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Haiti: New U.S. Military Base?


The U.S. government is making full opportunistic use of the tragedy caused by the earthquake in Haiti. The white house forced the local government to agree to fill their country with U.S. Marines and troops of the 82nd Airborne Division, in an operation which has nothing to do with humanitarian assistance but with military occupation.

Thus, the streets of Port au Prince, full of rubble and with a bewildered population with infinite needs, are scenes of a large deployment of U.S. soldiers armed to the teeth more common in a military conflict than in a humanitarian catastrophe.

The gardens of the ruined National Palace, seat of the Haitian government and symbol of sovereignty, suffered the ígnominy of being used as a landing strip for helicopters which, instead of bringing aid to the thousands of survivors crowded around the palace, have started to occupy the center of the city, after taking control of the airport.

Some people must have noticed the repetition of the events of 1914 when, with the pretext of protecting U.S. citizens allegedly threatened by a popular uprising, the U.S. troops landed in Port-au-Prince after fierce bombings and remained there for 19 years.

The middle-aged and youngest people should remember the two most recent invasions in 1994 and 2004. In both cases the United States employed the argument that the intérnal instability of the country was threatening international security.

This time Washington used the earthquake as a pretext to complete its strategic control in the Caribbean.

The U.S. military forces in Haiti are already comprised of 13,000 troops. They are supported by the Carl Vinson aircraft carrier, the Underwood and Normandy warships, with the capacity of launching cruise míssiles, as well as the Bataan helicopter carrier. Of course, they are not part of the U.N.contingent or belong to the Mission for the Stabilization in Haiti, the MINUSTAH.

The United States with the Haiti under its control would be closing a strategic square of the entíre Caribbean Sea. This square would be formed at both western ends by Haiti, and the illegal naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and in the east by the facilities in Aruba and Curacao, and Colombia.

Remember that in the islands under Dutch control, the Pentagon maintains the constant presence of 300 men with combat capability, as well as five F-15 or F-16 planes, three reconnaissance aircrafts, a flying radar Awac type with continental scope, and maritime control devices.
Colombia has allowed itself to be turned into a giant U.S. aircraft carrier after the military agreement which betrays any spirit of peaceful Latin American coexistence, and places loaded missiles aiming at its neighbors, including Venezuela, Ecuador, Paraguay, Bolivia, Brazil and Nicaragua.

To all this armed capacity, the Pentagon has added four facilities in Panama, a radar station in Costa Rica, a military base in Soto Cano or Palmerola, Honduras, another military base in Ilopango, El Salvador, and the ones in Puerto Rico.

If we imagine the Caribbean as a huge diamond, we realize that it is full of U.S. troops from north to south and from east to west. This presence is not in for nothing, it is a real threat to all our peoples, particularly to those where the struggle for freedom is so advanced.

The United States is a genetically aggressive and expansionist nation. This isn’t anything new for us. It was predicted by our founding fathers who wisely warned us about the need of uniting together, of standing our ground and not to give in to the enormous danger this military power represents for our life and our dignity.

Taken from Radio Havana Cuba

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Op vrijdag 22 januari 2010 13:34 schreef SoldMayor het volgende:
Echt

Zijn er nou echt mensen die denken dat Amerika nu ineens Haiti gaat bezetten enzo?

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Op vrijdag 22 januari 2010 16:11 schreef Q.E.D. het volgende:
Nation building, iets waar de Amerikanen heel goed in zijn.

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Op vrijdag 22 januari 2010 16:17 schreef maartena het volgende:

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Werkte redelijk in Japan, Duitsland en Zuid Korea.
Of Irak wat gaat worden, moeten we nog maar afwachten.....
Afghanistan, dat word nooit iets.
Panama gaat trouwens ook redelijk.

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Op vrijdag 22 januari 2010 16:15 schreef maartena het volgende:

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Ja:

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Maar qua wereldleiders heb je het daarmee wel gehad. Zelfs Castro heeft het Cubaanse luchtruim geopend voor Amerikaanse vliegtuigen die naar Haiti gaan.

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Op vrijdag 22 januari 2010 11:16 schreef marcodej het volgende:
*Waarschuwing* Schokkende: Vermeende looters worden neergeschoten...

http://www.dumpert.nl/med(...)ecutie_in_haiti.html

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Bevat schokkende fotos

PORT-AU-PRINCE–The little girl in the blue-and-white gingham dress and tightly braided hair gingerly poked her head into the excited mob that had gathered by the curb across from the crumbling church.

