US-UN to Install Texas Businessman as Haitian President

by **proldic** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 1:09 pm

Fort Worth Star-Telegram 9/16/05 <a href="http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/world/12661571.htm">www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/...661571.htm</a>

by **DrDebugDU** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 1:18 pm

Since it's a registration site <blockquote>Quote:<hr> N. Texas businessman seeks Haiti's presidency By Alfred De Montesquiou The Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - A crowded presidential field grew more diverse Thursday with the entry of a wealthy North Texas businessman who was born in Haiti. The November vote will be the first since President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was ousted after a violent rebellion in February 2004. The North Texas candidate is Dumarsais Simeus, who owns Mansfield-based Simeus Foods International, a manufacturing company whose customers include Denny's, T.G.I. Friday's and Burger King. Simeus became a candidate on the final day of the registration period. The field includes a wide range of former government officials and a leader of the rebellion that ousted Aristide. "I am deeply grateful to the people of Haiti for the enormous outpouring of support, goodwill and love we have received," said Simeus, 65. He has said he wants to use his business savvy to help resurrect the economy of the Western Hemisphere's poorest country. "In all that I have done, I have always been successful. I'm a perpetual winner, and I will win these elections," Simeus said. More than two dozen candidates have registered for the Nov. 20 election. More were expected to emerge by the end of Thursday, the deadline to register with the Provisional Electoral Council. Candidates were also registering for legislative seats. Most registered candidates are officials from past regimes. Simeus, who lives in Southlake, was born in the village of Pont-Sonde in a two-room shack. His parents sold land to help him attend college in the United States. He has a degree in electrical engineering from Howard University and an MBA from the University of Chicago. His business is Texas' largest black-owned company and the country's largest black-owned food-processing plant, according to Black Enterprise magazine. This Report Includes Material From the Miami Herald. <hr></blockquote> Any idea who Dumarsais Simeus is? I already see that he served on Jeb Bush's Haiti Task Force.

by **hanshan** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 1:23 pm

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by **seemslikeadream** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 2:21 pm

if he thinks he's gonna ignore these guys he may have a problem <img src="http://www.wehaitians.com/feb_19_ap_pro_4.jpg" style="border:0;"/> <a href="http://www.progressiveindependent.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=139&topic_id=1&mesg_id=1" target="top">www.progressiveindependent.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=139&topic_id=1&mesg_id=1</a> <a href="http://www.progressiveindependent.com/shalom/Pina_Haiti.htm" target="top">www.progressiveindependent.com/shalom/Pina_Haiti.htm</a>

by **seemslikeadream** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 2:08 pm

Sounds like bad news... Americans & the business community are pushing him. It seems the Haitians are going to deny his candidature because per Haitian constitution you must be a Haitian citizen, must never have renounced your Haitian citizenship and taken another, and must have lived IN Haiti for at least 5 years before running. He's relying on a swarm of Washington lawyers to get him elected by filing a suit against the Haitian CEP in the courts and challenging article 135 of the Haitian constitution. He's not even allowed to vote in Haitian elections yet he wants the Presidency? You understand now why Kevin Pina was arrested don't you? The US is going to impose one of their businessmen on the poor Haitians despite their constitution and over their dead bodies. Can't have Kevin Pina's camera messing that all up! ==== That is very hypocritical of him to say Haiti's current is unconstitutional since he is one of the major supporters of the same people who have put this government in place. He is been in the US for over 40 years, I never heard of him establishing Haitian businesses in Brooklyn, Miami, or Boston. I heard about him from a family friend, then I read about him in Black Enterprise, I did some research on him and find out how he really started his company with help from an African-American businessman, his support of Florida's Haitian Bush Supporters, his dealings with Dennis Restaurant, and his relationship with the Coca Cola Company and the political establishment in Texas, and DC. I wished him more success in his endeavors, but his absence in Haitian affairs sateside and his recent push in Haitian politics have me questioned his intentions. I agree a Haitian who lives overseas should vote, but the idea to become president when you renounce your nationality, this is not an award show, you are becoming an international representation of the largest black country in the Western hemisphere. == And here you go... Backed by the Haiti Democracy Project. Need we even look any further? == "What a contender!" says James Morrell, director of the Haiti Democracy Project in Washington. "Here is the richest and most successful Haitian around - running to lead a country where nothing works. This has to look awfully good. Here is