economic, and empowerment opportunities to overcome inequality and exclusion in countries across Asia, Africa and the Americas.
WUSC Student Refugee Program Local Committees operate on five pillars: academic integration; social integration; health and well-being; financial support; and self-reliance. WUSC works with over 100 Canadian universities, colleges, and CEGEPs to bring scholars to Canada.
February 2004, US, Canada and Chilean Troops invaded Haiti’s national palace either on the orders of President George Bush II or Haitian President Jean Betrand Aristide asked to be evacuated for fear of a looming civil war threat as the forces of former police Chief Guy Phillipe approached. Following later press reports, it was mentioned it was Bush who called in a favor to Ricardo Lagos , former Chilean President who obliged , and many Haitians who don’t like Aristide never forget him for inviting South African troops to Haiti’s Bicentennial in in January 2004. Now fast foward 2022, with a sizable Haitian diaspora in Chile, a country that facing economic crises and PM Ariel Henri attended the inaguration of the newly elected Chilean President, yet he is focusing on Turkiye(Fka Turkey) controlled by the egomaniac Reyip Edorgan, former Mayor of Istanbul, Former Justice Minister, Former Prime Minister,and now the President who holds great influence in NATO as an associate member with same privileges as the European members Allies.
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relations with Türkiye, Chile has opened a new embassy building in the Turkish capital, Ankara.
The building was opened with a ceremony that was attended by distinguished guests, including senior Turkish and foreign diplomats, bureaucrats and deputies.
During his speech, Chile’s ambassador to Türkiye, Rodrigo E. Arcos, underscored his country’s eagerness to further improve relations with Ankara.
Reiterating that Chile was among the first countries to establish diplomatic relations with the nascent Republic of Türkiye, he said: “Since then, we have developed a fraternal relationship based on our common interests, based on our national goals.”
Drawing attention to the intense high-level diplomatic dialogue between the two countries, Arcos praised Turkish diplomacy for its professionalism and its efforts at the regional and global levels.
Identically, Turkish deputy Orhan Kırcalı, president of the Türkiye-Chile Parliamentary Friendship Group, expressed his hope that the building would contribute to the further enhancement of bilateral relations.
“We are working and will continue to work to develop strategies in many areas to improve our cooperation for the benefit of both countries,” he said.
Speaking to Anadolu Agency (AA), Özge Tüysüzoğlu, director of the Chilean Trade Office in Türkiye, drew attention to the fact that Chile is the only country in the Americas with which Türkiye has a free trade agreement.
That Türkiye’s exports to Chile increased by 140% in 2021 proves the success of the agreement, she said, noting that Chilean food exporters seriously consider utilizing Türkiye as a hub to access wider regional markets.
Türkiye, with its location and developed infrastructure, is considered an ideal location, Tüysüzoğlu added.
Türkiye maintains good relations with Chile in all areas. The establishment of the bilateral relations between Türkiye and the Republic of Chile traces back to the Protocol of Consular Affairs signed in 1913, during the Ottoman Empire era. With the Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation signed on Jan. 30, 1926, Chile became the first Latin American country to recognize the new Turkish republic.
Our first diplomatic mission in Santiago became operational in 1930, however, it was closed the following year. Later on, it became operational in 1944 once again and was elevated to the level of an embassy in 1954. On the other hand, the first Embassy of Chile in Türkiye opened in 1940 and the first Chilean Ambassador was appointed in 1957.
Bilateral political relations gained momentum in the mid-1990s. Then Türkiye’s former President H.E. Süleyman Demirel visited Chile on April 1995. This visit paved the way for high-level visits and meetings.
The then-Chilean President H.E. Ricardo Lagos visited Türkiye in 2004 and then-Chilean President H.E. Sebastian Pinera visited Türkiye in 2012.
2016 marked the 90th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Türkiye and Chile. Chilean Foreign Minister H.E. Heraldo Munoz visited Türkiye to address the 8th Ambassadors Conference held on Jan. 12-14, 2016. During this visit, an exhibition of the documents of the two countries from foreign ministries’ archives was opened.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan paid an official visit to Chile within the scope of his visits to the Latin America region from Jan. 31 to Feb. 2, 2016.
