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Here's a look at what's making Caribbean Headlines.Caricom invites the Trump Administration to the regionTrinidad and Tobago denounces new US government visa rulesSt. Kitts Nevis Reaffirms Independent Foreign Policy Amid U.S.- Cuba RelationsGoodwill opens its 1st Puerto Rico store These and other stories are on today's Pulse of the Caribbean-Caribbean News Round Up for the week of March 10, Episode 2.

0:00- Intro0:08- TransJamaican Highway brought in almost 83 million US dollars in 2024. That's about 13 billion Jamaican dollars -a record high for the company. 0:40- The Bank of Jamaica says it's keeping its benchmark interest rate at 6 percent. 1:10- The Development Bank of Jamaica is inviting applicants for its latest round of the Jamaica Business Fund.1:40- Martinique is set to become an associate member of the Caribbean Community, CARICOM, this year.2:09- Tech giant Apple says it plans to invest more than 500 billion US dollars in the United States over the next four years.

Jornal da ONU, com Felipe de Carvalho:*General brasileiro chega ao Kivu do Norte, na RD Congo, em meio à escalada da violência*Estagnação e inflação pioram crise de insegurança alimentar no mundo, diz Banco Mundial*Chefes de agências da ONU unem-se em alerta para reduzir mortes no trânsito*O Caribe unificado representa uma força imparável, diz líder da ONU

Depuis son retour au pouvoir, le président américain imprime un rythme politique effréné, prend des décisions radicales à la limite de la légalité et paralyse à la fois le camp démocrate et les médias. Analyse de Françoise Coste, professeur à l'Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès et spécialiste de la politique intérieure américaine. RFI : La vitesse de décision de Donald Trump depuis son retour au pouvoir a surpris les Américains, s'agit-il d'une stratégie réfléchie ?Françoise Coste : Oui, car l'idée de « nettoyer Washington », Donald Trump s'en vantait avant même les élections, idem pour la question des expulsions d'immigrés clandestins. Le rythme de signature de ces décrets, plusieurs dizaines en à peine un mois, rappelle les 100 premiers jours de Franklin Roosevelt en 1932, lorsque Roosevelt a été élu au beau milieu de la Grande Dépression économique et qu'il a lancé son New Deal. C'est lui qui, le premier, a eu l'idée d'attaquer très vite, de ruer dans les brancards dès le début pour marquer les esprits. La différence, c'est qu'il y avait de la part de Roosevelt le souci de faire des projets de loi et de s'assurer que le Congrès les vote. Ce n'est pas du tout l'optique actuelle de la Maison Blanche qui opte pour des mesures unilatérales, sans passer par les élus.Faut-il y voir une manière de submerger l'opposition, qui n'a pas le temps de réagir ?Bien sûr, c'est très malin et c'est valable aussi bien pour l'opposition, qui est inexistante, que pour la presse, qui n'a pas le temps de creuser les sujets. On parle d'une à deux décisions par jour qui bouleversent des secteurs que l'on croyait intouchables. Or, l'opposition est à la fois sidérée de l'ampleur de ces changements et de leur rapidité. Elle en devient muette parce qu'elle ne sait pas par quel bout prendre le problème : le temps médiatique et le degré d'attention que les gens portent à la politique ne sont pas compatibles avec des séismes qui équivalent à quatre ou cinq Watergate quotidiens. C'est noyé dans la masse, pas forcément légal, mais ça passe. Sur le plan politique, c'est à la fois inquiétant et objectivement brillant. Quid des contre-pouvoirs comme l'appareil judiciaire, chargé de veiller à la légalité de ces décrets ?Des fonctionnaires fédéraux ont porté plainte pour licenciement abusif, estimant que leur mise à la porte n'avait pas respecté les conventions collectives. Mais il s'agit pour l'instant de plaintes individuelles, éparpillées dans plusieurs États, il n'y a pas d'effet de masse. Par ailleurs, le cours de la justice est très lent, il va falloir enquêter, aller au procès, faire appel à des tribunaux fédéraux, peut-être un jour à la Cour suprême. Tout ce processus peut prendre des années face à un Donald Trump lancé dans une course contre la montre. Il a l'avantage.Les États-Unis se dirigent-ils vers une crise constitutionnelle ?On y est déjà, car la Maison Blanche ne respecte pas le cadre législatif existant. Il y a aussi le manque de transparence, car bon nombre de ces décisions passent par le DOGE d'Elon Musk, qui n'est pas une agence créée par le Congrès et n'a pas de véritable statut. Dans le système américain, les ministres, les responsables des agences fédérales doivent être auditionnés par le Sénat et leur nomination validée par un vote. Personne n'a validé la nomination d'Elon Musk, personne n'a une idée précise de ses responsabilités juridiques. Prendre de telles décisions qui réorganisent de manière radicale le fonctionnement du gouvernement fédéral, sans cadre légal, c'est une attaque directe contre la Constitution.À écouter aussiQue retenir du premier mois de Donald Trump à la Maison Blanche Coup de rabot annoncé au PentagoneDans la série des coupes budgétaires, 50 milliards de dollars, soit 8% du budget, vont disparaître des crédits de la Défense. POLITICO a mis la main sur un mémo confidentiel qui témoigne d'un énorme coup de frein, y compris sur des investissements considérés jusqu'ici comme prioritaires : sous-marins de la classe Columbia, systèmes satellitaires, nouveaux avions. Mais surtout, le Pentagone serait amené à rappeler dans un futur proche au moins une partie de ses soldats déployés en Europe et au Proche-Orient. Il s'agit, selon le ministère américain de la Défense, de s'aligner sur les priorités de la campagne Trump : priorité à la sécurisation des frontières, à la mise au point d'un système anti-missile comparable au Dôme de fer israélien et fin des politiques d'inclusion et de diversité au sein de l'armée. À lire aussiÉtats-Unis: face à l'offensive de Trump et Musk, les fonctionnaires refusent de céder La semaine de Frantz Duval, rédacteur en chef du NouvellisteLe patron du plus ancien quotidien haïtien revient comme chaque jeudi sur les temps forts de l'actualité en Haïti. Les gangs grignotent chaque jour un peu plus de terrain sur plusieurs fronts de la métropole de Port-au-Prince et le Nouvelliste s'en alarme dans un article qui dénonce « l'incapacité, l'improvisation et le bricolage politique au sommet de l'État ».La seule note positive, c'est le maintien du soutien américain : les États-Unis continuent de fournir du matériel aussi bien aux forces de police qu'à la Mission internationale dirigée par le Kenya. L'actualité des Outre-mer avec nos confrères de la 1èreLa Martinique vient de signer un accord d'adhésion à la CARICOM, la communauté des Caraïbes, qui regroupe 15 membres. Le département français y voit de nouvelles opportunités de développement régional comme, par exemple, dans le domaine des produits pétroliers.

António Guterres discursou na abertura da 48ª Sessão Regular do Encontro de Chefes de Governo da Comunidade dos Países do Caribe, Caricom, em Barbados; para ele, a cura para os males e desafios atuais é global. 

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Send us a textIs the Caribbean prepared for the next hurricane season, or are we stuck in a reactive cycle? As I look back on the turmoil of the 2024 hurricane season, I question the chaotic and fragmented approach to disaster relief efforts in the diaspora. Many in the diaspora are eager to help but are caught in a web of mistrust surrounding donation processes. The absence of a centralized organization that can effectively manage and coordinate relief efforts leaves us at a crossroads. The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) under CARICOM exists, and seems to be in the best position to bridge this gap and engage the Caribbean diaspora, especially in the United States, to foster a unified and effective disaster management strategy.Looking ahead to the 2025 hurricane season, there's an urgent call for community preparedness and collaboration. We need to come together to strategize with a focus on proactive planning rather than reactive scrambling. This is a conversation for everyone—community members and organizations alike. By publishing this episode early in the year, my hope is to spark dialogue that will lead to meaningful collective action. Let's build a network of trust and efficiency, ensuring that when the storms hit, we are ready to stand strong together.UPDATE: The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) exists under CARICOM. At the time of my initial research and recording, CDEMA did not accept public donations. It appears to have recently created an account to accept donations for Hurricane Beryl relief. While this is a step in the right direction, there is still a significant gap in the system.

Dans son discours de réception du prix Sakharov, l'opposant vénézuélien en exil s'est livré à un plaidoyer pro-démocratie en forme de défi lancé à Nicolas Maduro. Edmundo González Urrutia avait été distingué à la fin du mois d'octobre par l'Union européenne, en compagnie de Maria Corina Machado, l'autre grande figure de l'opposition vénézuélienne, en raison de leur combat incessant pour les droits de l'homme. À Strasbourg, en présence de la présidente du Parlement européen, Roberta Metsola, il a pris la parole pour rappeler l'engagement des Vénézuéliens en faveur de l'État de droit : « Ce prix incarne un très riche héritage historique. Cette distinction m'engage d'une manière très spéciale, face à la mémoire de ceux qui m'ont précédé en la recevant, tels que Nelson Mandela, Alexander Dubček, Alexeï Navalny ou les dissidents cubains Oswaldo Payá et Guillermo Fariñas. Permettez-moi de l'accepter avec humilité au nom du peuple vénézuélien, qui incarne véritablement l'esprit de ce prix, en reconnaissance de sa lutte courageuse pour restaurer la liberté et la démocratie au Venezuela. Ce prix qui nous est remis à Maria Corina et à moi-même, non seulement nous conforte dans notre engagement, mais il symbolise aussi l'unité entre les démocrates dans le monde. Le Venezuela compte sur vous, parce que la lutte pour la liberté et la démocratie chez nous est aussi la lutte pour ses valeurs sur toute la planète. Vive le Venezuela libre ! »À lire aussiLe prix Sakharov décerné aux opposants vénézuéliens Maria Corina Machado et Edmundo Gonzalez UrrutiaOpérations antigang de la police nationale haïtienne (PNH)Invité comme chaque mardi sur l'antenne de RFI, notre confrère Gotson Pierre, directeur de l'agence Alterpresse, fait le point sur les différentes interventions menées par les forces de l'ordre. La PNH tente de regagner du terrain face aux groupes armés dans la zone de Port-au-Prince ainsi que dans le département rural de l'Artibonite.Gotson Pierre relève par ailleurs qu'en matière de transition politique, la Caricom, l'organisation régionale des pays de la Caraïbe, hausse le ton et s'inquiète en particulier du comportement des trois membres du Conseil présidentiel de transition accusés de corruption. Une réunion sur ce thème s'est tenue hier entre les représentants de la Caricom et les signataires de l'accord du 3-Avril, qui a instauré le CPT.Au Canada, des sapins de Noël de plus en plus près de la natureLe Québec est la province canadienne qui produit le plus de sapins de Noël : un tiers de la production québécoise finit d'ailleurs sa course dans les foyers du nord des États-Unis au moment des fêtes de fin d'année. Et s'il est possible pour les Québécois d'aller acheter leur arbre dans les magasins de bricolage ou auprès de certaines associations, les consommateurs se rendent de plus en plus souvent sur les lieux de plantation. Manière pour les familles canadiennes d'aller trouver elles-mêmes le sapin qui prendra place dans leur maison pour Noël. Reportage de notre correspondante Pascale Guéricolas à réécouter dans son intégralité dans l'édition du jour.L'actualité des Outre-mer avec nos confrères de la 1èreAprès le passage dévastateur du cyclone Chido à Mayotte, la communauté mahoraise des Antilles vit dans l'angoisse depuis quatre jours.

記念撮影に応じる岩屋毅外相とカリブ共同体の外相ら、１４日午前、外務省カリブ海地域１４カ国でつくるカリブ共同体と日本との外相会合が１４日、外務省で開かれ、防災、気候変動などの分野での連携強化を確認した。 Foreign ministers of Japan and member nations of the Caribbean Community, or CARICOM, held a meeting in Tokyo on Saturday.

Foreign ministers of Japan and member nations of the Caribbean Community, or CARICOM, held a meeting in Tokyo on Saturday.

La dernière ligne droite pour Kamala Harris et Donald Trump, qui déploient leurs ultimes efforts pour convaincre les indécis et ceux qui ne sont pas encore sûrs de voter. Les autres ont déjà commencé. Ils sont plus de 50 millions à avoir voté de manière anticipée sur 244 millions d'Américains. L'Ohio enregistre un engouement marqué pour le « early vote », avec de longues files d'attente devant les bureaux de vote. Reportage devant l'un de ces bureaux, surveillé par la police, à Hamilton, dans le comté de Butler, signé Achim Lippold, envoyé spécial de RFI, qui a rencontré des électeurs nombreux. Les conséquences de la campagne de haine contre les Haïtiens aux États-UnisDurant cette campagne, il a beaucoup été question d'immigration. Donald Trump et son colistier en ont fait un thème majeur et ils ont surtout multiplié les déclarations incendiaires. On parlait au début de la semaine des propos injurieux d'un humoriste chauffant la salle avant un meeting de Donald Trump dimanche, à propos des Hispaniques et de Porto Rico, il y a eu aussi et pendant des semaines une polémique, une campagne de haine contre les Haïtiens installés dans la ville de Springfield dans l'Ohio. Et on va y revenir à travers des témoignages que vous avez recueillis dans le sud des US, Vincent Souriau, qui s'est notamment rendu à Nashville dans le Tennessee. La présidentielle américaine vue du KenyaDans le pays d'origine du père de Barack Obama, c'était sur toutes les lèvres au moment de sa première élection en 2008. Aujourd'hui encore, les Kenyans suivent la campagne américaine avec attention, comme l'a constaté notre correspondante à Nairobi, Albane Thirouard. Haïti : la mission multinationale pour la sécurité toujours pas au completAlors que les gangs continuent de gagner du terrain, le journal Le Nouvelliste écrit ce matin : « la coalition Vivre ensemble fait vivre depuis deux semaines un cauchemar aux habitants de Solino », en périphérie de Port-au-Prince. Elle menace d'élargir encore son emprise, le tout sous l'œil impuissant des citoyens et de la diaspora, qui assistent à la destruction d'un quartier autrefois paisible. Dans ce contexte, c'est toujours la guerre froide entre le Premier ministre et le président du Conseil de transition, la communauté des États de la Caraïbe dit sa préoccupation. Selon la Caricom, ce conflit est indécent et distrayant et il met la transition en péril.