evidence of someone who can get things done." === I have new information on how Mr. Dumarsais Simeus got to become the largest black employer in Texas. Mr. Simeus met the founder of the Beatrice Foods, the nation's largest minority firm in Howard University, he got a job there, the founder was someone similar to Earl Graves which is believing in creating black wealth through ideas of American Republicanism which is to not pay taxes (Texas, right to work state, tax haven for oil companies) and black meritocracy which is you have to prove to a white person that you can do a job (similar to Colin Powell). He fell out with the owner of that company, then instead started working for white-owned companies such Atari, a popular video game developer and Rockwell the multanational conglomerate. He went to Chigaco, where again he met some Black Wealth Power type of individuals who had connections to MVCH, a quasi organization set up to give funding capital to black entrepreneurs, he received a founding grant, a small loan , then he obtained a line of credit from Chase Bank with his grant and some other assets as collateral to purchase Pro-Foods which he then change the name to Simeus Foods which distributes to Burger King, Dennys, and other chained-owned. With the craze of minority suplied type of diversity program of the 1990's, his company and so does his former employer Beatrice which is bigger than Sean John, Def Jam combined, yet not widely known. He wanted to stick up to Beatrice, his former employer by being in direct competition with them. What does that have to do with Haiti? Ask yourself. He runs Promocapital, an MRE (morally repugnant elite) Haitian investment firm that are trying to so-call pushed investments into the country, yet to date the input has been none, his belief in taxing policies where Haiti's meager public funds can not sustain basic social much less paying down the massive debt that the country owes, and its partially cause of the massive poverty. Mr. Simeus has benefited from some of the programs his philosophy is against in the US, he profited from them greatly, yet in Haiti would he reverse his course or try to impose those philosophies in a country that is grasping for air to survive. == Our constitution rules Mr. Simeus out. WHAT ELSE SHOULD WE LOOK FOR? The food guy has been in the US for 44 years. He knows all about respecting the law. Why is he disrespecting Haiti? If you guys were really thinking about it, you should take Mr. Simeus' action as an insult and a proof that he's NOT Haitian. WHY DOES HE OBEY US LAW BUT DISRESPECTING HAITIAN LAW? Sometimes, I wonder if some of us just think to think. The truth is so clear. And then who is Mr. simeus for Haitians and for Haiti for us to violate our own constitution for him? Making a fortune in helping restaurants cook their burgers is no qualification for anything in the public domain. The food guy has been non-existant for the Haitian community since he was born. We are hearing his company is worth millions, we don't even know how many white a$$ he accepted to kiss for that. He's part of the Bush entourage. That alone tells a lot about the doggy attitude he may have in passing the Black meritocratic test. <a href="http://www.haitixchange.com/hx/forum/display_topic_threads.asp?ForumID=1&TopicID=2426&ReturnPage=&PagePosition=1&ThreadPage=5">www.haitixchange.com/hx/f...readPage=5</a> He's a slippery worm too... Check out this interview: == CARL Has the Bush government ask you to be a candidate ? DUMARSAIS SIMÉUS Many people have asked me this question. I can truthfully say no. But I like to give you a straight answer. I have many friends in Haiti, in the US wether in Miami, New York or Boston. I have also in France and in Germany. As you know I do business with many countries. CARL You are a citizen of the world. DUMARSAIS SIMÉUS Well, more or less, (laughing), but I say it with humility. I worked in 25 to 30 countries on this earth. So people, who do business with me always ask me why don’t I consider running for office to become President of Haiti so that I can help my country. CARL Do you know George W. Bush ? Have you met him personnally ? DUMARSAIS SIMÉUS The answer is absolutely NO . CARL Are you a registered Republican ? DUMARSAIS SIMÉUS Let me answer it this way. I am so glad you asked me this question. I operate on both sides of the aisle. You could say I am an independent. I am a friend of the United States and I also support any political party Republican, Democrat, Independent provided that I see they have a vision that is in line with my vision, in terms of what the country of Haiti and also the U.S. needs. CARL Do you think that Mr. Bush right now has a good vision for Haiti? DUMARSAIS SIMÉUS Well, let’s put it this way. I know from speaking with various people and I am going to give you a general answer. In speaking with people from the Black Caucus, in speaking with people from the Democratic party in general and in speaking with people from the Republican party, they all are unanimous in wanting Haiti to become a better country where there are jobs, where there is education, where there is better governance, where there is a better agricultural industry, etc. All of them want Haiti to prosper. They all have told me that with the right leadership, they believe a country as beautiful as Haiti, a country that has so much potential, can prosper. (snip) <a href="http://www.fombrun.com/article.php/20050908I299">www.fombrun.com/article.php/20050908I299</a> No need to dig much further but if you want me too I will... Haiti just got sold to the largest bidder... Bush