Chile is the only country in the Latin America and Caribbean region in which Türkiye has a free trade agreement. The agreement, which was signed on July 14, 2009, is in effect since March 1, 2011.
The trade volume between the two countries was approximately $579.3 million, with Türkiye’s exports totaling $343.8 million and its imports $235.5 million by the end of 2019.
The Petrocaribe Saga Continues: (The Players) RenePreval, Chavez, Maduro, Michel Martelly, Lamothe, Juan Guaido, Biden, Rep. Kennedy, Hillary Cliton, Portia Simpson Miller, Donald Trump, Raul Castro, Jovenel Moise.
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has extended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelan nationals from September 10, 2022, through March 10, 2024, due to the country’s continuing severe political and economic crises.
On September 7, 2022, DHS published instructions in the Federal Register regarding TPS eligibility and how to apply for an extension.
The extension is only available to those already in TPS status. Eligible individuals must apply during the 60-day re-registration period that runs from September 8, 2022, through November 7, 2022. Failure to re-register during that period may result in a loss of TPS. Those with pending registrations or pending employment authorization applications need not re-apply. Upon approval of these pending submissions, applicants will receive a validity period that will extend through March 10, 2024. Those requesting extensions may also apply for travel authorization.
DHS recognizes that it may not be able to adjudicate TPS holder applications to extend an employment authorization document (EAD) prior to expiration. Accordingly, those who timely apply during the re-registration period and have EADs that expire on September 9, 2022, will receive an automatic extension of their employment authorization until September 9, 2023.
Venezuelan students in F-1 status who are suffering severe economic hardship resulting from the crisis in Venezuela are eligible for work authorization and may request to have increased work hours and a reduced course load.
While the renewal applies only to those who already have Venezuelan TPS, DHS may grant late initial registrations if the individual meets specific eligibility requirements, has resided in the United States since March 8, 2021, and has maintained continuous presence since March 9, 2021.
Venezuelans were previously entitled to Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) from January 20, 2021, to July 20, 2022. However, many individuals instead applied for TPS over concern that DHS may not have extended DED. Confirming these concerns, DHS decided to not extend DED. Since then, TPS remains the sole humanitarian option for Venezuelan nationals.
Petrocaribe:
ested in Haiti on charges of conspiring to smuggle 800 kilograms of cocaine into the U.S. and will be arraigned in New York, three people familiar with the case said Wednesday.
The arrest Tuesday, coming just three weeks ahead of key Venezuelan legislative elections, is likely to exacerbate already tense relations between the U.S. and Venezuela and cast a hard look at U.S. accusations of drug trafficking at the highest levels of embattled President Nicolas Maduro’s socialist administration.
The two suspects, Efrain Campos and Francisco Flores, were extradited from Haiti and scheduled to be arraigned Thursday in a federal court in New York, said a U.S. law enforcement official who insisted on anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to discuss the case.
Michael Vigil, a former head of international operations at the Drug Enforcement Administration who was briefed by U.S. authorities about the lengthy undercover operation, said Campos and Flores were arrested in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, after arriving from Venezuela aboard a private plane. Both men were carrying diplomatic passports even though they don’t have diplomatic immunity, Vigil said.
He also said Campos had claimed to law enforcement that he is the son of Flores and stepson of Maduro.
Another person briefed on the incident, who agreed to talk about the case only if not quoted by name, said Campos is the son of a deceased sister of Flores and was partly raised by the first lady and Maduro.
Flores, who Maduro calls the “First Combatant,” is one of the most-powerful members of Venezuela’s revolutionary government and a constant presence alongside her husband whenever he appears in public. The two traveled this week to Saudi Arabia for a summit and she’s expected to be with the president Thursday when he’s scheduled to address the United Nations Human Rights Council at a special meeting in Geneva called at Venezuela’s request.