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Department of Fisheries hosted a training session on fish salting under the Coastfish project to strengthen the sustainable use and management of coastal fisheries resources across six CARICOM countries.

n the latest episode of "Connecting the Dots," Dr. Wilmer Leon drops bombshell revelations on the U.S. government's alleged attack on free speech. Featuring Chairman Omali Yeshitela recently cleared of shocking charges of being a Russian agent, this episode dives deep into systemic oppression, global politics, and the fight for freedom of expression. Despite government seizures and legal battles, Yeshitela and his colleagues triumphed in court. Don't miss this urgent call to action—your rights could be next!   Find me and the show on social media. Click the following links or search @DrWilmerLeon on X/Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Patreon and YouTube!   Hey everyone, Dr. Wilmer here! If you've been enjoying my deep dives into the real stories behind the headlines and appreciate the balanced perspective I bring, I'd love your support on my Patreon channel. Your contribution helps me keep "Connecting the Dots" alive, revealing the truth behind the news. Join our community, and together, let's keep uncovering the hidden truths and making sense of the world. Thank you for being a part of this journey!   Wilmer Leon (00:00): I opened with this piece last week, and I'm going to open with it again because it's as applicable today as it was last Thursday. The linguist, no Chomsky tells us the smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum, even encouraged the more critical and dissident views that gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate. That's from Noam Chomsky. Is this what the so-called Justice Department is doing via selective persecution and mainstream American media, and those in Western established press are complicit in promoting and protecting. Let's discuss it, Announcer (01:00): Connecting the dots with Dr. Wilmer Leon, where the analysis of politics, culture, and history converge. Wilmer Leon (01:08): Welcome to the Connecting the Dots podcast with Dr. Wilmer Leon. I am Wilmer Leon. Here's the point. We have a tendency to view current events as though they occur in a vacuum, failing to understand the broader historical context in which most events take place. During each episode, my guests and I have probing, provocative, and in-depth discussions that connect the dots between these events in the broader historic context in which they occur. This enables you to better understand and analyze the events that impact the global village in which we live on today's episode. The issue before us is very simply the first amendment, freedom of speech and the US government's attack on this inalienable, right? And my guest is a political activist and author, co-founder and current chairman of the African People Socialist Party, which was formed in 1972 and which leads the O Movement and he's one of the oi, he is Chairman Omali Yeshitela. Chairman Omali, welcome back to the show. Chairman Omali Yeshitela (02:15): Thank you so much. It's very good to be with you, Dr. Wilmer. Wilmer Leon (02:22): Not a problem. Chairman Omali Yeshitela (02:24): But the reason I really want to express appreciation to you and even the comments that you just quoted from Chomsky is that one of the reasons that we were able to come out of that courtroom after going to trial on September 3rd with an amazing victory, and we were able to fracture the total or the absolute solidarity of opinion regarding black people and the righteousness of our struggle and the validity of the criticism that we make against the United States government. Because as you know, we were charged the three of us, me, penny Hess and Jesse Neville with being Russian agents. And then we were charged with conspiring, I guess, to be Russian agents. And what they have done is taken issues like reparations, like the charge of genocide against the United States government for treatment of black people. Our opinion that differed from theirs on the Ukraine war and things like that. (03:35): They're saying that it was the Russians who were responsible. In fact, in the trial itself, they went so far as to say the Russians came up with the reparations idea. Russians came up with the genocide idea. Russians were responsible for the institutions that we've created over the number of years for the liberation of African people. So they would maintain that kind of position, and so that would protect them from any criticism that black people had about our treatment in this country. So they would restrict the discussion so that if we said something that challenges acceptable narrative, then it was because we were paid by the Russian. Some foreign entity was responsible for that. And so I think it was really important that we went to trial and that the jury was able to see through the essential question here, and the state lost in terms of its efforts to criminalize black people fighting for freedom. (04:43): It lost by saying that what we were doing was a consequence of being hired by the Russians. The jury said they didn't believe that the jury said not guilty. We were not guilty of being paid working for Russia and without registering as foreign agents. And the conclusion there was that the struggle of act people is legitimate, that we have legitimate wives, we have legitimate criticism of the government, and we showed the whole history of our fighting around these interests going back many, many years. We connected the struggle of African people here and African other places around the world. We did that during this trial. And so the jury said that they agreed that we had the right to do that. The problem, of course, was the confusing second charge, if you will. I say second, I don't know if it was a second charge, what order if you want to put it in, but there was the secondary charge. (05:45): It was secondary in the sense that not just because the penalty is like five years as opposed to a maximum 10 year penalty that we would've gotten for the conviction of working for the Russians. But also the fact is that the jury was confused by what that meant as I am even as we have this discussion now, what was the conspiracy? If the jury said that we were innocent, that we were not guilty of working for the Russians, then what was the conspiracy? And are they saying that we wanted to work for the Russians but it didn't work and so we conspired to do something and fail to carry it out? Is that what they're saying? And I think it's a lot more to it than that. And of course, we're going to be appealing this and there's a lot of work we have to do between now and then and the work that you have done, the doors you have opened for us and others, forces like yourself contributed to I think this magnificent victory that we had. (06:50): They couldn't put us on trial in the darkness. People were aware of it. People came to Tampa, the courthouse was full, and they had to get a larger courtroom. And every day the courtroom was full. And when the jury looked out at that courtroom, they saw people who looked just like them. And I doubt if they saw anybody that they would've characterized as a Russian there. So that was really important to get the people there, to get people from September 3rd throughout the duration of the trial and to make them have to put this thing carried out in the light of day. And that's what we are contending with right now because we still have to go for sentencing for on November 25th, we'll be going to sentencing and it's going to be important to get people to Tampa to that courthouse for that as well. Wilmer Leon (07:42): You talk about September 3rd, and the trial started on September 3rd. And if my memory serves me correctly, they were expecting a four to five week trial. (07:55): What said. And what they wound up with was not even 10 days. Chairman Omali Yeshitela (08:00): No, no. Wilmer Leon (08:01): They ran out of ammo. They ran out Chairman Omali Yeshitela (08:03): Of ammo. Wilmer Leon (08:04): Go ahead, go ahead. Chairman Omali Yeshitela (08:06): Really important to mention that because the thing is that the government attacked us and according to their own testimony, their witnesses and what have you, they took something like terabytes of materials that constituted at least 1.5 million books. So all the stuff they took from our cell phones, from our laptops, from other devices that we had, it was enough material for 1.5 for one and a million, half million books. And the thing was that out of all of that, I think they used something like four or five emails or stuff from Facebook because there was nothing. There was nothing there. There was no there. And the state did not even have a human being or people who testified against us. All of their witnesses were people who worked for the state FBI agents, they had 12 FBI agents. They had two. So-called experts and experts who didn't know how much under cross examination had to admit, first of all, they knew nothing about the case. Secondly, one of whom had to say that he didn't even know how much he was getting paid for doing this. And he was actually a Russian who was waiting to get his citizenship to be able to achieve citizenship in this country. (09:48): And they were unable going through stuff for more than 10 years of materials and the two year duration after this attack on us. They could not bring a single human being into that courtroom who would validate anything they said about what we stand for, who we are, that we somehow working for Russians, that anything we're doing now is different from what we've done for the last 50 years. They couldn't do that. We were the only human beings in that court when it comes to testimony and what have you. The state testified and then they saw people, and we were the people. And the people in that audience who came to this trial were the people and the jury. The jury. Those were the people as well. Wilmer Leon (10:34): Is this a test case? The ARU three were on trial, but was this a test case? Pennys, Jesse Neville, yourself Chairman, Mali Ello, the three of you, the O three were on trial, but if the government had been successful, if they had gotten a guilty verdict returned on that first charge, how dynamic of a problem for free speech for the Wilmer Leons of the world, for the Scott Ritters, for the professor Danny Shaws and the Dan Vallis of the world. Would this have been Go ahead. Chairman Omali Yeshitela (11:25): Yeah, I think so. I think that very smart people, I think the FBI and the Justice Department are going to have to recalibrate how they take this issue on because it doesn't mean they're going to stop just because of what we have been able to do up to now. They will try to find ways to make even this conspiracy charge unfold in a fashion that challenges free speech rights of people even more. And that the conspiracy charge itself is a challenge to free speech. But this one, I think they'll have to recalibrate this whole thing about working for Russians, et cetera. And I think that people have been watching this, smart people, especially people like Scott Riter, especially people who have the audacity to share views about situation in the world, US foreign policy, what's happening in this country that challenges the narrative that the United States government puts forth itself. I think that people who have been dealing with the cop city question, I think there's a whole array of forces out there who have stakes in the outcome of this trial. And I think that so far we've done much better than I think many expected. And I think we can go ahead and further this by winning this case in the conspiracy. But beyond that, we are going to be doing more Dr. Wilmer. We think that the law itself is a political law. (12:57): When you got a law, it's a political law. It's not a law against robbing, killing, shooting, stealing or kidnapping, anything like that. It's a political law. The law was created for the purpose of carrying out political objectives in the contest with whomever was decided to be the enemy at any given moment. Wilmer Leon (13:19): Lemme jump in really quickly just to say, because I think it's very, very important for people to understand at this juncture, you were not charged with sedition, you were not charged with trying to overthrow the government. You were merely charged with saying things the government didn't like because what you said was consistent with some of the things that the government of Russia and other people in the country have said, which by the way, the things that you're articulating are true. So simply put it, if Russian President Putin comes out and says, the world is round, and you come out and say, the world is round, but Washington will have us believe the world is flat, all of a sudden now you're conspiring with Russians, you're working with Russians, you're operating on behalf of Russians. Chairman Omali Yeshitela (14:28): Well, it doesn't even matter if Putin says the Russian, the world is round and we say the world is round. What they're saying is that we don't have to be lying. What we say has to be something that undermines the United States. Wilmer Leon (14:45): No, I use that example simply to make the point that what you're saying is actually accurate. Chairman Omali Yeshitela (14:52): Yes, yes. Wilmer Leon (14:53): That's my point. Chairman Omali Yeshitela (14:54): Yeah, I think that's true, and I think that's real because at one time we had talked about bringing in experts of our own to testify about the whole history, for example, of the Ukraine War and how all of that stuff got started. And it wasn't just some evil Russians who decide, let's jump on this helpless and defenseless and innocent Ukrainians or something to that effect. And the point is, of course, that it is true what we said. It is true. But even if it were, this is what the court is saying, what the judge affirmed at one juncture, I think, and certainly the prosecution, that even if it was true, even if it's true, the Russians told you to do it and therefore it's a crime, and they say, we will move it from the element of speech now to an action, it becomes an action because the Russian told you to do it. (15:52): So they liquidate the free speech question, and this is what they try to do, and this is their dilemma, not ours, because we didn't write the first Amendment, we didn't write the Bill of Rights. They did it. And they say this is what they stand on and believe in. So they find themselves in this very treacherous and insidious thing all the time of trying to find out how we can have the First Amendment and our first amendment and attack it without attacking it, without obviously attacking it, without saying that we are attacking it. In fact, at one juncture, I think one of our lawyers wrote in a brief calling for the dismissal of the charges that we could have been talking about Russian cuisine, and would that have served the purpose of a charge working for Russian? They said, yes, if the Russians told us to say something about Russian cuisine and we did it, that would be working for the Russians. (16:50): It's garbage. It's a garbage law, and we intend to take it on. I mean, because this is just one aspect of it, fighting against these particular charges. But the law itself is a political law. It is a law based on politics. It's not a law based on criminal activity or anything except what the political climate at the moment requires. And so that's something that all of us have to be really concerned about as well, not just the winning in this particular case, in this particular instance, because it's still there and it's still something they can use. And they need to be put on the back foot around this question of having this 9 51 or whatever it is that they can say, somebody's working for Russia or somebody's involved in some kind of conspiracy because it meets the political objectives. Objectives, yeah. Yeah. Wilmer Leon (17:46): In fact, let me take a moment here and read the First Amendment, quote. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press or the right of the people peacefully to a assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances and What I think is also important for people to understand about the First Amendment, the framers of the Constitution, we're very, very careful. Every word, every comma, every is in a particular place for a reason. So when they open the first Amendment by saying Congress shall make no law, what that is telling everyone is that this is a protection of the American people against action by the government. They could have said, you have the freedom of speech. They could have said, you can say what you want, you can write what you want. No, it's not. They are protecting individual rights by prohibiting action by the government. It's called a negative, right? Chairman? Yes. Chairman Omali Yeshitela (19:16): I think that's really important. And I think this is what we've been talking about all along because that is in the Constitution, who has fought harder for the Bill of Rights than black people in this country. Historically, we started out with no rights that didn't apply to us. So free speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of association. We've been fighting like hell for this since we've been here. Every aspect of our existence in this country has been fighting for the benefit of the Constitution. So that is true. And I think that part of what we are looking at, so African people, black people, we've led around that question, we've led around this question of the Bill of Rights and the free speech, and we still are. And that was because even when this was put forward, when this was ratified, but the Congress, it didn't include us because we were enslaved in 1791 when this was ratified. (20:06): So we've been fighting forever up to now to this very moment until a trial that we just went to for the right to free speech, the right to freedom of association, the right for freedom of assembly, the right for freedom from unreasonable search and seizure. We've been fighting for that. And now the problem is because it is in the Constitution, how can they attack us on the one hand without obviously offending the Constitution and the Bill of Rights? And so that's the problem they're trying to solve. And so they're saying, except for now, they're trying to come up with an exception. And that's what even this law, this political law that they've come up with, it calls on the people, the court and everybody to overlook this constitutional right under these circumstances that's chosen for political reasons at political times in place. That's what we are looking at right now. (21:02): And the thing about that too, Dr. Wilmer, that's so important to us. I mean, the whole thing is important to us and to all the people. Make no mistake about it. When they come at us, it is not us because we never had the free speech. But it's for all those other people who, but the presumption that they had these rights presumption of free speech. So when they attack us and using attack on the First Amendment, it's on everybody's right to the First Amendment that's under assault. But I think it's especially and particularly significant for us, what we've seen just transpire because what they have concocted is this notion that everything is wonderful and peaceful. Everybody is acting civilized. There are no oppression of black people. There are no contradictions that we have that are legitimate contradictions. If we are criticizing the government, if we are criticizing our treatment, it's because we are working for some foreign agent, not because it's a legitimate criticism that the government has to respond to. (22:01): So as opposed to responding to it, as opposed to responding to the genocide convention that we are talking about, they have violated, they steal all of the 130,000 signatures and they say, the Russians are the one who got us to do this. Instead of dealing with the questions of what is happening to us as the people, a huge number of African people in prison and stuff, like they said, you can't make that complaint. That's not you making that complaint. It's Russians making that complaint through you. So they were nullified, they were nullify criticism by black people against the government itself. So not just an individual, it's the whole black population that has denied the right to criticize our treatment by the United States government. And that's been the fundamental thing that's really important, and that's why this winning this, at least on the question of working for Russians, that's why that was such an important thing to occur. And we still in the trenches having to fight all the way down the line around the other aspect of this charge. Wilmer Leon (23:07): Do you see similarities between the persecution that you all are enduring and what the United States did to Julian Assange, the Australian publisher who through WikiLeaks released documents that he had received government documents that he had received that exposed a number of American diplomats and a number of American elected officials for lying to the American people and to the world. The United States through an attempt of extradition, held Julian Assange in Belmar prison in London for seven years. He now has been released. He's now back in his home country of Australia. And when in fact, the United States was going after somebody for violating espionage and acts when he's not an American, never been to the United States, they were using their extra judicial reach in getting one of their proxies Britain to try to carry out their torture of another individual. Are there similarities between that and what the United States did to you? Chairman Omali Yeshitela (24:24): There certainly are, and I think that many, if not of the people who are tied to the Assange struggle, recognize that as well. We have been in touch with members of his family and they're members of the Assange resistance that have come on board in terms with us and even going into September, and we expect they'll be with us going to November 25th when we have to go and face the sentencing. So it is an absolute thing, and I'm old enough and dumb enough to have been impressed when we were hearing this stuff coming from our civic classes, et cetera, about free speech. I mean, I believed in free speech. Absolutely. I still do. Yeah. I don't think nobody believes more than freedom than slaves. You know what I mean? (25:19): And all of our children, all of our teachers taught us around this. I mean, they were really preached that to us. And so we were firm believers in this. We didn't need any Russians. We had our own experiences and we had magnificent training from teachers who really passionate, believed in free speech and had to believe in free speech to survive and to be able to pursue our interests. I mean, I was the same age as Emmett Till when he was killed. What was that murdered? It was at 1955. 