country all the way now! I can't even begin to imagine what the Haitians are going to suffer... Walls and walls of factories coming now! North Texas CEO wants to be president -- of Haiti By Jacqueline Charles The Miami Herald The walls of Haitian-American entrepreneur Dumarsais "Dumas" Simeus' Mansfield office bear witness to his success -- proud photos, awards and magazine covers recognizing his $100 million food empire in the rapidly growing city. His humble roots are apparent, too: a framed photograph of a two-room shack with an aluminum roof in the village of Pont-Sonde, Haiti, where he was born 65 years ago. Those roots have inspired Simeus, a Southlake resident and one of the nation's top black businessmen, in his role as a member of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's Haiti Task Force. Now he is taking on the greatest challenge of his life: seeking the presidency of Haiti. (snip) "The bottom line is he is a native son of Haiti, clearly born and raised in Haiti, went out in the world to make a success and he has kept constant connection with Haiti," said Rob Allyn, a Dallas-based GOP political strategist hired by Simeus. The firm has helped engineer victories for candidates in the Bahamas, Indonesia and Mexico, as well as for the George W. Bush gubernatorial campaign in Texas. <a href="http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/world/12499476.htm">www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/...499476.htm</a> On edit... just looked at the Haitian pages written in French and Creole and people are not happy about "a conservative Republican and Bush crony buying his way into the National Palace". Page after page of NO. Re the Aug. 17 story CEO seeks new job: the president of Haiti: It would be a coup indeed if Dumas Simeus became president of Haiti. As a Texan, a friend of President Bush's and a wealthy contributor to the Republican Party, the Bush administration could not have a better candidate. As a U.S. citizen, however, Simeus is barred from becoming a candidate in Haiti's election because he is not and cannot be a Haitian citizen. Article 13(a) of the Haitian constitution states: ``Haitian nationality is lost by naturalization in a foreign country.'' Haiti does not allow dual nationality. In addition, he renounced his allegiance to Haiti as he was required to do to become a U.S. citizen and is therefore barred by Article 135(a) of the Haitian Constitution from running for president. None of this should bother the Bush administration because Andy Apaid, a leader of the coup against Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is also a U.S. citizen. Apaid was funded by the U.S. government through Group 186. www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/ news/editorial/letters/12412197.htm 8/7/05 UN Massacre of Poor in Port-au-Prince. Letter to Dumas Simeus of RepresentAction, et al… CORRECTION on last e-mail: Date reported for Dréd Wilme’s allege death is July 6, 2005 not 7 as written. ****************************************** – UN Occupation Forces Carry Out Massacre of Poor in Port-au-Prince – Open Letter to Dumas Simeus of RepresentAction – The spokesperson of Lavalas activists of Bel-Air denounces the MINUSTHAís “blind operation” in CitÈ Soleil, AHP July 7, 2005 12:05 PM ***************************************** For Immediate Release: UN Occupation Forces Carry Out Massacre of Poor in Port-au-Prince On Wednesday morning, July 6th, at approximately 3:00 AM, UN occupation forces in Haiti carried out a major military operation in the working-class neighborhood of Cite Soleil, one of the poorest in Port-au-Prince and also a stronghold of support for Haiti’s majority political party Lavalas and President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Presumably, the purpose of the operation was to crack down on illegal “gang activity”, in particular on “gang” leader Dread Wilme. In actuality, a US trade union and human rights delegation in Port-au-Prince discovered evidence of a massacre conducted by the UN forces, targeting the larger community itself. According to accounts from many different members of the community, many of whom chose to remain anonymous, as well as from journalists who were on the scene during the operation, UN forces surrounded two neighborhoods within Cite Soleil, Boisneuf and Project Drouillard, sealing off the alleys with tanks and troops. Two helicopters flew overhead. At 4:30 AM, UN forces launched the offensive, shooting into houses, shacks, a church, and a school with machine guns, tank fire, and tear gas. Eyewitnesses reported that when people fled to escape the tear gas, UN troops gunned them down from the back. UN forces shot out electric transformers in the neighborhood. People were killed in their homes and also just outside of their homes, on the way to work. According to journalists and eyewitnesses, one man named Leon Cherry, age 46, was shot and killed on his way to work for a flower company. Another man, Mones Belizaire, was shot as he got ready to go work in a local sweatshop and subsequently died from a stomach infection. A woman who was a street vendor was shot in the head and killed instantly. One man was shot in his ribs while he was trying to brush his teeth. Another man was shot in the jaw as he left his house to try and get some money for his wife’s medical costs; he endured a slow death.Yet another man named Mira was shot and killed while urinating in his home. A mother, Sena Romelus, and her two young children were killed in their home, either by bullets or by a 83-CC grenade UN forces threw. Film footage