A former president of the National Assembly who is now running for congress, Flores became romantically involved with Maduro in the 1990s while serving as lawyer for the then-jailed Hugo Chavez. Maduro was one of many leftist activists drawn to the charismatic junior army officer following his arrest for a failed 1992 coup attempt. The two formally wed in 2013 shortly after Maduro was elected.
Venezuela’s Communications Ministry and Foreign Ministry declined to comment about the reported arrests, saying they had no information about the incident. Maduro and Flores didn’t issue any comment, while the president’s Twitter account highlighted his meetings in Saudi Arabia with leaders from the Middle East.
American prosecutors have been steadily stepping up pressure on high-ranking members of Venezuela’s military, police and government officials for their alleged role in making the country an important transit zone for narcotics heading to the U.S. and Europe. The U.S. government says more than 200 tons a year of cocaine flows through Venezuela, about a third of Colombia’s estimated production.
But while several Venezuelan officials, including a former defense minister and head of military intelligence, have been indicted or sanctioned in the U.S., and many more are under investigation, no drug probes had previously touched Maduro’s inner circle.
The arrests come as Maduro’s government is reeling from an economic crisis marked by triple-digit inflation and widespread shortages that have emboldened its opponents. Polls say Venezuelans could hand the ruling socialist party its biggest electoral defeat in 16 years in next month’s legislative elections.
Michael Shifter, president of the Washington-based Inter-American Dialogue think tank, said Maduro might use the arrests as a pretext to postpone the elections.
“He will blame the arrests on U.S. imperialism and see them as an attempt to undermine his government,” Shifter said. “The news could well eclipse some of the mounting, severe criticisms, including from the OAS (Organization of American States) secretary general and throughout the region, aimed at the regime’s abuses against the opposition.”
Without mentioning the arrests, the president of Venezuela’s National Assembly, Diosdado Cabello, used his weekly broadcast Wednesday night to accuse the U.S. of trying to destabilize Maduro’s administration before the elections.
“They attack him everywhere and are going to continue attacking,” Cabello said.
The United Nations is Not doing Doing Anything: Just keep on whining, enable neo colonist , neo imeperialism, and collect exhorbitant dues for unequal reprensentation..
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wondered about the legality of the extradition of Senator Guy Philippe on Thursday January 5th, great is the confusion in the minds of many including our parliamentarians, what say the texts of laws in Haiti ?
First of all, many speak of the agreement signed on 17 October 1997 between US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and President René Préval, which would have served as a legal basis for the extradition. To be precise, none of the articles of this agreement makes mention of extradition, even when interpreting it in the broad sense…
There is indeed an extradition treaty between Haiti and the United States, but it is dated August 9, 1904, and it is stipulated in its article 4 “None of the contracting parties will be bound to deliver its own citizens.”
The amended Haitian Constitution, currently in force, is very clear :
Article 8.1 “The Territory of the Republic of Haiti is nviolable and may not be alienated either in whole or in part by any Treaty or Convention. ”
Article 41 “No person of Haitian nationality may be deported or forced to leave the national territory for any reason whatsoever.
No one may be deprived for political reasons of his legal capacity and nationality.”
Article 42 “No citizen, civilian or military may be distracted from the judges whom the Constitution and the laws assign to him.”
This means, in light of the Constitution, that the intervention of the agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) on Haitian soil in collaboration with the Brigade for the Fight against Narcotic Drugs (BLTS) is unconstitutional.
Moreover, the Haitian laws of August 1912, June and February 2001, dealing with extradition, specify the procedures to be followed, including the intervention of the Ministry of Justice, the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the investigating judge until the acceptance or refusal of extradition. Note that Danton Léger, the Chief Prosecutor, said he had not been kept informed of the arrest of Senator Guy Philippe and was surprised that he had not been transferred to the Public Prosecutor’s Office after his arrest…
Finally, at the international level the fact that Haitian law does not authorize the extradition of its citizens is known. The 2003-2004 and 2005-2006 Reports of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) of the Organization of American States (OAS) recalled that “The Constitution of the Republic of Haiti prohibits Extradition of Haitian citizens” and “Haitian law does not authorize the extradition of Haitian citizens.”