A man lay there dying, his swollen nose exhaling blood.

The mob had bound him in rope and dragged him down the street.

The mob had beaten him with a long wooden stick.

Bron

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Haiti looting horror: Girl shot dead by police for taking paintings

The horrifying aftermath of Haiti's earthquake has claimed another victim in the form of a 15-year-old girl, an apparent looter, shot dead by police.

Fabienne Cherisma was killed with a bullet to the head after taking paintings from a wrecked shop in downtown Port-au-Prince on Tuesday.
Bron

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The United States on Friday secured formal approval for the U.S. military to help oversee all Haitian air and sea ports, and to help secure Haitian roads in support of international relief efforts, according to an agreement signed in Haiti by the United States and the United Nations.

The pact gives Haitian authorities and the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti primary responsibility for maintaining law and order in the earthquake-ravaged country. But it grants the United States broad scope to intervene in civil disturbances, subject to a request by Haitian authorities.

The agreement says American authorities will establish a U.S. Joint Task Force Haiti to support the international humanitarian response. The task force will have responsibility for ensuring a functioning transportation system in Haiti and ensuring access to the country's air and sea ports and roads.

Friday's pact simply formalizes powers that the U.S. military has already been exercising in Haiti.

The agreement states that the U.S. military will remain under the "autonomous" American chain of command but that U.S. authorities will "take into account and, as appropriate, fully support priority humanitarian and logistical requirements identified by the United Nations in their response activities."

The pact, which was not signed by Haitian leadership, says Haiti welcomes U.S. efforts "to support the immediate recovery, stability and long-term rebuilding of Haiti."

Washington Post

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Op zaterdag 23 januari 2010 02:40 schreef tjoptjop het volgende:
Waar is de regering van Haiti eigenlijk?

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Op zaterdag 23 januari 2010 02:40 schreef Q.E.D. het volgende:

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Bestaat niet meer, op een paar corrupte dikke politiemensen na.

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Op zaterdag 23 januari 2010 02:40 schreef tjoptjop het volgende:
Waar is de regering van Haiti eigenlijk?

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Op zaterdag 23 januari 2010 02:54 schreef tjoptjop het volgende:

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alsin vermist/overleden of gewoon gevlucht omdat ze de stress van werken niet aan konden?

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Op zaterdag 23 januari 2010 02:40 schreef tjoptjop het volgende:
Waar is de regering van Haiti eigenlijk?

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Where is Haiti's government?

As Haitians scramble to get their lives back in order, many observers are wondering what has happened to the country's government, which has kept an unusually low profile since the Jan. 12 earthquake.

"We have a vacuum of government," Michèle Pierre-Louis told The New York Times. The 62-year-old Pierre-Louis was Haiti's prime minister for just over a year, until November 2009 when she was ousted by the country's Senate in a power play.

"The big question," she says, "is 'Who's in charge?' We don't feel as though there is someone organizing all this."

Since the earthquake, René Préval, Haiti's president, has "been largely invisible to his countrymen," Tracy Wilkinson reported in The Los Angeles Times.

Preval has met with some foreign leaders and spoken with the international press but, 10 days on, he has yet to address the Haitian people, an absence that seems to have left many if not most Haitians wondering if there is a government at all.

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Op zaterdag 23 januari 2010 02:16 schreef NorthernStar het volgende:
Alle lucht en scheephavens, wegens en spoorlijnen van Haiti vallen nu officieel onder Amerikaanse controle.

Plus hebben ze de autoriteit om in te grijpen bij "sociale onrust".
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Ok, het is niet ondertekend door de regering van Haiti, maar een kniesoor die daar op let. Geregeld, klaar.

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Op zaterdag 23 januari 2010 03:16 schreef NorthernStar het volgende:
Ik vond wel een bericht van een ex-regeringslid.

Ex-minister warns of US 'takeover' of Haiti

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Op zaterdag 23 januari 2010 10:00 schreef waht het volgende:

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Sorry hoor maar een bezettingsmacht is het BESTE wat Haïti op het moment kan overkomen. Alles is op dit moment beter dan een anarchie waar rovende bendes de lakens uitdelen.

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Op zondag 24 januari 2010 00:09 schreef Szura het volgende:
Breaking News, ze hebben een man onder het puin gevonden.
Ze proberen hem er nu uit te krijgen. Hij zit al 11 dagen daar.
Wordt al gesproken over een wonder.