of many of these deaths was shared with the US human rights delegation. Eyewitnesses claimed that the offensive overwhelmed the community and that there was not a “firefight”, but rather a slaughter. The operation was primarily conducted by UN forces, with the Haitian National Police this time taking a back seat. Seth Donnelly, a member of the US human rights delegation in Port-au-Prince, visited Cite Soleil with Haitian human rights workers on Thursday afternoon, July 7th. The team gathered testimony from many members of the community, young and old, men, women, and youth. All verified the previous statements we had received from journalists and other eyewitness accounts. These community members spoke of how they had been surrounded by tanks and troops that sealed off exits from the neighborhoods and then proceeded to assault the civilian population. The community allowed the team to film the evidence of the massacre, showing the homes — in some cases made of tin and cardboard — that had been riddled by bullets, tank fire and helicopter ammunition, as well as showing the team some of the corpses still there, including a mother and her two children. The team also filmed a church and a school that had been riddled by ammunition. Reportedly, a preacher was among the victims killed. Some community members allowed the team to interview them, but not to film their faces for fear of their lives. People were traumutized and, in the cases of loved ones of victims, hysterical. Many community members — again young and old, men and women — spoke highly of Dread Wilme, referring to him as their “protector” or “father”, and expressed fear for the future. One member said that he heard that another UN operation against the community was planned for later Thursday night or early Friday morning. Multiple community people indicated that they had counted at least 23 bodies of people killed by the UN forces. Community members claimed that UN forces had taken away some of the bodies. Published estimates indicate that upwards of 50 may have been killed and an indeterminate number wounded, and that more than 300 heavily armed UN troops took part in the assault on this densely populated residential neighborhood. “There was systematic firing on civilians,” said one eyewitness to the killing. “All exits were cut off. The community was choked off, surrounded — facing tanks coming from different angles, and overhead, helicopters with machine guns fired down on the people. The citizens were under attack from all sides and from the air. It was war on a community.” The Labor/Human Rights Delegation from the United States, sponsored by the San Francisco Labor Council, had been in Haiti since late last month to attend the Congress of the Confederation of Haitian Workers (CTH), the country’s largest labor organization, and interviewed hundreds of Haitian workers, farmers and professionals about the current labor and human rights situation in Haiti. ********************** Simeus is one of the people supporting these atrocities... Below is an open letter to Simeus as wee as the letter Simeus wrote to Bush AN OPEN LETTER TO DUMAS SIMEUS OF REPRESENTACTION July 7, 2005 Dumas M. Simeus Chairman & Founder, Simeus Foods International, Inc. Co-Chair, National Organization for the Advancement of Haitians Chairman, PromoCapital USA, the Haitian-American Investment Bank Dear Mr. Simeus: It is with great consternation that I read your open letter dated June 30, 2005 asking the president of the United States of North America, George W. Bush to consider sending U.S. troops to provide security to our 'helpless brothers and sisters' in Haiti. You also stated in your letter that you are acting on behalf of Haitians everywhere. Sir, it seems to me that you still do not understand the roots of the problems in Haiti. First let me tell you that you have not spoken on my behalf. Second, part of the problems of Haiti is and has always been the involvement of US policy makers in the internal affairs of this Caribbean country. US policy makers have never been interested in both the development of democracy in Haiti and the well being of the Haitian mass. They have yet to prove me wrong. You either do not know the history of the US interventions in Haiti. Or if you knew, you are simply ignoring it. In order to solve a problem, you have to understand the roots of its causes. Dumas Simeus, I emphatically repeat that the US Embassy is one of the major causes of our problems in Haiti. The majority of the Haitian people have made it clear that they want to be included in the affairs of their country. They want to be considered as real citizens of Haiti but not second class human beings. They want access to health care, education, opportunities, freedom to express, respect of their human rights, and especially respect for their rights to choose their elected representatives. US marines have never come to Haiti to guaranty those rights and to further advance those goals. Instead they always come to maintain the status quo, a status quo that the majority of Haitians have repudiated and will never accept. Furthermore, I would like to enumerate who those 'helpless brothers and sisters' are that you are asking protections for? Nevertheless, I have not heard you lending your voice to those denouncing the despicable, barbaric acts of human rights violations (i.e. illegal and arbitrary arrests, prolonged detention without any charge, summary executions, rapes, beatings by the Haitian police while under arrest, etc) being committed by the current de-facto Haitian government. I would like to ask you if you