The question that now arises is to know on what legal basis Guy Phlippe has been handed over to the Americans, if however one can still speak of extradition in this case…
So far, neither the de facto President, nor the Prime Minister, nor the Minister of Justice nor the police authorities, not even the American authorities, have given satisfactory explanations on this increasingly opaque case, which generates more questions than answers…
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50 Most Indebted Countries in the World: What Have the UNited Nations Done to help:
The head of the Organization of American States says he won’t interfere in an internal ethics probe into claims he had a romance with a staffer, and he insists he took no action to favor the younger woman allegedly involved
October 9, 2022
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Secretary General of the Organization of American States Luis Almagro speaks during a press conference at the 52nd OAS General Assembly in Lima, Peru, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo)
Secretary General of the Organization of American States Luis Almagro speaks during a press conference at the 52nd OAS General Assembly in Lima, Peru, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo)
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MIAMI — The head of the Organization of American States says he won’t interfere in an internal ethics probe into claims he had a romance with a staffer, and he insists he took no action to favor the younger woman allegedly involved.
Luis Almagro made the comments late Friday from the capital of Peru at the conclusion of the OAS’s annual meeting.
“We’re not going to interfere in any part of the investigation,” Almagro said.
The OAS chief was reacting to a report by The Associated Press that revealed he is facing a probe over his purported relationship with the Mexican-born woman two decades his junior.
Several current and former staffers, as well as regional diplomats, told AP that the relationship between the two was an open secret inside the Washington-based peace and democracy-building organization.
Almagro refused to comment on the relationship, saying he doesn’t like to discuss his private affairs.
But he said he would answer any of the OAS inspector general’s inquiries and was confident he would be absolved of any wrongdoing because he never favored the unnamed staffer in any employment decisions.
“Unfortunately I’m going to be the person least informed about this process because I’m not going to participate in any phase of it,” he said.
Almagro, 59, denied he was ever the woman’s supervisor and the OAS press office said that since 2019 she has worked in the organization’s Secretariat for Strengthening Democracy.
However, in several online bios as well as in photos with Almagro as recently as March, some of them posted to OAS social media accoun
https://www.advocacyinternational.co.uk/project/advocacy-international-in-haiti-defending-and-strengthening-local-democracy
Why the U.N . Security Council is not calling an emergency meeting on this situation , since its founding in San Francisco, yet check how many its troops have been deployed to primary African countries or African people majority based countries, check its records, let it it for itself.It has always backed imperialism no matter what reform or resolution.
Guyana(seat of Caricom) Jamaica, ( ancestral home of Father of Current U.S. Vice President Kamila Harris) (Jamaica, and and defitenely Barbados.
https://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2021/03/01/the-ppp-never-opposed-guyana-becoming-a-republic/
Elections in Europe (Bulgaria Votes 2022) Right in the Middle of the Russo- Ukrainian War.We demand the same for Haiti.Peaceful transfer of Power.
https://www.euronews.com/2022/10/02/bulgaria-election-exit-polls-suggest-victory-for-ex-pm-boyko-borissovs-gerb-party
In Memoriam: Before the Eathquake, and Before the Petrocaribe fiasco.
https://www.ncronline.org/news/people/haitian-activist-priest-jean-juste-dies-62
The Right to Peaceful Assembly and Protest in Haiti: Ariel Henry was not elected, he was chosen by political actors in Haiti along with foreign consulates.He does not have the legal authority to order foreign forces to Haiti without conulting the Haitian parliament and the Haitian people.
Again Brazil: 230 Reais is Not Enough:
NEWS | Sept. 30, 2022
U.S. and Brazil Navy Conduct Bilateral Exercise
By U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command / U.S. 4th Fleet
ATLANTIC OCEAN –
The bilateral exercise between U.S. and Brazilian forces focused on maritime security and strengthening maritime partnerships with partner nations.