55? Yeah, I was 14. He was 14 years old. And they murdered him. They said, because he whistled at a white woman, which was really dubious. And even if he did, so what? But the thing is, they murdered this kid, and it was something that traumatized the entire black community when his mama refused to allow him to bury him to have a closed casa at his funeral, she wanted Wilmer Leon (26:19): Mamie till, Chairman Omali Yeshitela (26:20): Yeah, Wilmer Leon (26:22): Mamie Till wanted the world to see. I think the quote was, I want the world to see what they've done to my son. Chairman Omali Yeshitela (26:29): Yes. And Jet Magazine blew it up, and all the Africans saw that, and it traumatized us all and to know that people can kill you like this with impunity. But anyway, yeah. Wilmer Leon (26:47): So people listening to this that may not have seen you on the show before, many may be asking why. Why was this done? I will posit that the world is changing the empire, the United States, what was formerly the Empire after World War ii, its power is on the wane. Other forces is turning from a unipolar world to a multipolar world. China, Venezuela, Russia, the Middle East, A number of countries have decided we're not going to follow that playbook anymore. We're going in another direction. They're doing it peacefully, much to the United States dismay. And there's a story, there's a narrative that the United States wants to continue to tell that isn't true. And through social media, through the internet, through the use of technology, there are more voices out there now that are exposing that lie for what it is. And I believe that's really at the heart. That's the crux of your problem. What say you, sir? Chairman Omali Yeshitela (28:11): I think you're absolutely correct. I think it's really important for our listeners to understand that when we talk about how the world is changing and what have you, this is not just some abstract issue. Announcer (28:26): It has a lot to do with the cost of oil and gas and properties and the relative power that the United States versus other countries that it is contending with for domination in the world, et cetera. There are all kinds of important issues. I mean the aspirations and hopes and et cetera. The majority of the people who live in this country are tied to the maintenance of the status quo, maintaining the control of the people in Iran and Afghanistan and Nicaragua and Venezuela and the black communities in this country, and maintaining control of the people in these concentration camps, reservations that Indian reservation they call concentration camps. So there's a lot at stake here. I mean, all of the petroleum in the world, I mean it is located in these countries that's contesting for freedom like Iran, like these other places. And the others who have been pushed out of history. I mean China, up until recently, people used to refer to China. People who were not doing well or who didn't appeal to have good promise, they were saying, you got as much. You don't have a China mans chance at Wilmer Leon (29:42): This time. China used to be called the sick man of Asia, and they decided that they were going to shred or shed that moniker and that they were going to readjust their culture. They were going to readjust their economy. They were going to readjust their society and that they were going to rise from the ashes. And to that point, another example, the Association of Sahel States, if we look at Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso and how they have been able to throw off the yoke of colonialism by removing France and the United States from their countries, they're now trying to stand. Talk a little bit about what the association of Sahel states, what some of these African countries are doing now, taking control of their own economies. Chairman Omali Yeshitela (30:36): Yeah, I mean that's a fundamental thing. And they're moving toward it. And the association SA Health states more effectively at this point, apparently, than most of the African entities that have come to be independent, because they're not just independent. They are combining. They, because as you know, Africa and its current designation countries and stuff like that, that was created by Imperialists, by the colonizer. They drew those lines, they drew those board split up people, et cetera. It makes it very difficult for Africa to even access his access own resources collectively. But France can access all of our resources as France. They can get resources from Burkina Faso, Mali, all of them and 14 different entities. France could play one off against the other, but we couldn't get our access to our own resources, right? When France would overthrow entities, governments that tried to do that, independent of France. (31:38): So that's a real kind of issue. And so I'm really appreciative of what these forces are trying to do, but it's very, very, very difficult because as you've probably seen since, because the France and the United States were using the basis for having these foreign troops, French troops in the Sahel, that they had to fight these jihadists, the jihadist terrorists and et cetera, and the moment the people kicked them out, then you see the rise of terrorism again. They say, you see people getting killed, slaughtered, and I'm convinced that the same forces are slaughtering them that are responsible for overturning the government of Ukraine when it did not suit their requirements and needs. They want to be able to have us say that we can't govern ourselves or to indicate we can't govern ourselves, and therefore the white man has to come in and take charge of our affairs. (32:35): Look at what's happening in Haiti right now. Look at how they're doing in Haiti. They've been doing for how long in Haiti. Right? And that's an aspect of the contradiction. We have to understand that there are all kinds of ways in which the colonizers attempt to advance their interests. And part of what they would try to do is to create a situation where you beg for them to come back. And they have succeeded in doing that. They're almost succeeded in doing that in Nicaragua. But Nicaragua people won their freedom and they started bombing and hurting people in Nicaragua to extend and demanding, and that the Nicaragua was having an election. The people were so terrified that they actually voted the revolutionary organization out of power for temporarily. So they will do that kind of thing. And this is really serious stuff. And I just want to say Dr. (33:28): Wilmer, that the oppressed never determines what methods are going to use to be free, the oppressor. If we could walk up to the White House or walk up to important staff and say, please, let's be free. Let us be free. And they say, okay, you're free now. And that was real. That would be cool. But that's not the case. Every instance you see all around the world, the oppressive, the determination of what it was going to take to be free was made by the oppressor. The oppressor. I mean, everybody tries to solve the problem the easy way. African people go, we pray, we beg, we nonviolent, do all of those kinds of things, and then they kill us and all around the world, not just us, but other oppressed peoples everywhere. So it is never been up to us to determine what methods are going to be used to be free. We don't want violence. We want violence out of our lives, but they employ violence of all sorts against us, and sometimes they disguise where the violence is coming from. Wilmer Leon (34:33): A couple of things that come to mind. First of all, let me be sure I explain why we went from the discussion of your trial to the discussion of the Association of Sahel States. And I brought that up as an example of how the world is changing, how we are shifting from a unipolar one control United States in control to a multipolar world. That's why I brought that up. Chairman Omali Yeshitela (35:03): Right? Wilmer Leon (35:05): You mentioned mentioned hate Chairman Omali Yeshitela (35:06): sounds like, What sounds like Putin. Wilmer Leon (35:09): Well, okay, movement of Russia, hey, right is right. The world is round, the world is round, and one plus one does equal two. Even in Russia, one plus one equals two. Chairman Omali Yeshitela (35:23): That's right. Wilmer Leon (35:24): The other point you mentioned, Haiti, and I just want to point this out to show some of the contradiction and some of the hypocrisy at the debate between Donald Trump and Vice President Harris. Donald Trump made that utterly racist, ridiculous, asinine statement about Haitians eating pets in Springfield, Ohio. And Kamala Harris was aghast at that statement. She was mortified by that statement as she should have been. But here's the question. Where is the outrage of the United States tried to reinvade Haiti? Kamala Harris as Vice President, went to the CARICOM meeting, the meeting of the Caribbean states trying to convince and twist the arms of the leaders of CARICOM to back the United States invasion of Haiti. So on the one hand, she's aghast to Donald Trump's ridiculous assertions and racist assertions about Haitians eating animals in Springfield, Ohio. But if the Biden administration wasn't trying to invade Haiti, most of those Haitians wouldn't have been there in the first place. They'd be in their own country enjoying their own meals, living in their own space, doing their own thing. So I'm waiting for people that are as aghast at Trump's racist statement to be as aghast at the Biden administration for the Biden administration's racist policy. Your thoughts, sir? Chairman Omali Yeshitela (37:06): I think you take us right back to Chomsky's observation. Like they define this reality and they place constraints on even how people can see. You can't see the whole world. They've reinvented what the quote left and the right are. So now the Democratic Party is left wing and the Republican party, the right wing, et cetera. When did Joe Biden become a leftist or Kamala Harris for that purpose? What has happened to the concept of left and right? I mean, they've redefined everything and they've placed constraints on the ability to, people see anything outside of these parameters, ideological and political parameters that they've established. And I think that's right on. I mean, I even saw that when people proclaimed to be aghast, that Trump talking about building a wall dealing with Mexico and Mexicans, but they ain't saying nothing about the walls that's being built all over Palestine. (38:04): The same people had the ability, the walls built, not unusual and peculiar. It's the thing that people do when they steal land, steal territory, and they want the people to be kept out of their own lands and what have you. So we allow them to define stuff, and that's one of the reasons they would attack us. That's one of the reasons they would attack the whole Bill of Rights in the First Amendment and things like that. Because the matter, the fact is, it's not just a matter of my right to talk. It's the matter of the people's right to hear what I'm saying. And that way they don't have to agree, but that gives them the ability to make an educated disagreement if that's what it is. They don't want that. They can't handle that anymore. And I think the crisis that you just talked about in terms of a changing world, this is critical. (38:50): I mean, it is hard to overstate how profound this transformation in the world that is happening now. It is one that's moving away from the grasp of a soul hegemon. This unipolar world as it's been characterized, is something that's under tremendous amount of stress. And you can see it fracturing and when it happens because so much of the political economy revolves around that. It has serious implications inside the country too. And so that people who have relied on being able to suck the blood of forces from around the world when this stops happening, you see greater amounts of suicide. The death spike, death rate of white people of certain ages began to happen. Alcoholism began to happen. And you see also people attacking the capitol. They attacking politicians who they feel have betrayed their ability to remain the top dogs in the world. And this is not something that's left to just Republicans or Democrats. I mean, this is something that permeates the consciousness of people in this country, and there's a certain presumption of the right of America to dominate the whole world, et cetera. Otherwise even people couldn't even see what's happening in the that under American leadership and dominance without protesting mightily. So yeah. Wilmer Leon (40:15): One of the things also that I think one of the assumptions that a lot of people may have made as it relates to your case is you are engaged in dialogue at a time when America is at war, and that that's what makes your narrative so dangerous. Here's the thing that people need to understand. The United States is not at war. Congress has not declared war in Ukraine. Congress has not declared war against China. Congress has not declared war in the Middle East. There's a whole lot of fighting going on. There are a whole lot of bullets being shot and a whole lot of artillery rounds being launched. But the United States has started those conflicts. But more importantly, the United States is not at war. Chairman Omali Yeshitela (41:16): There's no declaration of war. Wilmer Leon (41:17): There's been no declaration of war by Congress. So this whole thing about the sensitivities of the government and it needing to protect itself against domestic insurrection because this is a time of war, that's not true. Chairman Omali Yeshitela (41:37): No, it's not true. I mean, I'm really disturbed sometime Dr. Wilmer about what often appears to be the gullibility. I don't think this is something generally true in the African community. I mean maybe sectors of the African community, but ordinary black people, we have this experience with the government. We know like treachery abounds as it relates to Cointel Pro. Yeah, coin Pro. And even black people who didn't know about Cointel Pro and just ordinary black people, the dealing that we have with the cops on the beat, everything. I mean, most black people who have a relationship with the government, it's through the police. You know what I mean? That's the direct relationship through the police and the housing projects. Everybody's given the corner, et cetera. And so we don't have the same illusions, not fanciful illusions about the state. And that's one of the reason we used to work hard to pass out, know your rights information to just poor people. (42:40): Because at the moment, poor people know that the Constitution says, I'm supposed to have these rights. And many people don't know. The Constitution say that says that. And because there's nothing in our lives that suggests that we have these rights. But if we say, these are rights, the Constitution says, you have these rights. You should have these rights. And then that often is alone is enough to foster resistance to what's happening to us. They say, I'm not taking this. If the Constitution says I don't have to take it, I'm not taking that. So this tendency too often of people to simply vow to the current iteration of a lie that's based on political domination of peoples and extraction of their wealth and their values, this tendency is something that we have challenged and continue to challenge. And almost everything we've done contributes to that. Almost everything is tied to tactics and strategies. (43:48): We want to be a free people and for us and the African people, social partner who movement, it means like all dignified people, we want to be self-governing. We don't want foreigners and aliens extracting all the value of being able to say that my laborer should not go toward benefiting my community and my children and their children. We don't want that. We opposed to that, we don't want somebody to be able to start wars, that black people are going to be in front lines fighting and all wars. That could actually lead to nuclear, conation, obliteration of the people on earth. We don't want people to be able to do that, and us simply to be here without having any ability to confront the powers that are making these kinds of choices and without even sharing the ability to do that with those of us who live here, who work for a living, who try to work, et cetera. Wilmer Leon (44:47): Well, and also something even more basic than that, you talked about these wars, the wars that we as citizens are paying for. Chairman Omali Yeshitela (44:57): Yes. Wilmer Leon (44:57): And how that money is being wasted, how that money is being stolen. We talk about the military industrial complex in many regards. For example, the United States just authorized almost $600 million to send money for military aid to Taiwan so that Taiwan can turn around and use that 600 million for this year to buy weapons from American arms manufacturers. Well, how many teachers' salaries could you pay with that 600 million? There are so many projects. There are so many things that could be done to truly ensure the safety of this country by improving the standard of living in this country. But unfortunately, those dollars go to Lockheed Martin. They go to Raytheon, they go to the military industrial complex instead of paying people's salaries, providing for healthcare and better education. Chairman Omali Yeshitela (46:07): Yeah, I mean, it's criminal. It would be criminal if the people had any power. Wilmer Leon (46:14): Exactly. Chairman Omali Yeshitela (46:15): It's not criminal now in the sense that the ones who have the power make the laws. The ones who want to do this stuff, make the laws, or if they don't make the laws, they tweak the law. They manipulate how people perceive law and things like that. And every time we get closer to the goal, they move the goalpost on us. They say, well, the law has changed. It used to be that way, but now it's changed. It's no longer that way. Now Wilmer Leon (46:38): The First Amendment doesn't matter anymore. Doesn't Chairman Omali Yeshitela (46:41): Matter anymore. Doesn't matter. There's, Wilmer Leon (46:44): As we wrap this up, what are the three most important things? First of all, there's going to be a rally. There's a rally coming up very shortly. Your sentencing is coming up very shortly. What are the three most salient things you want this audience to take away from this conversation today? Chairman Omali Yeshitela (47:04): Thank you very much. I really would like to win people to come to Washington, DC for the Black is Back coalition mobilization. That's going to happen along with support partnership with the hands off of Rural committee. We still fighting this conspiracy charge and what have you. That's going to be on the 16th annual mobilization, Black People's March. But this Black People's March is going to be an anti-colonial march that will see leadership coming from Palestinians, from Africans, Mexicans, Filipinos, you name it. The people coming together. And for white people who can unite with the rights of black people to have free speech and self-determination. So that's on November 2nd, go to black is back coalition.org. Black is back coalition.org for more information on that. On November 25th, we are going to be sentenced and we are going to be in Tampa, Florida for that at the Federal Courthouse. (48:09): And I'm really calling on everybody, all of you who were able to put off things and put on your calendar coming to the trial. And some people came several times to the trial, believe it or not, no matter of few days, people like Pam Africa and Cam Howard and others, they came several times to the trial. And we want you to come there because we think it's really important for the court to continue to see that the people recognize the significance of what we do and what we stand for. And then finally, we are engaging. And so to get more information on that, go to HANDS-OFF-UHURU, U-H-U-R-U.org. And then finally, what we are involved in is a letter writing campaign. We are asking people to write letters. This is pre-sentence stuff. So some of this is letters that we want to affect the sentence that's going to be handed out on November 25th, which could be as extreme as five years in prison. (49:18): And so we want people to write letters, and you can get more information on that by going to hands off uru.org and continue to support the work that we do because the final analysis, they attacked us because we've been effective in neutralizing or minimizing to some extent the colonial impact in our communities, the economic development programs that we've initiated and things like that. So continue to support us. And again, go to hands off ulu.org. Go to black as black coalition.org, and you can, that will get you everywhere. I'm not going to try to throw out anymore. Yeah. Wilmer Leon (50:01): Chairman Omali Yeshitela co-founder and current Chairman of the African People's Socialist Party, which leads the movement. I want to thank you for your work. I want to thank you for your commitment to our people, and thank you for being a guest on my show today, Chairman Omali Yeshitela (50:18): Dr. Leon, I will not be able to overstate the significance of being here with you and the work that you do and helping the world to see when the corporate and colonial media does do everything they can to keep us invisible. This is extraordinarily important. I think the victories we have up to now are do in part to your ability to keep us linked to the people. Thank you so much. Wilmer Leon (50:42): Well, thank you again, sir. I greatly, greatly appreciate it. I want to thank you all so much for listening to the Connecting the Dots podcast with me, Dr. Wilmer Leon. Stay tuned for new episodes every week. Also, please follow and subscribe. Leave a review, share the show, follow us on social media. You can find all the links below in the show description. And remember, folks, that this is where the analysis of politics, culture, and history converge because talk without analysis is just chatter, and we don't chatter here on Connecting the Dots. See you again next time: Uhuru - Uhuru - Uhuru... Until then, I'm Dr. Wilmer Leon. Have a great one. Peace. I'm out Announcer (51:32): Connecting the dots with Dr. Wilmer Leon, where the analysis of politics, culture, and history converge.