are pleased with what is going on in the popular neighborhoods in Haiti and are you going to send an open letter to President Bush asking him to stop the bombings of innocent civilians in Cite Soleil? Today instead what we need is a new national and patriotic vision for the country based on respect for one another without any outside interference while recognizing the harm that has been done and still plaguing the society to come up with a new consensus to make Haiti the country we all dream of. You and I have had a chance to access many opportunities in these United States of America. Otherwise, you and I would have been among one of those fighting for those opportunities and those rights denied to millions in todayís Haiti. Let us not forget that. We do not need any more boots including north-american to trample the aspirations and rights of the Haitian people. Patriotically, Jean Yves Point-du-Jour, Transportation Engineer Maryland, USA Yves@erols.com ******************** From: “RepresentAction” <info@representaction.net> To: jpoint du jour Date: 07/02/2005 6:26:36 AM Subject: An Open Letter To The President of The United States of America :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (by this Simian Simeus creep) :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: June 30, 2005 President George W. Bush The White House Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear Mr. President: We have read a press release from the U.S. Embassy in Haiti further reducing the in country personnel and sending them back home as a result of continued and accelerating violence in Haiti. While all of us Haitians and Haitian Americans are very grateful to the United States for its repeated benevolent acts towards Haiti, we are respectfully asking you once more for additional help that only you can provide. UN Peacekeeping Chief Jean Marie Guehenno recently stated that parts of Haiti are far worse than the violent conditions in Darfur, and that the 1,000 additional troops assigned to Haiti will be insufficient to solve this crisis. United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has also stated that only the presence of U.S. troops working side by side with the U.N. will bring about peace and security. We Haitians and Haitian Americans support the assertion of Mr. Kofi Annan that only the direct intervention of the United States will stem the flow of violence and bring about peace and security for all of its citizens. As you know, there are at least 6 10 kidnappings daily in the country and citizens are living in a state of terrorism, full of fear and anxiety, afraid even to drive their kids to school. May I urge you Mr. President, on behalf of Haitians everywhere, to consider direct action and help us provide security to our helpless brothers and sisters in Haiti. Respectfully yours, Dumas M. SimÈus Chairman & Founder, SimÈus Foods International, Inc. Co Chair, National Organization for the Advancement of Haitians Chairman, PromoCapital USA, The Haitian American Investment Bank *************** The spokesperson of Lavalas activists of Bel-Air denounces the MINUSTHAís “blind operation” in CitÈ Soleil Port-au-Prince, July 7, 2005 (AHP)- Spokesperson of Lavalas activists of Bel-Air, Samba Boukman, denounced Thursday the intervention considered brutal and without discrimination, done the day before at CitÈ Soleil, by the MINUSTAH and the National Police against gang leader Emmanuel (Dread) WilmÈ. People close to Mr. WilmÈ said there were dozens of people killed, while the MINUSTHA military spokesperson, Elouafi Boulbars, speaks of several people killed, 6 of them only in WilmÈís home. According to the daily newspaper Le Nouvelliste, among the people killed in the gang leaderís home are one of his children and one of his lovers. Samba Boukman accused the MINUSTAH of violating Resolution 1576 of the United Nations Security Council, by killing members of the civil population during its operations. “Crimes occur regularly in residential neighbourhoods, Samba Boukman declared. Dread WilmÈ is accused of being involved in several cases of violence registered lately in the capital, notably the murder of another gang leader named Robinson (LabanyË) Thomas who was known to be close to the former opposition. The spokesperson of the activists of Bel-air said that the MINUSTHA and the National Police have the right to want to arrest individuals whom they accuse of violence, but they should have other ways, different than the armour, to neutralize one man only. “Using weapons of destruction in a neighbourhood as populated as CitÈ Soleil can only harm the population, Samba Boukman declared, saying that the activists of democracy are determined to mobilize peacefully until the return to democratic order. Meanwhile, the body of Dread WilmÈ, who was declared dead by UN officials, was still not found over 24 hours after the operations. AHP July 7, 2005 12:05 PM <a href="http://www.williambowles.info/haiti-news/2005/un_massacre.html">www.williambowles.info/ha...sacre.html</a> NPR Haiti's Dark Secret: The Restavecs <img src="http://www.npr.org/programs/wesat/features/2004/mar/haiti/gallery6.jpg" style="border:0;"/> Weekend Edition - Saturday, March 27, 2004 · Haiti, a nation of only eight million people, is home to some 300,000 restavecs -– young children who are frequently trafficked from the rural countryside to work as domestic servants in the poverty-stricken nation's urban areas. Parents send their children away, often to wealthy looking strangers, hoping that they will be fed and educated in exchange for performing domestic work. As poverty