“The bilateral exercise continued to demonstrate collaboration and interoperability between the United States and Brazil’s Naval forces,” said Capt. Meger Chappell, deputy commodore of Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 40. “We built on the lessons learned during UNITAS LXIII to further strengthen our ability to ensure maritime superiority in the region.”
The United States and Brazil Naval forces built a relationship on a shared vision of free and open southwestern Atlantic Ocean, and a constant practice on eliminating illegal drug trade throughout the area. Both countries continued to work together and conducted bilateral exercises to strengthen regional consistency.
“This was a great opportunity to build capacity and increase our friendship together,” said Brazilian Naval Capt. Rafael Zeque Monteiro, Commander, Brazilian Escort Squadron 1. “Safety is always paramount, but we learned greatly from each other.”
The Lassen and the União safely conducted rescue and assistance operations, gun exercises, flight operations with an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter attached to Navy Helicopter Squadron “Spartans” (HSM) 70 and a Brazilian Navy UH-12 Esquilo Helicopter, and a Close Air Support Exercise (CASEX) where both ships are given a wide area to search for submarines.
Working closely together, the U.S. and Brazilian Naval forces were able to build maritime relationships and partnerships together.
“This bilateral exercise was an amazing opportunity to build on the bonds between the U.S and Brazilian Navies,” said Cmdr. Christopher Turmel, commanding officer of Lassen . “Sailors on both sides built capacity as we worked through a wide variety of exercises, emerging better trained with improved interoperability. Lassen was honored to be a part of this exercise.”
Commander, Destroyer Squadron 40 (COMDESRON 40) plays a key role in executing our Nation’s maritime strategy by providing dedicated tactical support to naval operations in the U.S. Southern Command’s area of responsibility. The Squadron fosters unity and cooperation between the United States and its South American, Central American, and Caribbean partner nations.
It’s not about sanctions, it’s about accountability, justice, humanity. In a world that is becoming more multi polarized, while fragmental policy initiaves is causing more chaos for the world’s working poor whether it’s Haiti, South Sudan and people fighting for their lives to be heard, counted, valued, what Haiti needs is not the “Carry a Big Stick policy”, but help, A Haitian doctor trained in the US may not happy working in some conditions of Haiti, when he pledged to the US, Canada, France. This has been Moses’s dilemna after leaving Egypt.
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Reponse to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was swift and decisive.
Shortly after the Russian invasion, the United States barred Russia from making debt payments using foreign currency held in U.S. banks, increasing the risk for Russia to default on its debts. In addition, seven Russian banks have been excluded from the SWIFT international messaging system, which facilitates financial transactions and payments.
These sanctions were the “largest sanctions package in [the] Union’s history,” according to Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission.
To remedy the impact of sanctions on its economy, Russia has expedited cooperation with its partners, including China, India, and the Islamic Republic of Iran, to create a parallel financial system to the Western-dominated institutions. In doing so, Russia is pursuing two main objectives. In the short term, Moscow’s goal is to replace Western markets by expanding its petroleum exports to India and China, which are seemingly more reliable trade partners. The ultimate objective, however, is to create a system in which Russia and its partners can circumvent Western economic dominance.
The practicality and effectiveness of such a system remains to be seen.
The creation of a new financial system has been on Russia’s agenda for years. In fact, from the early days of the post-Soviet Union, Moscow has been trying to establish a common market with the USSR’s former republics. In this vein, the 1991 “Commonwealth of the Independent States,” an intergovernmental organization between eastern European and Central Asian nations, was created to encourage financial cooperation and mutual trade. This resulted in the establishment of the Eurasian Economic Union, or EEU, in 2014, a supranational institution that integrated the market of five countries – Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan – into a single market.
Nevertheless, during this period, Russia remained more interested in creating a “financial hub” of its own rather than creating a “financial zone” parallel to the Western system. However, the U.S.-backed sanctions on Russia that followed the annexation of Crimea in 2014 demonstrated Moscow’s vulnerabilities. It is noteworthy that as a result of sanctions, the Russian currency, the rouble, depreciated by 100 percent.