Kamala Harris « devenue noire » pour séduire l'électorat américain. La sortie de Donald Trump sur l'identité de la vice-présidente des États-Unis, née d'un père jamaïcain et d'une mère indienne, provoque l'émoi dans les rangs démocrates. Les propos du candidat républicain devant des journalistes afro-américaines sont d'autant plus controversés que le vote des jeunes hommes noirs est devenu un enjeu de campagne. Historiquement acquis au camp démocrate, le vote des électeurs afro-américains apparaît de plus en plus divisé. Les républicains semblent cibler la population déçue par le camp démocrate et la classe politique américaine : les jeunes hommes des classes populaires, explique Nicolas Rocca du Service international de RFI. Donald Trump s'est qualifié mercredi (31 juillet 2024) de « meilleur président pour la population noire depuis Abraham Lincoln ». Symbole de cette stratégie et de ses limites à Philadelphie, l'ouverture d'un bureau des « noirs avec Trump » début juin 2024 a attiré un public... majoritairement blanc.Kamala Harris, qui multiplie les évènements auprès de la communauté noire, a qualifié la sortie de Donald Trump la visant de « vieux numéro ».L'ancien président « a l'habitude d'utiliser la race pour dresser des groupes d'Américains les uns contre les autres », confirme le New-York Times qui rappelle qu'en 2012, le même Donald Trump exigeait de voir le certificat de naissance... de Barack Obama. Politico y voit la « confirmation de l'insensibilité raciale instinctive qui amarqué la première campagne électorale » de Donald Trump. Les trois accusés des attentats du « 11-Septembre », dont le cerveau présumé des attaques, Khalid Cheikh Mohammed vont plaider coupable pour éviter la peine de mort.Les termes de l'accord, négociés avec le Pentagone, sont révélés par le New-York Times. « Une lettre a été envoyée par les procureurs aux membres des familles des victimes des attentats », rapporte le quotidien. L'objectif est d'apporter pour ces familles une certaine « finalité et justice » à l'affaire, selon les termes de la missive. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Walid bin Attash et Mustafa al-Hawsawi sont détenus dans la prison de Guantanamo depuis 2003. « L'affaire depuis est enlisée dans des procédures préliminaires », avec « la question de savoir si les tortures qu'ils ont subies dans les prisons secrètes de la CIA avaient influencé les preuves retenues contre eux », rappelle le journal. L'accord suscite à la fois colère et soulagement parmi les proches des 3 000 victimes du 11 septembre. Dans le journal conservateur New-York Post, Jim Smith, « veuf angoissé de Moira Smith, la seule policière décédée le 11 septembre, attend depuis 23 ans de témoigner sur ce que ces animaux ont fait à nos proches », en vain. Des proches interrogés estiment que seule la peine de mort pourrait apaiser leur chagrin. Dans une volonté de leur complaire, les procureurs rappellent que dans le cadre de l'accord, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed et les autres ont accepté de répondre aux questions des proches « concernant leur rôle et les raisons pour lesquelles ils ont mené les attentats » précise le New-York Times. Washington estime qu'au Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro a été « clairement battu » par l'opposition dimanche dernier (28 juillet 2024) et que la patience de l'administration américaine avait « atteint ses limites ». Le président sortant continue de se dire vainqueur et menace ses opposants de la prison. En réponse hier (31 juillet), la cheffe de l'opposition Maria Corina Machado a pour la première fois appelé ses partisans à manifester contre Nicolas Maduro, malgré la menace de répression. Les pays de la région, réunis au sein de l'Organisation des États américains (l'OEA) estiment même que l'écart des voix « se compte en millions » entre les deux camps. Le chef de l'organisation compte demander à la Cour Pénale Internationale d'inculper le président vénézuélien pour la répression des manifestations depuis lundi dernier (29 juillet). Les États-Unis et le Canada éprouvés par des centaines de feux. Dans le nord de la Californie, le « Park Fire » - le nom donné à l'incendie - a provoqué l'évacuation de plus de 26 000 personnes et la destruction de plus de 350 bâtiments. Le cinquième plus grand feu de l'histoire de laCalifornieest aussi « l'un des feux les plus rapides qu'aient jamais vu les pompiers », raconte Jay Tracy, ledirecteur adjoint du service incendie de Fresno, au micro de Pauline Gleize du Service Environnement de RFI. L'incendie d'origine criminelle a grossi à cause de la topographie des lieux, des chaleurs caniculaires… et des forêts restées intactes jusqu'ici, qui ont servi de combustible pour les flammes. Les pompiers et la population attendent la pluie. Malgré plus de 5 000 soldats du feu à pied d'œuvre et les renforts, « on n'en viendra jamais vraiment à bout sans la coopération de mère-nature », explique Jay Tracy pour qui l'objectif est de maîtriser complètement l'incendie. Au-delà de Jasper, le Canada fait face à des centaines d'incendies, dont il est difficile de se prémunir. Des études sont en cours pour savoir à quel point leur augmentation peut avoir un impact sur la régénération de la forêt. « Plus on a de feux, plus le paysage se rajeunit et plus c'est difficile à la forêt d'être résiliente », explique Yan Boulanger, chercheur en Écologie forestière à Ressources naturelles Canada [ministère fédéral canadien chargé de la gestion des ressources naturelles, ndlr] En Haïti, la transition en question deux semaines avant l'arrivée de membres de la Communauté des Caraïbes (CARICOM). Une visite d'inspection du processus de transition fixé avec l'instance. Les représentants de la CARICOM auront dans leur viseur « particulièrement le contrôle démocratique et la mise en branle du processus électoral », explique au micro de RFI Frantz Duval, le rédacteur en chef du Nouvelliste. Ce qui pose le plus question, selon l'éditorialiste, c'est l'articulation entre le Conseil présidentiel de transition et le gouvernement du Premier ministre Garry Conille. « Cette articulation est encore délicate et faite de frictions », analyse Frantz Duval pour qui malgré les nombreuses annonces, « il n'y a pas de pas concrets réalisés ». Les Haïtiens, « patients, n'expriment pas encore de grogne mais tout le monde se demande quand [les autorités] se mettront au travail, et surtout ensemble ».Elle entre dans l'histoire des Jeux Olympiques et dans l'histoire de son pays en remportant la médaille d'or et en battant dans le même temps le record olympique au tir sportif. Adriana Ruano est la première championne olympique du Guatemala. De quoi emplir d'émotion tout un peuple. Pour la vice-présidente du pays, Karin Herrera, désormais, « le défi est que cette inspiration atteigne tous les coins du pays, que toutes les jeunes filles et tous les jeunes garçons voient que c'est possible et, surtout, que l'État donne tout ce qui est nécessaire » pour développer la communauté des athlètes nationaux, confie-t-elle àPaula Estañol de la rédaction en espagnol de RFI. Journal de la 1èreNe pas subir silencieusement, mais agir : en Guadeloupe, une habitante de la commune de Deshaies a décidé de porter plainte contre le syndicat mixte de gestion de l'eau et de l'assainissement, nous raconte Frantz Duval. Morceau musical : « Tasmania », de Sofia Gabana et Lupita's Friends.

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Today on Sojourner Truth, we continue our coverage on Haiti, bringing you the latest news on Haiti, from voices rarely heard in US media including Pacha Vobre who is on the Executive Committee of Fanmi Lavalas the political party of Haiti's Jean Bertrand Aristide. He spoke from the ground in Haiti in April 2424 as part of an event organized by the Haiti Action Committee. Also we hear a presentation of an event entitled “From Haiti to Palestine' which was held in March of 2024, you will hear the presentation given there by Robert Roth, a longtime human rights campaigner in particular for the grassroots movement for democracy in Haiti, Robert is with Haiti Action Committee. And in an exclusive, we hear an interview with the Barbados Ambassador to CARICOM, an economic and political union of 15 Caribbean states. Ambassador Commissiong was recently interviewed on Good Morning Barbados about Haiti, including the transitional government that CARICOM played a key role in negotiating.

