update: American Mercenaries’s mission exposed as a cash extraction operation

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-haiti-politics/haiti-vows-to-trim-expenses-and-investigate-petrocaribe-amid-protests-idUSKCN1Q60PK

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The current leadership in Haiti has been a disaster for the people as the only thing this leadership has done is loot from the people, and allowed foreign investors access for the same for a small fee. Hopefully the protests usher in more qualified leadership.

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I wonder if Kurt Vonnegut, while creating a "perpetually cursed' Caribbean country of San Lorenzo, might've been thinking of Haiti's historical inability to catch a break.

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Has there ever been a leadership in Haiti since the rise of Papa Doc that hasn't been massively incompetent, venal and loathsome though? The best was probably Aristide, and he was pretty awful. The current crew is pretty sure though. Remember during the election campaign when the then incumbent president released a song about sodomising a critical journalist with a banana?

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Remember during the election campaign when the then incumbent president released a song about sodomising a critical journalist with a banana?

It's weird to see a Black man taking from the "Pitchfork Ben" Tillman's book.

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U.S. MERCENARIES ARRESTED IN HAITI WERE PART OF A HALF-BAKED SCHEME TO MOVE $80 MILLION FOR EMBATTLED PRESIDENT

MOST OF THE Americans arrived in Port-au-Prince from the U.S. by private jet early on the morning of February 16. They’d packed the eight-passenger charter plane with a stockpile of semiautomatic rifles, handguns, Kevlar bulletproof vests, and knives. Most had been paid already: $10,000 each up front, with another $20,000 promised to each man after they finished the job.

A trio of politically connected Haitians greeted the Americans when their plane landed around 5 a.m. An aide to embattled Haitian President Jovenel Moïse and two other regime-friendly Haitians whisked them through the country’s biggest airport, avoiding customs and immigration agents, who had not yet reported for work.

The American team included two former Navy SEALs, a former Blackwater-trained contractor, and two Serbian mercenaries who lived in the U.S. Their leader, a 52-year-old former Marine C-130 pilot named Kent Kroeker, had told his men that this secret operation had been requested and approved by Moïse himself. The Haitian president’s emissaries had told Kroeker that the mission would involve escorting the presidential aide, Fritz Jean-Louis, to the Haitian central bank, where he’d electronically transfer $80 million from a government oil fund to a second account controlled solely by the president. In the process, the Haitians told the Americans, they’d be preserving democracy in Haiti.

It was too good a deal for the band of semi-employed military veterans and security contractors to turn down.

But a day after the Americans landed in Haiti, they would find themselves in jail and at the center of a political uproar, with Haitians asking what a group of foreign mercenaries was doing at the central bank and who they were working for. Within three days, Kroeker and his team would be released and sent back to the U.S., having somehow managed to escape criminal charges in Haiti.

What a ride of a story! Also, the Sugarcane oligarchs connected to all this, the Fanjul brothers, endorsed Trump.