Moise Killed: What is really happening in Haiti? – Caleb talks with Danny Shaw

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Caleb Maupin

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Dispatch dateline: July 11, 2021

An informal chat with Caleb Maupin as your guide to the multitude of news, lies, distortions, rumors, idiocies, hypocrisies, and ideologies that shape our world.

Haiti's usurper president Jovenel Moise—one more imperialist tool in a long line of puppets, is dead, murdered by what appears to be a band of Colombian mercenaries, with a sprinkling of Haitian-Americans based in Miami, and connected to a merc "security firm" also with Miami roots. The question is what and who is really behind this partially successful attempt on Haiti's stability? The almost sure bet is that US intelligence is behind this, as usual, and that all these coups and "managed unrest" are essentially designed to benefit US multinationals. Neocolonialism is alive and well in Haiti, and these sordid processes will not stop until the US and its vassals are kicked out, as it happened in Venezuela, Cuba and may soon happen in other parts of Latin America. Meanwhile, the filthy US media does not even mention (when referring to the unbroken history of coups and revolutions) the role of US interventions in producing this chaotic and highly painful situation. A noteworthy point is that the empire appears to have become more than deft at staging "preemptive coups" to precisely manage the inevitable, the overthrow of an imperial puppet when he is no longer able to sustain power efficiently, nor is obeying Washington's instructions as tendered. The mechanism for regime change is simple: the US/Western intel services organize an assassination which, in turn, may provoke widespread chaos and protests. These, in turn, are used to justify an open UN or US military intervention, "to restore order and eliminate the "dangerous" forces triggering the chaos. It's all very neat and logical and with the support of the US media, smoothly doable, as the US has done on multiple occasions: from the elimination of the Diems in Vietnam, to the assassination of Trujillo in the D.R., to the toppling of Noriega in Panama, and of course the murder of Moise a few days ago in the almost continually "intervened" nation of Haiti.

Captured assassins for hire: most are said to be former Colombian soldiers, now working as mercenaries. But who really hired these goons?

BONUS:
Democracy Now! programs focused on Haiti

As a rule we no longer trust Democracy Now! as a consistent anti-imperialist platform, however, on some occasions, Amy Goodman, despite her meandering record in recent years, still features material not obtainable in the rotten mainstream media. Watch these videos with that qualification in mind.

—The Editor

Jovenel Moïse Dead: Haitian President Assassinated, Plunging Country into New Political Crisis / Jul 7, 2021

Democracy Now!

Haiti is reeling from a new crisis after President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in an attack on his home in the outskirts of Port-au-Prince early Wednesday. In a statement, Haitian Prime Minister Claude Joseph said “a group of unidentified individuals” attacked the private residence of the president, killing him and injuring the first lady. Moïse, who had led Haiti since 2017, was accused of orchestrating a coup to stay in power beyond February 7, when his term officially ended. For months Haitians have staged large protests against Moïse demanding he leave office, but Moïse clung to power with support from the Biden administration, which backed his claims that his term should end next year. Dahoud Andre, a longtime Haitian community activist and member of the Committee to Mobilize Against Dictatorship in Haiti, says rumors are flying about who could be behind the killing. “As of now, we have no clue where this assassination came from,” Andre says, adding that “the Haitian people loathed Jovenel Moïse” and describing him as a “tool” of the United States. We also speak with Kim Ives, editor of Haiti Liberté, who says the assailants appear to have been well resourced in their attack. “Clearly this was a fairly sophisticated operation,” Ives says.

Let the People Decide: Former Haitian Gov’t Minister on Political Chaos After President Assassinated / Jul 12, 2021

Democracy Now!

Political turmoil continues in Haiti following the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, with multiple people claiming leadership of the country and gangs unleashing a new wave of violence in the streets. Haitian police say they have arrested a key figure in the assassination, 63-year-old Christian Emmanuel Sanon, a Haitian-born doctor based in Florida who arrived in Haiti in June with “political objectives.” Sanon is one of three Haitian Americans now arrested in the attack, along with 18 Colombians. Five Colombians are still at large, and three were reportedly killed. The United States, meanwhile, has sent Homeland Security and FBI officials to Haiti to aid in the investigation but has so far declined a request to send military forces to the country. “We are in an extraconstitutional situation,” says Magali Comeau Denis, a former Haitian minister of culture and communication who acts as coordinator for the Commission to Find a Haitian Solution, a civil society group to resolve the ongoing political crisis. She says none of the people claiming authority in the country right now has any legitimacy, and that political actors and civil society groups need to come together to create a broad consensus on how to move forward. “There is no other legal answer to that situation of exception.”

Caleb Maupin has worked as a journalist and political analyst for the last five years. He has reported from across the United States, as well as from Iran, the Gulf of Aden and Venezuela. He has been a featured speaker at many Universities, and at international conferences held in Tehran, Quito, and Brasilia. His writings have been translated and published in many languages including Farsi, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Spanish, and Portuguese. He is originally from Ohio. As a reporter with RT.com, Maupin's focus has been the United States. He has had many intense interactions with US State Department spokespeople including John Kirby, Mark Toner, and Heather Nauert confronting them about diverse issues like Syria, Russia, and the existence of Israeli nuclear weapons. Maupin was the primary US correspondent for RT’s international broadcasts during the 2016 Presidential elections. He reported from both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, and also directly from the riots in Oakland, California, during the aftermath of the vote.

Rev. 11.11.20

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