Today on Sojourner Truth, we continue our coverage on Haiti, bringing you the latest news on Haiti, from voices rarely heard in US media including Pacha Vobre who is on the Executive Committee of Fanmi Lavalas the political party of Haiti's Jean Bertrand Aristide. He spoke from the ground in Haiti in April 2424 as part of an event organized by the Haiti Action Committee. Also we hear a presentation of an event entitled “From Haiti to Palestine' which was held in March of 2024, you will hear the presentation given there by Robert Roth, a longtime human rights campaigner in particular for the grassroots movement for democracy in Haiti, Robert is with Haiti Action Committee. And in an exclusive, we hear an interview with the Barbados Ambassador to CARICOM, an economic and political union of 15 Caribbean states. Ambassador Commissiong was recently interviewed on Good Morning Barbados about Haiti, including the transitional government that CARICOM played a key role in negotiating.

在西印度群島中，聖馬丁的知名度算是名列前茅，原因不外乎：1.島嶼明明不大，卻被荷蘭和法國分割成一島兩制；2.島上主要機場的跑道頭正好是海灘，也因此成為國際知名的賞機地點。主廚為了前往大圭亞那地區而經過此地，就順路探索了一番，還額外加碼一段前往英國屬地安奎拉的小旅行！ 這座島嶼為何會被分割？來往於兩國之間，需要辦理出入境手續嗎？兩側的景象有何不同？當地人說什麼語言，又使用什麼貨幣呢？這些因為一島兩制而出現的問題，我們會在節目中一一解析！ 來到加勒比海，除了陽光沙灘與海洋，每座島嶼的故事以及文化也是不可錯過的旅行體驗。跟著我們飛到這座不尋常的島嶼去看看吧！ ✅ 本集重點： (00:00:16) 開場，4/3花蓮大地震後的寒暄，大圭亞那三部曲結束之後要來個前傳？ (00:03:56) 聖馬丁概論：在哪？為什麼叫聖馬丁？為什麼會被分成兩半？誰住那裡？怎麼去？ (00:09:18) 傳說級的國際知名賞機點：朱麗安娜（Princess Juliana）國際機場與Maho Beach，再也不來的荷航747 (00:13:32) 最接地氣的交通工具，民眾經營的廂型車小巴士，荷蘭側與法國側城市簡介：Simpson Beach、Philipsburg、Marigot、Grand Case (00:16:56) 走進超市被標價嚇到，聖馬丁到底用什麼貨幣？當地人說什麼語言？ (00:20:03) 從Philipsburg到Marigot，看見島上南北的不同風貌 (00:26:09) 英屬安奎拉，短短的島際航線搭起來卻無比麻煩，令人留下深刻印象的路邊望海小店 (00:30:39) 島嶼不是孤單的！小安地列斯各島的共通點：加勒比共同體CARICOM、嘉年華（狂歡節）、板球運動 (00:33:27) 旅行推薦與攻略，小安地列斯群島其實不適合窮遊背包客？心得與結語 Show note https://ltsoj.com/podcast-ep172 Facebook https://facebook.com/travel.wok Instagram https://instagram.com/travel.wok 意見回饋 https://forms.gle/4v9Xc5PJz4geQp7K7 寫信給主廚 travel.wok@ltsoj.com 旅行熱炒店官網 https://ltsoj.com/

La transition politique progresse en Haïti. Le Conseil présidentiel se met en place laborieusement et la presse suit chaque étape. Gazette Haïti nous apprend qu'un accord a été envoyé hier, à l'organisation régionale Caricom pour transmission au Premier ministre démissionnaire Ariel Henry. Selon ce texte qu'a pu consulter l'agence Alterpresse, la transition s'achèvera, avec l'élection d'un nouveau président, dans deux ans. « Le mandat du Conseil présidentiel (...) prend fin le 7 février 2026 », date à laquelle le nouveau président entrera en fonctions, peut-on lire dans cet accord. Outre cette élection, il y aura au menu de ces 22 mois de transition, de très nombreux chantiers. Alterpresse détaille « les grandes lignes de la feuille de route » : « rétablir la sécurité », assainir les institutions, lutter contre la corruption et l'impunité, préparer « un plan économique pour soutenir la relance humanitaire et économique ». Pour parvenir à tout cela, des « structures seront mises en places », explique l'agence de presse qui parle d'un Conseil national de sécurité, d'un Comité de pilotage, d'un Parquet national financier ou bien encore d'une commission de vérité, justice et réparation pour « faire la lumière » sur les crimes, notamment de sang, commis ces derniers temps.Les zones rurales haïtiennes pas épargnéesPendant ce temps-là, la situation continue de se dégrader en Haïti. C'est désormais tout le pays qui est touché par les conséquences de la crise, y compris les zones rurales. Le site Ayibopost consacre un long reportage à l'Artibonite, « cette zone agricole devenue vallée du crime ». Dans ce département du nord-ouest du pays, « les gangs volent le bétail, attaquent et pillent les paysans (...) Les abus sexuels deviennent monnaie courante (...) Les morts s'empilent. »Dans ces conditions, « beaucoup de paysans abandonnent des terres cultivables », explique encore Ayibopost. Comme l'a raconté Paolo Silveri, directeur pour Haïti du Fonds international pour le développement agricole, à Achim Lippold, en 2023 en Haïti, « la production agricole a chuté de 39% pour le maïs, de 33% pour le riz et de 22% pour le sorgho. La situation est assez grave et elle continue de se détériorer. Le blocage des voies de communication empêche les denrées alimentaires d'être écoulées sur les marchés et empêche aussi les engrais et les semences d'arriver dans les champs. »Le Mexique saisit la CIJDeux jours après un raid de la police équatorienne, pour arrêter au sein même de l'ambassade du Mexique à Quito, un ancien vice-président recherché par la justice, la polémique ne retombe pas. Les autorités mexicaines comptent saisir ce lundi la Cour internationale de justice. Le Brésil, le Chili, l'Argentine, l'Union européenne et même les Nations unies ont critiqué l'Équateur qui se retrouve très isolé sur la scène diplomatique. Comme l'explique notre correspondant à Quito, Éric Samson, le président Daniel Noboa était prêt à prendre ce risque.Premier débat entre les candidats à la présidentielle mexicaineAu Mexique, l'actualité, c'est aussi le premier débat présidentiel qui a eu lieu hier. Un débat « ennuyeux », juge le journal Milenio. Les trois candidats « ne se sont pas écoutés les uns les autres, se sont mal comportés et ont été les personnages d'une fresque déchirée ». Un pays polarisé dans lequel l'autre n'a pas sa place.Au Pérou, une loi menace la forêt amazonienneNotre dossier du jour nous emmène dans la forêt amazonienne, au Pérou où beaucoup d'ONG, de chercheurs et d'États étrangers s'inquiètent d'un retour en arrière concernant la protection de l'environnement avec l'entrée en vigueur d'une nouvelle loi. Soutenu par certains députés proches de grandes entreprises et d'intérêts économiques locaux, ce texte pourrait encourager la déforestation, comme nous le raconte notre correspondante Juliette Chaignon.Aux États-Unis, des républicains comptent quitter le CongrèsUne vingtaine d'élus républicains ont l'intention de quitter le Congrès et à ce rythme-là, à compter du 19 avril, les républicains n'auront plus la majorité au Congrès que d'une voix, souligne le Washington Post. Si ces parlementaires font défection avant la fin de leur mandat, c'est parce que « comme le Congrès est devenu plus partisan, il est aujourd'hui plus difficile de faire voter une loi qui compte vraiment », explique le quotidien.Autre facteur : les tensions internes au sein du parti dont le but, selon un élu, n'est plus de défendre les valeurs conservatrices, mais de « défendre Donald Trump et de marquer des points politiques ».Le journal de la 1èreEn Guadeloupe, le syndicat Unsa se mobilise.

El pasado 11 de marzo el presidente de Guyana y el secretario de estado de los Estados Unidos dijeron que estaban optimistas respecto a la situación de crisis en Haití. El diálogo impulsado por Caricom acordó la creación de un consejo para la transición como paso inicial para crear las condiciones que faciliten la presencia en Haití de una fuerza multinacional de pacificación. Han pasado ya tres semanas completas y anoche estaba la expectativa de que se formalizará el decreto con la integración de un consejo presidencial cuyos integrantes ya son conocidos pero que necesita de la formalidad de un decreto y salvar las guardas establecidas en su constitución para poder operar. De los resultados de esa sesión no hay noticias hoy por lo que habría que suponer que no hubo un acuerdo. Entre el acuerdo de Kingston y el desacuerdo actual las bandas que operan en Puerto Príncipe han intentado tomar la casa presidencial en tres ocasiones, atacaron un parque industrial incendiando más de 90 mil metros de infraestructura y ayer atacaron la Biblioteca nacional de Haití. No hay que ser de la NASA para entender que el recrudecimiento de los ataques y la acción frontal contra lo más cercano a la autoridad que es la casa de gobierno son el mecanismo de presión que tienen las bandas asociadas a Guy Phillipe para luchar contra un acuerdo que puede ser su fin. Las Bandas existen porque no hay en Haití una institucionalidad mínima. Una presencia multinacional que propicie un orden mínimo sería su fin y el de gente como Philippe. En Haití no hay una clase gobernante y la clase política tiene dos características: su incapacidad para llegar a acuerdos sobre premisas mínimas y una enorme insensibilidad ante el dolor de su propio pueblo.  5 millones de personas amenazadas por hambre, 58 mil desplazados en Puerto Príncipe y una capital sin puerto aeropuertos ni hospitales. Fernando Ferrán hace hoy una dolorosa y técnicamente hermosa descripción de la tragedia haitiana que les invito a leer en Acento y usa una palabra extrema: autofagia un pueblo que se come a si mismo.

Hodiē est vīcēsimus septimus diēs mēnsis Martiī, et fēriās vernālēs agimus, quārē nullī adsunt discipulī. Pōns Baltimōrae collāpsus Baltimōrae in Terrā Mariae diē Martis pōns, quī nōmen habet ē Franciscō Scōtiō Key, collāpsus est, cum nāvis onerāria pīlam pontis illīsisset. Vigintī hominēs dēsīderantur. Tōtus pōns corruit, cūius ruīnae in sinū iacentēs prōhibent nē nāvēs portum petant nēve ē portū ēdūcantur. Portus Baltimōrae est inter maximōs numerandus; ibi fuit magnum commercium frūmentī, saccharī, salis, carbōnum, raedārum, quod nunc intermittitur. Chalifātus Islamicus Moscōviam oppugnat Latrōnēs Chalifātūs Islamicī in ōdēum impetum armis automaticīs fēcērunt et aedificium ipsum flammīs dedērunt. Centum et triginta cīvēs sunt interfectī, et multī aliī vulnerātī. Russī autem referunt sē undecim hominēs comprehendisse in Branscō rēgiōne, quæ fīnitima est Ūcraīnae. Prō suā parte Ūcraīnēnsēs strenuē negant sē terrōre prōmōvendō implicārī. Speculātōrēs Americānī crēdunt latrōnēs pertinēre ad ISIS-K, pars Chalifātūs Islamicī quae in Afghāniā versārētur et duōs annōs animum in Russōs intenderet propter ea, quae Russī in Afghāniā, Tsetseniā, Sȳriā fēcissent. Leō Varadkar magistrātū abdicat Leō Varadkar, minister prīmārius Hibernōrum, ex inopinātō nuntiāvit sē ob causās tam prīvātās quam pūblicās magistrātū abdicāre. Ēius factiō, Fine Gael sīve Gēns Hibernica, ab hominibus populāris opiniōnis metiendae perītīs fertur minōre favōre studiōque fruī quam annīs priōribus, dum factiō sinistra, Sinn Fein dicta, prīmum locum obtinet. Reclāmātur in Cūbā Cīvēs Cūbānī in regimen reclāmant, ut quī tam frūmentō quam vī ēlectricā saepe careant. Magistrātūs Cūbānī Americānōs culpant et diurnāriōs capitālistās. Sīnēnsēs in Pakistāniā occīsī Quīnque plūrēs Sīnēnsēs sunt in Pakistāniā occīsī, cum vehiculum, māteriā incendiāriā refertum, in agmen raedārum sē impēgisset. Duo aliī impetūs factī sunt hōc annō in Balūchistāniā prōvinciā, sed hī occīsī sunt in regiōne potius boreālī prope mōlem flūminī oppositam, quam Sīnēnsēs exstruunt ad vim ēlectricam gignendam. Incertum igitur est, utrum Balūchī latrōnēs, quī in merīdiōnālī parte versantur, an Mahomētānī boreālēs impetum fēcerint, cum neuter grex nuntiāverit sē noxium esse. Haītia Extraordinārium Concilium ad rempūblicam restituendam, quod Caricom seu Commūnitas Caribbica abhinc aliquot hebdomadēs nuntāvit cōnstituendum, adhuc nōn est rīte inauguratum. Nam quī in Concilium conscrībuntur, ā latrōnibus perterrentur. Nec latrōnēs ipsī omnīnō ad suum libitum grassantur, sed manūs patrōnīs mōrigerantur, quī ipsī ordinis sunt politicī et vī terrōreque ūtuntur ad sua proposita cōnsiliaque prōmōvenda.

Today on ST an update on Haiti. Well-armed death squads in Haiti, are continuing their campaign of terror against impoverished Haitians. Meanwhile some of the left in the US are confused and are promoting some of the key death squad leaders Guy Phillipe and Jimmy Cherizier (known as Barbque) as revolutionary leaders. And the agreement brokered by CARICOM, the Caribbean heads of state, to establish a Transitional Council after which the much hated Ariel Henry would step down, has yet been finalized. Another name we hear reported on the media is Moise Jean Charles whose political party Petit Dessaline formed an alliance with Guy Phillipe and Barbecue. Jean Charles is said to have ambitions to be President of Haiti. Moise Jean Charles first agreed to be part of the Transitional Council, then changed his mind and said he would not be on the council. He has yet again changed has now said yes his that party would be part of the Council. This has created confusion and further division. Our guest are journalist and Haiti expert Kevin Pina and Haitian human rights campaigner and co-founder of Haiti Action Committee Pierre Labossiere.

