The antics of Aristide, René Préval, and current President Martelly
Avril 10, 2017 Aristide insiders now face the reality that their leader is about to depart for other places. He will need an asbestos suit on the coolest days in his final resting place. Over the last years, Aristide’s personal health has declined at a steady rate. Now his condition is accelerating rapidly and...
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Avril 3, 2017 Agatha Christie could have titled it “Murder on Kenscoff Road,” “The Clairin Caper,” or “A Toast to Death,” or, had Preval still been President, “Poison in the Palace,”… No matter what the title might be, Rene Preval was removed from the game by poison in a bottle of clairin, if the...
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Reuters news By Timothy Mclaughlin (Reuters) – One of three Haitian men who recently sued the former mayor of their village accusing him in Boston federal court of murdering, torturing and burning the homes of his political opponents has died, his attorney said on Saturday. Nissage Martyr, a plaintiff in the lawsuit filed Thursday...
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Desperate Haitians living in caves, eating toxic plants in post-hurricane Haiti Mar 25, 2017 Since Hurricane Matthew, families have taken refuge in a cave in Fonds Rouge Dahere on the outskirts of Jeremie. They lost everything in the storm and are left to fend for themselves in what they call “the hole.” On Wednesday,...
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March 24, 2017 MICHAEL COLLINS We are being treated to a line of propaganda to the effect that there was an ongoing, and concerted effort to capture Guy Philippe. This is not true and one must understand the mechanics, and motivation behind the original indictment. It was/is purely political and – we believe, based...
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Guy Philippe Knows ‘Too Much’ and Is a ‘Danger’ to the US By: Kim Ives Published 16 March 2017 The paramilitary says that he has damning information about Washington’s role in the 2004 coup that he helped lead against Haitian President Aristide. “What goes around, comes around,” says the proverb, and former Haitian “rebel”...
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March 22, 1017 A surprise revelation sees Alan Ross, a well-known Miami-based trial attorney, as Guy Philippe’s lawyer. http://www.crimlawfirm.com/employee/alan-ross/ With Ross on board, the government will be hard-pressed to ignore the real facts in this case. The dossier against was created by certain DEA elements to remove Guy Philippe from the game – for...
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Mar 20, 2017 Even before Aristide left his Tabarre lair for his appearance in court, members of his entourage were discussing how the scene would play out. Gunfire that would not endanger the ex-President Aristide, but would injur a few people to generate sympathy. It had worked before. It would work again. Remember the...
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Mar 20 2017 Aristide flexes his muscle, yet again, as his terrorists torched the important market as a message before the Chamber meets to confirm Prime Minister Lafontant. A short time ago Aristide blocked the International Airport, forcing American Airlines cancellation of many flight. Aristide pulled his people from their places as airport security...
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A 2002 photo shows Guy Philippe (far left), one of the rebel leaders of the Resistance Front, in Gonaives after an armed revolt. Peter Andrew Bosch Herald files By Jacqueline Charles and Jay Weaver jcharles@miamiherald.com Just months after a U.S. grand jury indicted ex-Haitian rebel leader Guy Philippe on drug-trafficking charges, federal authorities attempted...
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Haiti Libre: As part of the investigation on the case of former police commissioner Jean Anthony Nazaire, an alleged relative of former President Aristide, in a money laundering case, following a preliminary investigation by the Central Unit of (UCREF), Judge Jean Wilner Morin issued a warrant to appear as a witness, on behalf of...
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March 15, 2017 Airline passengers, expecting an early-morning arrival in Haiti, were surprised at the unannounced diversion to Puerto Rico. Aristide effectively controls the staff at our international airport and the security people went on an unannounced, unexpected strike, demanding some ludicrous amount for a day’s work. Someone said it was $300.00 American per...
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11 mars 2017, www.lenational.org Dans mon dernier article paru dans Le National sur l’Affaire Guy Philippe, j’avais mentionné une requête en dessaisissement pour défaut de compétence personnelle soumise par l’avocate de M. Philippe au tribunal fédéral du Sud de la Floride. En gros, Me Zeljka Bozanic essayait d’obtenir un non-lieu sur la base de...
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Members of the National Palace General Security Unit (USGPN) carry the coffin of Haiti’s former President Rene Preval after his funeral in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, March 11, 2017. REUTERS/Andres Martinez Casares By Makini Brice | PORT-AU-PRINCE Thousands of Haitians gathered on Saturday to say an emotional final farewell to former President Rene Preval, 74, the...
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VOA News: Former Haitian President Michel Martelly, left, comforts Patricia Preval, the daughter of Haiti’s late former President Rene Preval, at the Sainte Claire hospital in Petion-Ville, Haiti, March 3, 2017. As Haiti prepares for Saturday’s state funeral for former President Rene Garcia Préval, his death has taken on an air of intrigue. When...
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by Charles Lane, The New Republic Port-au-Prince Sept 25, 1997 The Haitian police who stumbled upon Eddy Arbrouet one night last May thought he was a dangerous bank robber, but they probably didn’t know just how dangerous until Eddy and his gang opened fire. Amid the hail of heavy- caliber bullets, one cop dove...
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Mar 8, 2017 At around 9 A.M. we learned that the autopsy was underway and there was no evidence of a cerebral hemorrhage. Since a doctor, who had seen Preval shortly after his collapse, said there were no traces expected in a cardiac failure we assumed that poison was a real possibility. Shortly after,...
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Gulf Times: Rene Preval Reuters/Port-au-Prince Former Haitian president Rene Preval, 74, the first leader in Haiti’s history to win a democratic election, serve a full term and peacefully hand power to a successor, died on Friday after falling unconscious at his home. The cause of death for the two-time president was not made public....
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HASTA LA VISTA, TI RENÉ! A l’école de la Démocratie, ouverte en 1986,Ti René Préval s’est inscrit. Comme beaucoup d’autres citoyens désireux de servir Haiti et de contribuer à l’amélioration des conditions de vie de ses compatriotes. Idée neuve dans une culture forgée par quatre cent ans de colonialité et d’esclavagisme, deux cents ans...
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Associated Press | PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Rene Preval, a low-key technocrat who led Haiti as president during the devastating January 2010 earthquake and a messy and prolonged recovery, has died. He was 74. Preval, who had the distinction of being the only democratically elected president to win and complete two terms in a...
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