This helps explain why, shortly after the annexation of Crimea, Russia began adopting its “Fortress Russia” strategy designed to detach its economy from the Western-dominated financial system and diversify its economy. Two important measures bear noting here. The System for Transfer of Financial Messages (Sisteme Peredachi Finansovykh Soobshchenii) was devised in 2014 as a Russian equivalent of the SWIFT system and was designed to reduce the risk of sanctions imposed on Russian businesses and banks.
Despite Russian declarations on the effectiveness of this system, however, SPFS has suffered from a number of shortcomings, including high transaction costs, system availability, and security requirements, which have undermined its reliability and usefulness.
Meanwhile, the MIR payment system initiated by the Russian Central Bank in 2017 is meant to serve as an alternative to the U.S.-based Visa and MasterCard. MIR has already been accepted in 11 other countries. In addition, Russia has accelerated its efforts to de-dollarize bilateral trade with friendly countries such as China, Iran and India, and has been actively redirecting its petrol exports from West to East to turn Asia into the “default market” for Russian oil.
A number of regional powers have also sought to detach their economies from the Western financial system. Since 2014, Russia and China have been strengthening their partnership. To shield their financial cooperation from potential U.S. sanctions, both nations have sought to eliminate the U.S. dollar from their trade with considerable success. It is noteworthy that in 2020, only 41.5 percent of bilateral trade has been settled in Dollars, while in 2015, 91 percent of bilateral exchanges were settled in U.S. currency.
Meanwhile, Sino-Russian cooperation entered a new stage in December 2021 when Russian President Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping held a video conference and jointly pledged to escalate bilateral efforts to set up an independent trade network to reduce their reliance on the U.S.-led international financial system. The Putin-Xi commitment was followed by the Bank of China’s decision to join the Russian SPFS in 2022. However, the Bank of China is the only non-Russian member of the SPFS, and China has not encouraged other banks to join it.
India is another potential candidate for the Russian initiative. In fact, since 2019, New Delhi has been expressing its interest in joining the SPFS and replacing the dollar with rupee-rubles transactions. The evidence suggests that both nations have made significant progress in achieving this goal, given that the use of rupee-rubles in bilateral transactions has quintupled.
The other prospective candidate for the Russia-proposed financial system is Iran, whose economy has been subject to suffocating sanctions for a decade. Iranian banks were cut off from the SWIFT system in 2012 as a result of U.S. sanctions. While Iranian banks briefly rejoined the system in the aftermath of the 2015 signing of the JCPOA (the Iran nuclear deal), they were disconnected again as a result of President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the agreement two years later.
It is therefore no surprise that Tehran would also be interested in joining the Russian-led initiative. In this context, Mehdi Safari, Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Diplomacy, told Sputnik in July 2022 that the two countries should de-dollarize their trade and build a similar system to SWIFT.
Notwithstanding the efforts to circumvent Western financial institutions, the Russian system has yet to prove effective, due to a number of factors. The number of countries willing to join or cooperate with the Russian led financial system is limited. It is noteworthy that while Turkish banks had previously adopted the MIR, they have since dropped it under pressure from the U.S. and European authorities. The Egyptians, just a few days ago, did too.
Additionally, some of the prospects for increased Russian cooperation on the financial side have more trade with the U.S. than Russia. It bears noting that China is a top trade partner for the U.S. with $521 billion worth of exports headed to the U.S. market in 2021. Meanwhile, the Chinese exports to Russia stood at $59 billion. Similarly, India’s top trade partner is the United States, and about 18.1 percent of India’s exports in 2021, worth $71 billion, were purchased by Americans, while Russia is not even among India’s top 25 trade partners.
Therefore, it would neither be practical nor feasible for India or China to trade with Russia, at the cost of antagonizing the U.S. In the Iranian case, notwithstanding the growing political and military ties between the two countries, Iran and Russia not only don’t have a compatible economy, but they are natural competitors. Both nations are oil exporting countries, seeking to grow their markets. In fact, Russia is already competing with Iran over the Chinese and Indian markets by offering oil at a discounted price.