and political turmoil in Haiti increases, human rights observers report that the number of restavecs continues to rise dramatically. Documentary photographer Gigi Cohen spent a month in Haiti photographing Josiméne, a 10-year-old restavec. Cohen's is one of 11 stories that are part of Child Labor and the Global Village: Photography for Social Change, a project of The Tides Center and Julia Dean & Associates. Cohen's month with Josiméne evolved into more than a simple assignment –- the two forged a close relationship. Freelance producer Rachel Leventhal asked Cohen if, in addition to her photographic assignment, she would also make recordings for the radio. Using Cohen’s recordings, she tells Josiméne's story. Josiméne lives in a two-room cinderblock house outside of Port-au-Prince. Her parents, who have seven other children, are small farmers in Haiti's remote and mountainous heartland. Among her other duties, Josiméne cares for two younger children, cleans the house, washes dishes, scrubs laundry by hand, runs errands and sells small items from the family's informal store. She has lived this way for over two years, since she was seven. It has been over six months since she has seen her family. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1779562

by **DrDebugDU** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 3:01 pm

He sounds like slippery slime. Just the kind you'll always see in the BFEE > But I like to give you a straight answer > but I say it with humility > Let me answer it this way > I am so glad you asked me this question. > Well, let’s put it this way About PromoCapital <blockquote>Quote:<hr> At least nine of the seventy people named as PromoCapital shareholders and founders were known or suspected financial backers of the 1991 military coup, which overthrew President Aristide and proceeded to slaughter well over 3,000 people. These people had their assets blocked by the US Department of Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control under the Clinton Administration, until 1994. (...) USAID in particular has already stated its support for PromoCapital's "Haiti Reconstruction Fund", and are clear that "The departure of President Aristide presents us now with an opportunity to rebuild and move forward." (replace USAID with NED/CIA when you are talking about Haiti) (...) PromoCapital is a subsidiary of PromoBank, which was also on the list of "Blocked Entities" re: 1991 coup. For the complete list of PromoCapital "partners", see <a href="http://www.dvercity.com/">www.dvercity.com/</a> magazine_haiti.html. There are *many* important lists to be concerned with regarding Haiti, some of which can be heard daily on elite-owned Haitian radio as was told to us in Port au Prince by Prevat Precil, former General Director of the Ministry of Justice under President Aristide. At the time of our meeting, Precil was not yet being subjected to direct persecution. Last week, Precil was sacked by the Latortue regime and has since been forced to flee the country, presumably since he was added to a list. See the Haiti Report, which [especially] discusses "ministerial overhauls" and political persecution, as well as the urgent issue of human rights abuses: <a href="http://www.haitireborn.org/news/">www.haitireborn.org/news/</a> haitireport/ <a href="http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=55&ItemID=5371">www.zmag.org/content/show...temID=5371</a> <hr></blockquote> Haiti The Forgotten War

by **Starman** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 4:07 pm

My heart goes out to the suffering, impoverished and terrorized people of Haiti. The brutish, cruel and ugly hand of US intervention around the world creating intolerable conditions of poverty and terror is perhaps nowhere more evident than in Haiti, in which centuries of strivings for authentic self-rule democracy and true freedom have been actively repulsed, undermined and sabotaged by successive administrations and policymakers succumbing to a venal, hateful and hypocritical agenda. Responsibility for this latest chapter of violence, economic crisis and collapse of civil society inflicted on Haiti must be laid at the feet of Bush and his posturing sycophants, extending from the CIA's secret arming and training of ex-army thugs and criminals in the Dominican Republic, set-loose to pillage and wage terror and that set the stage for the US 'remedy' of Kidnapping President Aristide under gunpoint/ What can you call such deliberate policies provoking the horror that followed, the terrorizing and murder of thousands for their political beliefs? And yet, the 'average' American with their know-nothing awareness of what the government is doing in their name, thinks America is 'great' because we are 'free' -- never even thinking about the 'cost' in lives and suffering America's stolen affluence and unearned prestige has demanded of people around the world. If America's karmic debt will require payback, then some terribly black, horrible days and years lie ahead. The Federal Gangster's have a LOT to answer for -- as do those who are complicit in or enable their monstrous crimes, making a mockery of eveything decent and to be respected or admired. My contempt for these murdering criminals keeps growing. Starman PS: Following analysis by Chomsky helps explain the US role in keeping Haiti poor and oppressed, a remarkable repudiation of basic American principles which reflects the US's exploitation and terrorizing of third world nations. The actual history of US intervention vs the myth of America spreading 'democracy'. How can the US public be so naive and