Today on ST an update on Haiti. Well-armed death squads in Haiti, are continuing their campaign of terror against impoverished Haitians. Meanwhile some of the left in the US are confused and are promoting some of the key death squad leaders Guy Phillipe and Jimmy Cherizier (known as Barbque) as revolutionary leaders. And the agreement brokered by CARICOM, the Caribbean heads of state, to establish a Transitional Council after which the much hated Ariel Henry would step down, has yet been finalized. Another name we hear reported on the media is Moise Jean Charles whose political party Petit Dessaline formed an alliance with Guy Phillipe and Barbecue. Jean Charles is said to have ambitions to be President of Haiti. Moise Jean Charles first agreed to be part of the Transitional Council, then changed his mind and said he would not be on the council. He has yet again changed has now said yes his that party would be part of the Council. This has created confusion and further division. Our guest are journalist and Haiti expert Kevin Pina and Haitian human rights campaigner and co-founder of Haiti Action Committee Pierre Labossiere.

*) UNSC finally demands Gaza ceasefire in Ramadan after US abstains vote The UN Security Council for the first time in 5 months since the Israeli war on Gaza started has demanded an immediate ceasefire after the United States, Tel Aviv's ally which vetoed previous drafts, abstained. All 14 other members voted in favour of the resolution, which “demands an immediate ceasefire” for the ongoing Islamic holy month of Ramadan. It also demanded the “immediate and unconditional release of all hostages, as well as ensuring humanitarian access to address their medical and other humanitarian needs.” *) Blinken tells Gallant alternatives exist to Rafah invasion US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has stressed that “alternatives exist to a ground invasion of Rafah” in a meeting with Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. Speaking about Rafah, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller earlier highlighted that a “full-scale invasion would be a mistake and that Israel has not presented a coherent evacuation plan for Rafah.” But on top of that, Miller said, “This type of invasion would weaken Israel's security and would make Israel less safe, not more safe. It would undermine its standing in the world.” *) Pakistan foils BLA terror attack on naval air station in Balochistan Pakistani security forces have foiled a late-night attack on a naval air station in southwestern Balochistan, according to officials. Four to six heavily armed militants tried to enter PNS Siddiq in Turbat district last night. However, security forces “neutralised all the attackers” and no loss to any “sensitive equipment or casualties of our own troops” has so far been reported, a senior military official told Anadolu Agency. There was no official statement from the military. *) Haiti delegates squabble over choosing leader as gang violence escalates Efforts to form a transitional government and fill a power vacuum in violence-torn Haiti have failed as delegates bickered over the choice of a leader and death threats prompted one member to quit over the weekend. After Prime Minister Ariel Henry resigned, the body, supported by the United Nations and regional bloc CARICOM, among others, is still struggling to come into shape two weeks after Henry's March 11 announcement. Meetings were held over the weekend and on Monday, with a virtual summit between the delegates and CARICOM scheduled, the members of the Council are expected to try to elect a leader. *) EU launches probe of Apple, Google, Meta compliance with new digital law The EU has hit Apple, Google parent Alphabet and Meta with the first-ever probes under a mammoth digital law, which could lead to big fines against the US giants. Among six firms named as market “gatekeepers” under the EU's landmark Digital Markets Act — along with Amazon, TikTok owner ByteDance and Microsoft — the companies have been obliged to comply with the new law since March 7. Under the new rules, the commission can impose fines of up to 10 percent of a company's total global turnover. This can rise to up to 20 percent for repeat offenders. In extreme circumstances, the EU can order the break up of companies.

Antony Blinken plays the blues while Danny and Derek bring you the news. This week: in Gaza, famine sets in (0:29), U.S.-Israel tensions rise over a potential Rafah invasion (3:52), and more; Pakistan conducts airstrikes in Afghanistan (12:11); Indonesia's general election results are confirmed (14:37); the DPRK/North Korea tests a hypersonic missile engine (17:28); there's new evidence of coral bleaching in Australia's Great Barrier Reef (19:15); a Sudan humanitarian update (20:55); Niger's junta government kicks out U.S. forces (23:00); Vladimir Putin wins reelection in Russia (26:42); Ukraine strikes targets in Russia and is debating a new conscription bill (27:52); the EU debates using Russian assets to support Ukraine* (32:52); the Colombian government is in peace talks with the Clan Del Golfo (Gulf Clan) (35:41); an update on CARICOM's transition plan for Haiti (37:26); and a new study finds no evidence of brain damage from Havana Syndrome (40:02).*Note: After the time of recording, the EU came to a preliminary agreement on a plan to use Russian assets. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.americanprestigepod.com/subscribe

On this episode of American Prestige, Antony Blinken plays the blues while Danny and Derek bring you the news. This week: in Gaza, famine sets in (0:29), U.S.-Israel tensions rise over a potential Rafah invasion (3:52), and more; Pakistan conducts airstrikes in Afghanistan (12:11); Indonesia's general election results are confirmed (14:37); the DPRK/North Korea tests a hypersonic missile engine (17:28); there's new evidence of coral bleaching in Australia's Great Barrier Reef (19:15); a Sudan humanitarian update (20:55); Niger's junta government kicks out U.S. forces (23:00); Vladimir Putin wins reelection in Russia (26:42); Ukraine strikes targets in Russia and is debating a new conscription bill (27:52); the EU debates using Russian assets to support Ukraine* (32:52); the Colombian government is in peace talks with the Clan Del Golfo (Gulf Clan) (35:41); an update on CARICOM's transition plan for Haiti (37:26); and a new study finds no evidence of brain damage from Havana Syndrome (40:02).Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Le Conseil présidentiel de transition devrait être formé aujourd'hui, un Conseil légèrement différent de celui qui avait été imaginé car un parti politique signataire de l'accord trouvé sous l'égide de la Caricom le rejette. Les autres ont désigné leurs représentants et devraient bientôt reprendre les tractations pour désigner le dirigeant de la transition, alors que la crise sécuritaire et humanitaire s'aggrave. Le célèbre écrivain Gary Victor, dont le dernier ouvrage Le violon d'Adrien est paru aux éditions Mémoire d'encrier, est notre invité. « Il semble que la communauté internationale veuille imposer un véritable calvaire à Haïti. Même un cartel de trois membres dans une mairie ne peut pas fonctionner, alors sept membres du Conseil présidentiel ! Faudra-t-il sept cortèges présidentiels, sept appareils de sécurité, sept salaires, sept privilèges différents ? s'interroge l'auteur, nous sommes vraiment dubitatifs devant cette situation qui n'a aucun sens sauf peut-être à distribuer des postes à des politiciens qui savent n'avoir aucune chance à des élections. Ils n'ont aucun crédit à l'intérieur de ce pays. »L'écrivain Gary Victor estime que la communauté internationale reproduit les mêmes erreurs que par le passé. « Je me demande comment après tout le temps passé en Haïti, la communauté internationale ne comprend pas ce qui se passe. Les Nations unies sont restées plus de dix ans en Haïti, elles n'ont rien foutu. Les bandits ont prospéré, le trafic d'armes a prospéré, le trafic de drogue a prospéré… et une fois que l'ONU a quitté le territoire, tout a explosé. » L'auteur haïtien résume « on n'a pas l'impression que la communauté internationale est notre amie puisqu'elle favorise une solution totalement aberrante alors que constitutionnellement on pourrait aller très vite avec une solution déjà prévue, en faisant appel à un juge de la Cour de cassation. »Le « chenal du cancer » à Houston, TexasLe port de Houston est le plus important des États-Unis, de nombreuses usines pétrochimiques y sont également installées et les conséquences environnementales commencent à peser lourd. Accidents industriels, maladies comme les cancers ou l'asthme… notre correspondant a constaté que  les habitants manifestent de plus en plus leur colère face aux bilans de sécurité désastreux d'entreprises locales.Le journal de la 1èreL'artiste martiniquaise Perle Lama dénonce publiquement le « revenge porn ».

Haiti's crisis of gang violence and political dysfunction has been spiraling out of control. The number of reported homicides more than doubled last year to almost 4,800, and kidnappings soared to almost 2,500 cases. Sexual violence is rampant, and 313,000 Haitians have fled their homes.In recent weeks, the crisis has reached new heights. While de facto Prime Minister Ariel Henry was out of the country, the gangs took advantage and rampaged across the capital, Port-au-Prince. According to the United Nations, since the start of the year, the gangs have killed over 1,100 people and injured nearly 700 others. As the gangs roam freely, the United States and Caribbean countries – in a bloc called CARICOM – are trying to mediate a solution. The result thus far – though still unfolding – is that Henry has agreed to resign as soon as a transitional council of possibly 9 members is formed and an interim prime minister is chosen. But many questions remain about how that council and the interim prime minister will be appointed, which segments of Haitian society will be represented on it, and how a potential Kenyan-led international policing mission might go forward.Where does Haiti go from here?Joining the show to discuss the security situation in Haiti, and how policymakers in the region and around the world are addressing it, are Rosy Auguste Ducéna and Beatrice Lindstrom. Rosy is a human rights lawyer and Program Manager for the National Network for the Defense of Human Rights (RNDDH) in Haiti and has testified before the U.S. Congress. Bea is a Clinical Instructor and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School's International Human Rights Clinic. Prior to joining Harvard, she was the Legal Director of the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti, which works to bring Haitian grassroots struggles for human rights to the international stage. Show Notes: Rosy Auguste Ducéna (@AugusteRosy)Beatrice Lindstrom (@BeaLindstrom)Viola Gienger (@ViolaGienger) Paras Shah (@pshah518)Bea's Just Security article “With Haiti on the Brink of Collapse, a Reckoning for US Policy on Haiti”Just Security's Haiti coverageJust Security's U.N. Security Council coverageMusic: “The Parade” by “Hey Pluto!” from Uppbeat: https://uppbeat.io/t/hey-pluto/the-parade (License code: 36B6ODD7Y6ODZ3BX)Music: “Broken” by David Bullard from Uppbeat: https://uppbeat.io/t/david-bullard/broken (License code: OSC7K3LCPSGXISVI)

In this episode of Hold Your Fire!, Richard is joined by Crisis Group Haiti expert Diego Da Rin and deputy Latin America and Caribbean director Renata Segura to discuss the latest wave of gang violence engulfing Haiti. They look at the recent attempt by gangs, who already controlled perhaps 80 per cent of the capital Port-au-Prince, to overrun the airport, ports, government buildings and other critical infrastructure and their attacks on jails that freed thousands of inmates. They look at a new pact between previously warring gangs, seemingly motivated by their determination to deter foreign forces arriving, and the aspirations of gang leaders, notably Jimmy “Barbeque” Cherizier. They talk about the worsening humanitarian crisis, as water, food and fuel become harder to access. They discuss whether Prime Minister Ariel Henry's resignation, a new presidential council and efforts by the Caribbean's regional bloc CARICOM to mediate among Haiti's politicians can turn a page on years of tumult. They also assess how a Kenya-led multinational force can help loosen gangs' grip on the capital and what role diplomacy with gang leaders can play in reducing violence. For more in-depth analysis of the topics discussed in this episode, check out our briefing Haiti's Gangs: Can a Foreign Mission Break Their Stranglehold? and our Haiti country page. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Good afternoon, I'm _____ with today's episode of EZ News. Tai-Ex opening The Tai-Ex opened down 92-points this morning from yesterday's close, at 19,845 on turnover of $9.6-billion N-T. Shares in Taiwan inched up Thursday to close at a new high, after recovering from early losses in the bellwether electronics sector, even as sentiment remained cautious ahead of the United States' release of its February producer price index later in the day. The financial sector was the main anchor, helping to stabilize the market as some financial firms offered attractive dividend policies, and buying also rotated to some old economy stocks, giving the main board additional support. Decision on carbon fee rates could be delayed: Minister Minister of the Environment Shieu Fuh-sheng says a decision on carbon fee rates (費率) by a review committee may be delayed. Shieu announced in February that a decision on the rates would be made by the end of March, but now says there were now "no guarantees" due to changes to the "wider environment." The minister cited the expected raising of electricity rates in Taiwan in April, and difficulties in Taiwan's petrochemical industry as factors. Many Taiwanese companies in the petrochemical industry are included in the 550 big emitters emitting more than 25,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide a year that are to be charged carbon fees by the government. Shieu says the review committee is meeting for the first time today, and will not yet have any final decisions. Nigerian School Children Kidnappers Demand Ransom Gunmen who kidnapped about 300 school children in Nigeria's Kaduna state last week are demanding a ransom (贖金) for their release. Tesem Akende reports. Haiti Presidential Council Plans Moving Forward Caribbean officials say a plan to create a transitional presidential council is moving forward after a majority of Haitian parties and coalitions submitted the names of those charged with finding new leaders for the country. Officials said Thursday that the names were provided to a regional trade bloc known as Caricom that is helping lead the transition. The names were submitted a day after Haitian politicians and influential figures bickered (爭吵) publicly about the plan and what names to submit, seemingly putting creation of the council at risk. Prime Minister Ariel Henry pledged to resign once the council is created. UK Court Rules Against Claim to Cryptocurrency Fame Britain's high court has ruled that an Australian computer scientist is not, as he claimed, the mysterious creator of the bitcoin cryptocurrency. Craig Wright has for eight years claimed that he was the man behind “Satoshi Nakamoto,” the pseudonym that masked the identity of the creator of bitcoin. His claim was dismissed Thursday following a trial brought forward by the Crypto Open Patent Alliance, a non-profit group of technology and cryptocurrency firms. The organization claimed Wright had created an “elaborate (詳盡的，複雜的) false narrative” and forged documents to suggest he was Satoshi and had “terrorized” those who questioned him. Wright, who attended the start of the five-week trial, denied the allegations. That was the I.C.R.T. news, Check in again tomorrow for our simplified version of the news, uploaded every day in the afternoon. Enjoy the rest of your day, I'm _____. －－－－以下訊息由 SoundOn 動態廣告贊助商提供－－－－ 您是否聽過孩子抱怨：數學好無聊！數學好難！ 學數學真的只能是一直寫寫寫，不斷加減乘除嗎？ 提供孩子學習數學的新可能！《兒童數學動畫課》 把數學變得好玩、好看又好用！ 輸入 CW150 再享專屬折扣～ 馬上點擊下方連結吧！ https://cplink.co/e71OXAa6

Salve, salve, Cacdista! Veja os destaques do Resumo de Notícias da semana (8 a 15 de março): - Haiti: sob mediação da CARICOM, premiê Ariel Henry renuncia ao cargo; - Corte IDH: Brasil é condenado por ação policial na Operação Castelinho; - Venezuela X Argentina: Venezuela fecha espaço aéreo para voos da Argentina, a quem acusa de “roubar” avião; - Portugal: eleições dão vitória a coalizão de centro-direita; - IA: União Europeia aprova regulação de inteligência artificial; - IKI: Alemanha e Brasil reforçam cooperação em temas ambientais.