Given the challenges discussed, and ongoing uncertainties over the readiness of other major powers to implement the Russian system, the future and effectiveness of the “fortress Russia” strategy remains unclear.
For the moment, the weaponization of sanctions as a tool of punishment has indeed created incentives for some nations to cooperate with the West. But while American dominance over the financial markets have stymied the Kremlin’s efforts to establish a parallel system, evidence suggests that dynamics are shifting as more countries are conscious of their vulnerabilities.
As the world moves toward a multipolar reality, there may be a time when alternatives are much more preferable to the U.S. dominated system. Indeed, the West should be concerned about China’s future actions, as Beijing is expanding its gigantic industrial and commercial capabilities at home and abroad. If it chooses to move closer to Russia in its quest to forge a new path, the
No More Tricks on the Haitian People: such as Match for Peace: Brazil should demand the UN reform or fold instead of fancing painting ot its outside walls, while classics painting are protected by gas guzzling SUVs that not even belong to the UN but to industry titans across the world.We would not be fooled this time:
Guy Phillipe and US troops at the Haitian National Palace (March 2004
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0ONmaCjKDQ
Word from a Bekke Frenchman who used to Own Slaves(Jean Baptiste Victor Hughes from Marseille, in Guadeloupe which almost caused the French -American War in 1815 . Now France , Canada, Brazil, Portugal and US wants to gang up on a small country island that on the guise of international security.
Article on the slave trade
An additional article appended to the treaty addressed the issue of slavery. It reaffirmed the Declaration of the Powers, on the Abolition of the Slave Trade, of 8th of February 1815 (which also formed ACT, No. XV. of the Final Act of the Congress of Vienna) and added that the governments of the contracting parties should “without loss of time, … [find] the most effectual measures for the entire and definitive abolition of a Commerce so odious, and so strongly condemned by the laws of religion and of nature”.[14][15]
Convention on pecuniary indemnity
Colonianism in Africa is transported to the Caribbean: Gabon The Baka people, known in the Congo as Bayaka (Bebayaka, Bebayaga, Bibaya),[1] are an ethnic group inhabiting the southeastern rain forests of Cameroon, northern Republic of the Congo, northern Gabon, and southwestern Central African Republic. They are sometimes called a subgroup of the Twa, but the two peoples are not closely related. Likewise, the name “Baka” is sometimes mistakenly applied to other peoples of the area who, like the Baka and Twa, have been historically called pygmies, a term that is now considered derogatory.
Two indigenous women in Gabon
Baka people are all hunter-gatherers, formerly referred to as pygmies, located in the Central African rain forest. Having average heights of 1.52 meters (5 feet) on average as well as living semi-nomadic lifestyles, the Baka are often discriminated against and marginalized from society.[2]
The tropical rain forest in Gabon, Central Africa where the UN holds a strategic office where some of the Baka reside
They reside in southeastern Cameroon, northern Gabon and in the northern part of the Republic of Congo. In Congo, the Baka people are otherwise known as the Bayaka.[3] Some Baka are also found in southwestern Central African Republic.[4] Although the Baka people are located throughout the Central African rain forest, they are mainly concentrated in Cameroon as the Baka community of Cameroon represents roughly 30 000 individuals.Albert Swe
Haiti is recgonized by the U.S in 1862 by Abraham Lincoln after the US Presidency, and the American Civil War
The *Bahamas, Canada, Brazil , the US, Peru, want to invade Haiti.
http://www.tribune242.com/
Bahamas sold three islands to the Walt Disney Corp, and the State of Florida wants to remove tax abatement status for the Walt Disney Co which has contracts with some of Haiti’s factory owner to make Disney branded clothing.Don’t forget the Bahamas has turned down a constitutional referendum to allow Haitians living in the Bahamas.Because of covid 19- tourism is no longer a reliable source of income.