simple-minded as to not know these things? *** <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/17/1545244&mode=thread&tid=25">www.democracynow.org/arti...ead&tid=25</a> Haiti's History: Noam Chomsky Traces Underpinnings Of Aristide's Ouster Back To 1991-1994 Coup -- EXCERPT On Feb, 24, 2004, a few days before President Jean Bertrand Aristide was flown from Haiti to the Central African Republic, MIT professor Noam Chomsky spoke at the University of Massachusetts about Haiti and the brewing coup d'etat. TRANSCRIPT (minor editing by Starman for readability, logic) NOAM CHOMSKY: In Haiti, you can read on the front pages of the main newspapers that death squad leaders are rampaging through the country. The death squad leaders, apart from a hideous record in the earlier years, were responsible for maybe 4,000 to 5,000 deaths during the period of the military junta in 1991 to 1994. They were (also) the leaders of the military junta, which killed maybe 4,000 or 5,000 people more than the (paramilitary) death squads did. What is not mentioned is that the military junta was supported by the Bush and the Clinton administrations. (Lets) just quickly go over the background. There's a long, ugly, horrifying history going back two centuries. But just starting in 1990, the Haiti did have its first free election in 1990. The U.S. had a candidate, World Bank official Mark Bean who (the US) assumes would obviously win. He had all the money and everything else. Nobody was paying attention to what was going on in the slums and the streets and the hills and what was going on was pretty impressive. A lot of large-scale effective organizing among some of the poorest, most miserable people in the world and grassroots movements had developed with nobody paying any attention. Which were so powerful that when it did come to a vote they swept the election. The U.S. candidate got 14% of the vote and President Aristide won by a very large majority, which shocked everybody. The United States instantly, instantly turned to overthrowing the government. It withdrew support (already promised) from badly, desperately needed programs and critically-needed financial aid -- but not because the government was inefficient, it was getting very good marks from the international lending institutions and so on, but because it had broken the rules. It was a popular government that had been elected on the basis of large-scale grassroots organizing, all aid was withdrawn from the government. Aid was given, but only to the opposition. Up until that point, under agreements first with Carter and then intensified with Reagan, the U.S. had a virtual blockade around the island during the periods of the vicious military dictatorships that the U.S. was supporting to try to prevent people from escaping. That's illegal, of course. It's in gross violation of the universal declaration of human rights and conventional humanitarian law. But anyway, that's what was going on. They changed it when Aristide was elected. For the first time, Haitians were allowed to come to the United States and accept political asylum, not when they were being tortured by Duvalier’s thugs. It didn't matter too much because very few people were trying to get out. In fact, during that moment of hope, people for the first time were trying to get in. But if anyone was trying to get out, they were, for the first time, allowed to be called political refugees. When the coup took place, it was anticipated seven months later, it reversed. Then nobody could flee again because they weren't political refugees (well, they really were, but the US couldn't let it be seen that Haitians wanted to flee, or had a desperate reason to flee from a US-imposed despot). The organization of American states called an embargo after the military coup; Bush 41 was then president, he announced right away that the U.S. would disregard it. Bush's admin. would permit U.S. firms to break the embargo to continue providing aid, commerce with the military junta and the rich backers. There was an effort to fine-tune embargo for the benefit of the Haitian poor, but only by allowing U.S. firms to violate the embargo. That passed without comment. And, in fact, trading with Haiti continued, extended under Clinton, even further. The crucial element in the embargo, any embargo such as oil to Haiti, is that the military would benefit -- and the rich elite would run out and wouldn't be able to continue if they didn't have oil. The C.I.A. was testifying solemnly to congress that no oil was getting in. I was there for some of the time. I've been in a lot of horrible places. I've never seen people so terrorized and terrified, just afraid to open their mouths. All you had to do is walk around the streets of Port-Au-Prince to see the C.I.A. was lying. You could go to the harbor and see the ships coming in with the oil. But the pretense was maintained that the U.S. was not permitting oil to go in. It later turned out that the Bush and the Clinton administrations had authorized Texaco Oil Corporation to circumvent presidential directives and supply the oil illegally to the gangsters who were torturing and terrorizing the population -- that has yet to be printed outside of the business press. But it was known in 1994 by the dissident press of course, which isn't subject to those constraints. Finally, in 1994, Clinton decided that the population had been tortured enough and Aristide was 'permitted' to return. That was described, but what you read was that this was a magnificent act of humanitarian intervention, pure altruism entering the noble phase of foreign policy -- as we restored the democratically elected president in 1994. Continuing with what isn't reported, the president was indeed allowed to return, but on a condition -- namely, that he accept the program of the defeated U.S. candidate in the 1990 election who had gotten 14% of the vote. That is a very harsh neo-liberal program, which opens Haiti up to complete takeover by foreign, meaning U.S., mainly corporations, no constraints. It was bound to be an economic disaster for what shreds of the economy remained. It's a familiar program. It has just been imposed on Iraq by the pro-counsel, Paul Bremer -- Order 39 last October declares that the Iraq economy must be open to takeover by foreign, namely U.S., multinationals, banks, esp. U.S. banks such as J.P. Morgan and others, who have to be able to take over the financial institutions, which means essentially running the economy -- and everything else can be bought up by the foreign, mainly U.S., businesses. No sovereign country would ever accept that. But this is a country under military occupation. The business classes in Iraq are protesting because they know they can't withstand international competition -- they just don't trust massively subsidized U.S. multinationals. But it doesn't matter. Bremer also imposed a 15% top tax. The Bush administration's delight. Again, no sovereign country would accept that. It's program like that that Adam Smith was complaining about. As a matter of fact, it's programs like that, forced into position of market principles on countries under military occupation, that's basically created today's third world. The rich countries, including the United States, have never accepted such rules. Actually, this (touches on) an interesting point. Adam Smith urged the U.S. colonies circa 1776, to pursue comparative advantage to do what they were good at. What they were good at was agricultural production. You know, catching beavers, sending fish to England. They'd concentrate on that. That was (supposedly) the best way to maximize efficiency. But don't try to develop industry. That would be crazy because British industry's far more efficient, which was true and you'll just be harming overall efficiency if you try to develop your own industry. Well, you know, same laws for India. But India had to accept them because they were under occupation. The U.S. was able to throw the British out and disregard the advice, which happens to be the same advice that economists are now giving to the poor countries of the world. And that violated the principles of comparative advantage and economic efficiency -- as the US then developed its own industry and the story goes on from there. If the U.S. had followed the conventional rules, the ones now imposed on Iraq and Haiti and others, we would be not here -- well, maybe a couple of us would be around talking in some hut somewhere between going off to catch fish to send to the Mother country, or something similiar, pursuing our comparative advantage. Anyhow, Haiti had to accept that as a condition on the return of their elected president; THAT is the great humanitarian achievement (granted by a 'benevolent' US). Well, as was predicted and as once happened, the remnants of Haitian economic functioning were destroyed, of course. Haitian farmers, rice farmer, for example, who happened to be quite efficient, they were producing rice efficiently at a high quality, which was feeding the population and now you read that Haiti can't feed itself, which is correct. Haiti fish farmers cannot begin to compete with the subsidized U.S. fishing industry. And also, agri-business,which maybe gets 40% of its profits from subsidies granted to it by the Reaganites under free market doctrine, the way it actually works. The same happened with just about whatever was left. And one of the few businesses that was actually functioning in Haiti was making chicken parts. But it turned out -- turns out that Americans don't like dark meat. So, there's lots of extra dark meat lying around here and companies like Tyson don't want to throw it out. They would like to force other countries to buy it at dumped prices. So, they dumped dark meat on Haiti. They tried to do it in Canada and Mexico, but those countries were able to impose barriers to dumping. However, Haiti wasn't allowed to because of the condition for their 'freedom', so the poultry industry was wiped out. And so it goes, case after case. And the result is complete chaos, destruction, what you see today on the front pages. Well, that is the background. Now let's come to the doctrine of the Bush doctrine. The head of the paramilitary forces that are now rampaging once again in Haiti is a gentleman named Emanuel Constant who is living happily in Queens. There is no question about his responsibility. He's already been tried in absentia in Haitian courts and no one questions that he was the leader of terrorist forces. Haiti has made several efforts to have the United States extradite him, but they rarely even get a response. Some of these are interesting. The timing is interesting. One request was on September 30 2001. That was right in the middle of the furor over the fact that the Taliban were unwilling to turn over to us someone who the U.S. accused of terrorism without providing any evidence. You know, a big topic if we're going to bomb Afghanistan. Haiti required extradition of Emanuel Constant. It was mentioned in the sort of back pages, but obviously no response. Just not the Bush administration kind of thing -- ie., accountability and consistency.

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