Les partis ont désormais dépassé le délai fixé par la Caricom pour désigner leurs représentants au Conseil présidentiel de transition, et les discussions se poursuivent. « Il faut du temps aux partis, d'autant plus que mis à part Lavalas et Pitit Dessalines, les autres structures sont des regroupements de partis et associations, explique Frantz Duval, rédacteur en chef du quotidien Le Nouvelliste, certains évoquent leurs désaccords publiquement, d'autres manœuvrent en coulisses. » Certains partis sont fixés, mais d'autres n'ont pas communiqué et Pitit Dessalines a fait savoir qu'il rejetait ce conseil présidentiel de transition. L'un des points les plus délicats est l'obligation faite aux partis politiques membres du conseil d'approuver la mission multinationale devant être déployée sous l'égide du Kenya. « C'est de la gymnastique politique qui est faite en ce moment à Port-au-Prince », ajoute le journaliste. Les habitants de Port-au-Prince rencontrés par notre correspondante sont sceptiques : « on sait qu'il est déjà difficile pour un président et un Premier ministre de cohabiter donc pour un conseil de sept membres aussi. Je me demande par quel mécanisme ils vont prendre des décisions ? Si un des membres décide de démissionner, qu'adviendra-t-il de ce conseil ? Il y a beaucoup de flou, selon moi. » La culture de la noix du Brésil pour préserver la forêtLa noix du Brésil, qui est cultivée aussi au Pérou contrairement à ce que son nom indique, est récoltée de manière traditionnelle sur des arbres très anciens, souvent dans le cadre de projets de conservation car les noix du Brésil ont besoin d'une forêt en bonne santé pour pousser. Notre correspondante s'est rendue dans la seule région productrice dans le pays, la région de Madre de Dios. Le journal de la 1èreLes producteurs de bananes de Martinique attendent des actes concrets de la part du gouvernement.

En el análisis del politólogo Joseph Harold, la respuesta propuesta por la comunidad internacional para Haití no será óptima porque se estaría debilitando a la administración pública, ya que no se les dan los recursos para poder salir de la crisis humanitaria, entre otras razones. Además, señala que, aunque se necesita una intervención en el país para recuperar la seguridad, no se tiene la fuerza política para exigir a los soldados que la misión se cumpla.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Finalmente y ante la presión de la comunidad internacional, el primer ministro de Haití presentó su renuncia. Fue en Jamaica durante una reunión del CARICOM y tras el crecimiento de la violencia a manos de las bandas criminales en el país caribeño.AMLO anunció que el policía culpable de asesinar a Yanqui Kothan, el normalista de Ayotzinapa de 23 años, se dio a la fuga. Esto generó la indignación de estudiantes y padres que se manifestaron contra la Fiscalía estatal.Además… El periodista mexicano Jaime Barrera Rodríguez desapareció el lunes tras salir de su trabajo en Guadalajara, la Fiscalía estatal cree que fue secuestrado al salir de la radio; los reyes de Suecia realizan una visita de estado en México donde esperan reunirse con AMLO, visitar a la UNAM y al Palacio de Bellas Artes con el objetivo de fortalecer el vínculo entre ambas naciones; China Southern, la aerolínea más grande del Dragón Asiático, anunció que desde abril ofrecerá su primer vuelo directo de la ciudad industrial de Shenzhen a la capital mexicana; y el polémico influencer Andrew Tate y su hermano fueron arrestados por las autoridades de Rumania por órdenes del Reino Unido relacionadas con delitos sexuales y explotación de personas. Y para #ElVasoMedioLleno… Un procedimiento médico de emergencia en el Zoológico de Houston hizo que un saltamonte peruano hembra recibiera una gran atención. Con un ingenioso dispositivo, una entomóloga curó al insecto que presentaba complicaciones al mudar su exoesqueleto.Para enterarte de más noticias como estas, síguenos en nuestras redes sociales. Estamos en todas las plataformas como @telokwento. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Les partis politiques poursuivent leurs discussions pour désigner leurs représentants au sein du Conseil présidentiel de transition, instance chargée de prendre la suite d'Ariel Henry, démissionnaire, et de mener le pays à des élections libres et démocratiques. La presse fait état de négociations parfois laborieuses. « Ce collège est un pas vers une résolution partielle de la crise en Haïti, estime Gédéon Jean, directeur exécutif du CARDH, car cette formule reflète les grandes tendances politiques issues des propositions reçues par la Caricom. » Le défenseur des droits de l'homme dispose d'informations laissant croire que les représentants de chaque parti ou mouvement seront bien désignés dans les délais impartis, c'est-à-dire d'ici à ce soir.La presse rappelle elle aussi qu'il faudra d'autres mesures pour améliorer la situation. Le National écrit par exemple « L'opposition, elle, s'échine désormais à trouver des représentants pour un Conseil présidentiel encore improbable. La Communauté internationale se perd dans des rencontres interminables. La seule certitude se trouve désormais dans l'incertain. Car, ceux qui savent faire parler la poudre, ils ne s'arrêteront pas de si tôt. » Gédéon Jean confirme « le chaos se poursuit : les institutions publiques ne fonctionnent pas, les produits de première nécessité et médicaments sont rares, de nombreux hôpitaux restent fermés et le pays n'est pas dirigé puisque le Premier ministre et plusieurs ministres sont à l'étranger en ce moment. » Quel rôle pour les gangs ?La capitale vit toujours sous le joug des groupes criminels dont certains ont rejeté l'accord trouvé au début de la semaine sous l'égide de la Caricom. « Les gangs, via Jimmy Chérizier, le porte-parole du G9 et de la coalition Viv Ansanm, étaient clairs et voulaient participer à une solution politique, rappelle le directeur exécutif du CARDH. Nous pensons que c'est très dangereux et que la Communauté internationale comme les acteurs locaux doivent faire très attention dans ce contexte où les gangs émergent comme une force. Va-t-on les accepter comme un acteur ou va-t-on donner les moyens nécessaires à l'État pour les contenir ? C'est une question de choix. » Gédéon Jean estime qu'il faut mettre en place une force capable de faire face aux gangs. Quel plan B après la suspension de la mission multinationale kenyane ?L'annonce de Nairobi « nous a surpris, reconnaît Gédéon Jean, puisqu'ils étaient dans un processus assez intéressant malgré un problème de financement. Cela complique encore la situation. Peut-être faut-il une solution intermédiaire ? » Solution évoquée par l'ancien ambassadeur canadien Henri-Paul Normandin, il rappelle qu'après « la chute du régime Aristide, une force intérimaire de Marines américains, de Canadiens et de Français a pavé la voie à la mission des Nations unies. » Le directeur exécutif du CARDH approuve, rappelant que les Haïtiens ont un besoin urgent d'aide pour rétablir la sécurité à Port-au-Prince.

Ariel Henry est sorti de son silence, la nuit dernière, pour confirmer ce que l'organisation régionale Caricom avait déjà annoncé : la démission du Premier ministre et la mise en place d'un Conseil présidentiel de transition, composé de sept membres représentant les différents partis politiques, ainsi que de deux observateurs de la société civile et du secteur religieux. La décision a été prise lors d'une réunion de la Caricom, à laquelle assistait également le secrétaire d'État américain. « Nous soutenons le projet de création d'un collège présidentiel large, inclusif et indépendant qui prendrait d'abord des mesures concrètes pour répondre aux besoins immédiats du peuple haïtien, a déclaré Antony Blinken, deuxièmement qui permettrait le déploiement rapide de la mission multinationale de sécurité et troisièmement, grâce à ce déploiement et au renforcement de la police haïtienne, qui pourrait créer les conditions de sécurité nécessaires pour organiser des élections libres et équitables, permettre à l'aide humanitaire d'atteindre les personnes qui en ont besoin et remettre Haïti sur la voie du progrès économique et de la croissance. » La démission était attendue, « réclamée par une bonne partie de la population, explique Gotson Pierre, directeur de l'agence Alterpresse, les gangs aussi réclamaient la démission d'Ariel Henry, sans compter les pressions internationales… on savait que ça ne pouvait pas durer. » Les gangs maintiennent la pression sur plusieurs sites stratégiques de Port-au-Prince, « capitale qui offre l'image d'un champ de bataille dans plusieurs quartiers. » Les différents partis politiques vont maintenant devoir s'accorder sur les noms de leurs représentants et surtout pour désigner un dirigeant, chargé de mener le pays vers des élections sous la houlette des États-Unis « qui mènent la danse », rappelle Frédéric Thomas, chargé d'études au CETRI en Belgique. La souveraineté d'Haïti « avait déjà été largement confisquée, analyse le chercheur, notamment par Ariel Henry qui rendait plus compte à la Maison Blanche qu'à la population haïtienne, parce qu'il savait que c'est de là qu'il détenait le pouvoir. » Frédéric Thomas rappelle que la « fragmentation » des partis politiques et le fait qu'ils soient souvent « des coquilles vides autour d'une personne, sans véritable programme politique » ne facilite pas la construction d'un consensus national. Il souligne que la recherche nécessaire de ce consensus ne doit pas servir de prétexte pour assurer l'impunité des gangs. 

L'organisation régionale Caricom réunit aujourd'hui les partis politiques haïtiens, qui n'ont pas réussi à soumettre une proposition d'accord et arrivent en ordre dispersé à la Jamaïque, pour une réunion en présence des pays dits amis d'Haïti comme la France, le Canada et les Etats-Unis. Le Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU réclame des « négociations » afin de « rétablir la démocratie » en Haïti. Tous les yeux sont donc tournés vers la Jamaïque où les partis politiques haïtiens vont devoir se mettre d'accord sur une transition pour succéder au Premier ministre Ariel Henry, toujours bloqué à l'extérieur du pays. Contrairement à ce qu'avait demandé l'organisation régionale Caricom, plusieurs propositions ont été transmises en amont de la réunion et non pas une seule. Les partis n'arrivent pas à s'accorder sur les noms de ceux qui doivent participer à l'équipe de transition.Pendant ce temps, Port-au-Prince sombre chaque jour dans le chaos. Les gangs multiplient les attaques contre des sites stratégiques, parfois repoussés par la police. Les habitants s'organisent comme ils peuvent, misant sur les barricades installées à l'entrée de certains quartiers, comme l'a constaté notre correspondante, mais si ces barricades apportent un sentiment de sécurité à certains, elles sont aussi critiquées car elles entravent encore un peu plus la liberté de circulation des résidents de la capitale. Les opposants au régime d'Ortega s'organisent en exilAlors que le président étouffe toutes les voix dissidentes au Nicaragua, que plus de 200 prisonniers politiques ont été expulsés et déchus de leur nationalité l'année dernière (2023), certains opposants tentent de se rassembler à l'étranger. Rencontre avec deux exilés, l'écrivaine Monica Baltodano qui mise sur la gauche pour organiser l'opposition et déconstruire le « discours mensonger » de Daniel Ortega, et le politologue Julio Lopez qui rappelle la capacité du peuple à se soulever comme cela avait été le cas en 2018 : « nombreux pensaient que la jeunesse ne s'intéressait pas à la politique et deux mois plus tard, nous avons connu le soulèvement le plus important de l'histoire du Nicaragua. Un soulèvement prodigieux, massif qui montre ce dont le peuple est capable. Plus il est silencieux, plus il est dangereux. » Le journal de la 1èreLa campagne sucrière pourrait ne pas avoir lieu en Guadeloupe.

Question: Given the chaos in Haiti, is a Haitian-Led Solution Possible? If it is, will it succeed? Recently, Renaldo McKenzie, Creator and Host of The NeoLiberal Round Podcast and YouTube Channel, and Senior Editor of The NeoLiberal Journals interviewed Fr. Hyvenson Josephs, a Haitian American, scholar, Episcopal Priest and Professor to discuss the latest situation in Haiti. The interview was revealing and breaking providing commentary and new details about the situation in Haiti. 1. Dr. Ariel Henry is now in Puerto Rico after being denied entry into the Dominica Republic enroute to Haiti. Dr. Ariel the Installed Prime Minister of Haiti, who is currently exile from the country, was in Nairobi Kenya signing a Treaty to allow for bilateral relations between the two countries. The treaty was needed to satisfy Kenya's courts over ruling and objecting to the request for Kenya to send a peace keeping force to Haiti. The treaty was signed and as such would provide the greenlight allowing Kenya to send the force. However, it is not clear as to whether the treaty was legal and constitutional as Dr. Ariel Henry's authority to sign such a treaty violates Haitian law and constitution since he was installed and not elected and not the President of Haiti. Moreover, Dr. Ariel Henry was asked not to return to Haiti by the gangs and the police who are closely monitoring the ports of entry for Henry's arrival. It is interesting to point out that the police and gangs are not working together, yet, they both have taken over the airports and oppose to the return of Dr. Henry. 2. Dr. Ariel Henry was asked to step down by the US Department of State and is set to travel to Jamaica where he will announce his resignation. What is perplexing is that while in power, Ariel was unpopular among majority of the Haitian peoples who have asked him to step down. yet he held onto power for a long time since his installment by the gang of 4 including France, Canada, US, and to a lesser degree UK and Brazil. It was not until foreigners asked him to resign that he relented, but refused the protestations of his own people. This suggests that even Ariel rejected Haiti's own independence, sovereignty and democracy, appealing to the external rather than the internal. 3. CARICOM heads are meeting with a select group of Haitian ministers to discuss a way forward. 4. Haiti is still in a State-of-Emergency as over 98 % of prisoners, from three of the major prisons representing over 80% of all prisoners, remain at large with no solution in sight. It is not clear if the criminals will make their way to other countries given the millions of migrants who are crossing various borders in the Americas today. Question: given the chaos, is a Haitian-led solution possible and if it is will it succeed? Listen or watch the full episode interview on #theneoliberalround podcast and YouTube Channel. Read it in The NeoLiberal Journals at theneoliberal.com Subscribe for free on any stream and donate to us at: anchor.fm/theneoliberal/support. Visit us at theneoliberal.com We are serving the world today to solve tomorrow's challenges by making popular what was the monopoly. Renaldo McKenzie is an Adjunct Professor at Jamaica Theological Seminary, a Graduate of the University of Penn, Doctoral candidate at Georgetown University and Author of Noliberalism... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theneoliberal/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theneoliberal/support

(Full Episode) Breaking News and Update on the Haitian Crisis: We interviewed Fr. Hyvenson Josephs, an Episcopalian Priest, Professor and Haitian American, on the situation in Haiti. The dialogue was quite revealing going deeper into the crisis and providing updates and clarification on the news surrounding the #prisonbreak and #arielhenry exile and some recent developments on the Gangs and the Police taking over the airports to prevent the Installed Prime Minister Dr. Ariel Henri returning to the island. Moreover, Fr. Joseph corrected earlier reports that 80 % of prisoners had escaped; indicating that 98 % of the prisoners escaped from three of the largest state prisons with criminals on death row and or those charged with the assassination of the then PM Jovenelle Moise in 2023. Furthermore, Fr. Hyvenson reported that the country is still in a state of emergency which we thought may be termed chaos; as the PM is now in Puerto Rico after being denied entry into DR. He was then asked by the US Department of State to step down which he plans to do when he travels to Jamaica where he is hoping to get the protection of the Jamaicans. In the meantime, Fr. Josephs reports that CARICOM is meeting with a select committee of Haitian Ministers to discuss a way forward. The prisoners remain at large with no plans to recapture them, while the police and the chief relationship sour over accusations of collusion with the gangs. The gangs had boldly announced that they were going to free the prisoners which they did. Watch the full episode for more breaking news updates and reports on #theneoliberalround #podcast on #haiti Read the full article later in theneoliberal.com. We will continue to monitor these developments. The NeoLiberal Corporation, serving the world today to solve tomorrow's challenges by making popular what was the monopoly. Visit us at https://theneoliberal.com Support us https://anchor.fm/theneoliberal/support Renaldo McKenzie is the Creator and Host and the author of Neoliberalism --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theneoliberal/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theneoliberal/support

Les activités reprennent timidement dans plusieurs quartiers de Port-au-Prince. Le bas de la ville est « totalement mort et abandonné par les commerces et l'administration publique », commente Frantz Duval, rédacteur en chef du Nouvelliste, « mais le haut de Port-au-Prince fonctionne encore. » Dans le haut de la capitale, « des entreprises et les transports publics fonctionnent, les banques sont ouvertes mais c'est très prudent, rapporte Frantz Duval, on ne reste pas dehors toute la journée, on rentre vite chez soi. » Ailleurs dans le pays, malgré une tentative de mutinerie dans la prison de Jacmel, la situation est meilleure. « Ce sont comme deux pays : les villes de provinces sont calmes, ça vit. Mais à Port-au-Prince, c'est très timide et on attend de voir ce que décidera le gouvernement, ou du moins ce qu'il en reste. » L'avenir d'Ariel Henry toujours incertainLa journée de mardi (5 mars 2024) a été marquée par des annonces contradictoires sur des pressions américaines pour une démission du Premier ministre haïtien. Le Département d'État a démenti, en évoquant une « structure gouvernementale autonome et inclusive ». Les États-Unis seraient en fait prêts à ce qu'Ariel Henry reste en poste jusqu'à la création d'un conseil de transition, « mais c'est un concept que personne ne comprend en Haïti parce que ce n'était pas à l'ordre du jour, commente le journaliste Frantz Duval, quelque chose se passe mais les Haïtiens n'ont pas le contrôle. Et rien n'est solide. » Quant aux partis politiques haïtiens, ils peinent à se faire entendre confrontés à deux pièges selon le journaliste : « ils n'ont jamais pu constituer une alternative à Ariel Henry et aujourd'hui qu'il est peut-être au bord du précipice, les partis politiques formels n'ont toujours pas de solution et l'autre piège, renverser Ariel Henry aujourd'hui c'est quasiment dire que le pouvoir revient aux gangs qui l'ont renversé. » Des gangs organisés et unisL'éruption de violences la semaine dernière est un mélange de planification et d'opportunisme, estime Romain Le Cour Grandmaison, chercheur à l'organisation Global initiative, « les attaques étaient menées par une partie de la coalition que l'on appelle G-pèp de façon simultanée dans plusieurs points de la ville. Des attaques très violentes qui demandent un degré de planification, d'organisation et de coordinations fort. » Le chercheur estime qu'une « deuxième séquence » a commencé ensuite, au moment où Ariel Henry, à l'issue du sommet de la Caricom, a annoncé des élections au mois d'août 2025. « À partir de ce moment-là, je pense qu'il y a une forme d'opportunisme de la part d'autres groupes criminels qui étaient en perte de vitesse et qui voient dans les attaques une manière de revenir sur le devant de la scène. Et ensuite malheureusement, une forme de convergence d'intérêts forte entre une partie de soutiens des gangs au sein de différentes structures politiques et économiques, en Haïti et à l'étranger, qui voient une occasion de faire partir Ariel Henry. » À qui profiterait la chute du gouvernement ?Les gangs sont aujourd'hui plus autonomes qu'il y a quelques années, ils ont acquis un pouvoir financier et un pouvoir territorial très fort, mais Romain Le Cour Grandmaison rappelle qu'ils ne sont pas totalement autonomes. « Ce qui se joue là, c'est peut-être la chute du gouvernement Henry mais je ne crois pas que les gangs prendront le pouvoir pour eux-mêmes. » Exception faite peut-être de Jimmy Chérizier, puissant chef de gang qui se présente sur les réseaux sociaux comme une alternative politique et menace d'une guerre civile dans le cas où Ariel Henry ne démissionnerait pas. L'ancien policier est en train de prendre « une place absolument prépondérante dans le paysage médiatique et politique, en Haïti et à l'étranger, peut-être plus à l'international d'ailleurs. » Le chercheur à Global initiative rappelle que Jimmy Chérizier « utilise très bien les réseaux sociaux et les médias traditionnels, avec un petit risque notamment de la part des médias internationaux, d'en faire une figure révolutionnaire. Je pense qu'il faut faire un effort de recontextualisation, de ce qu'il fait, de ce qu'est son leadership et ne pas prendre ses mots comme une vérité absolue. » Néanmoins, Romain Le Cour Grandmaison estime qu'il deviendra un « acteur incontournable » de la transition et du futur politique d'Haïti, parmi de nombreux autres acteurs.   Les gangs, créature incontrôlée ?Pendant des décennies, les responsables politiques ont instrumentalisé les groupes criminels mais semblent aujourd'hui dépassés par ces mêmes groupes. « C'est la partie la plus difficile à saisir et à documenter, commente le chercheur, en Haïti on part du principe que les gangs ont toujours des liens forts avec les pouvoirs économiques et politiques du pays. Je pense que la meilleure façon de le voir, c'est une relation très instable entre des groupes criminels et des soutiens politiques et économiques en Haïti et à l'extérieur avec des négociations permanentes, quasi quotidiennes. Et évidemment, dans cette relation-là, les gangs ont une marge de manœuvre et une stratégie propre. » Avec pour conséquences, des alliances pouvant évoluer.

Salve, salve, Cacdista! Veja os destaques do Resumo de Notícias da semana (23 de fevereiro a 1º de março): - OTAN: Suécia supera último obstáculo para sua adesão à aliança militar; - CARICOM: presidente Lula participa como convidado da Cúpula de Comunidade do Caribe, na Guiana; - G20: ministros das Finanças e presidentes dos bancos centrais se reúnem em São Paulo para discutir Trilha de Finanças; - OMC: as negociações da 13ª Conferência Ministerial da Organização Mundial do Comércio; - UNEA-6: Nairóbi, no Quênia, é anfitriã da 6ª Assembleia das Nações Unidas do Meio Ambiente; - Egito: país estabelece parceria estratégica com Brasil no marco de 100 anos de relações diplomáticas.

O presidente Lula está na Guiana, onde participa de reuniões com líderes de países do Caribe. Os enviados especiais Guilherme Mendes e Danilo Kaufman acompanham a visita. O presidente chegou a capital, Georgetown, no início da tarde desta quarta (28). Lula foi direto para o centro de convenções onde participa como convidado de honra da Caricom - a Conferência de Chefes de Governo da Comunidade do Caribe. Veja também nesta edição do JR 24 Horas: No Rio de Janeiro, operação da Polícia Civil e do Ministério Público tem como alvos empresas suspeitas de lavar dinheiro para a maior milícia do estado.

Le Premier ministre haïtien est attendu cette semaine au Kenya, afin de signer « l'accord de réciprocité » avec Nairobi et permettre le déploiement de la Mission multinationale d'appui à la sécurité. La question est aussi au cœur aujourd'hui d'une réunion de la Caricom et il y a urgence car la violence des gangs fait chaque jour de nouvelles victimes et de nouveaux déplacés. Plus de 346 000 personnes selon des chiffres à paraître de l'Organisation internationale des migrations, « autant de vies brisées, de meurtres, d'assassinats, de viols », rapporte le chef de mission de l'OIM en Haïti. « La situation est bien pire aujourd'hui, ajoute Philippe Branchat, du fait de la violence nouvelle depuis novembre et de la situation d'enfermement que connaît la population de Port-au-Prince actuellement. » La plupart des déplacés se retrouvent « enfermés dans des situations insalubres, dans des sites qui sont très loin de pouvoir recevoir les populations en résidence sur de longues périodes. » La situation empire à chaque attaque de gang, qui peut « faire venir dans la nuit 1 000 personnes sur un site déjà saturé », explique le chef de mission de l'OIM.« On parle de résilience, je parlerais surtout de survie »L'an dernier, ajoute-t-il, trois déplacés sur quatre trouvaient refuge dans une famille d'accueil. Aujourd'hui, c'est l'inverse. Et même lorsque les déplacés peuvent être hébergés chez des proches, ils doivent se rendre au travail donc « entrer et sortir du quartier, or avec la mise en place de milices et de grilles, de murs, déplore Philippe Branchat, la liberté dont vous pouviez jouir s'est vue contrainte. Dans l'enfermement, il y a encore de l'enfermement. »  À cela, s'ajoute un autre problème : de nombreuses écoles notamment servent d'abris, au détriment de l'éducation. Les cours sont suspendus pour de très nombreux enfants. Grèves en série en ArgentinePour la quatrième fois en moins d'une semaine, l'Argentine est confrontée à un mouvement social. Après les cheminots, les salariés des hôpitaux et la fonction publique, les enseignants sont en grève ce lundi 26 février 2024. Ils protestent contre l'inflation qui a augmenté de 50% ces deux derniers mois et exigent le rétablissement d'un fonds de soutien aux salaires, supprimé par le nouveau président Javier Milei. Notre correspondant s'est rendu à Cordoba, deuxième ville du pays et largement favorable au chef de l'État qui y a recueilli 75% des voix à la présidentielle. Beaucoup souffrent de la suppression de subventions sur les transports en commun, du prix des loyers ou des produits alimentaires… mais maintiennent leur soutien à Javier Milei, pour l'instant. Le journal de la 1èreAprès un mois de conflit, les employés municipaux reprennent le travail à Cayenne.

“Time for an Awakening” with Bro.Elliott & Bro.Richard, Sunday 1/28/2024 at 7:00 PM (EST) our guests was Educator, Activist, Organizer, President of the Afrodescendant Nation, Dr. Akilah Mukarram, Activist, Organizer, Chairman of the Guyana Reparations Committee, Vice-Chair of the CARICOM Reparations Commission, Eric Phillips. Our guest informed us about the National Plebiscite on Reparations, and the many Reparation group leaders, and formations that are working together to achieve our goal of full repair. Always conversations on issues and topics that affect Black People locally, nationally, and internationally.   NATIONAL PLEBISCITE (BALLOT-REFERENDUM) ON REPARATIONS https://forms.gle/ntZyMLktu4dm7bm18 Make a donation to the Afrodescendant Nation https://www.afrodescendant.org/donate Support The National Reparations Convention Fundraiser https://gofund.me/13b8a5d   

Celebrate with us as Strictly Facts hits a milestone 75th episode—our heartfelt thanks goes out to each one of you for embarking with us on this journey of enlightenment and shared knowledge. Today, we raise the curtain on the contentious and historic border dispute between Guyana and Venezuela, a saga with roots tangled deep in the colonial era and now fueled by the modern-day allure of oil. Through the lens of the December 2023 referendum and the extended history of The Guianas, we illuminate the myriad facets of this geopolitical struggle, highlighting the stakes for indigenous communities and the sovereignty of nations.Bringing context to the present, we analyze Guyana's strategic moves, including an appeal to the International Court of Justice and a call for US support, against the backdrop of Venezuela's territorial claims. Featuring insights from leaders like President Irfa Ali and regional bodies like CARICOM, we piece together a narrative that stretches beyond borders into the heart of Caribbean resilience. Join us as we untangle the complex interplay of history, diplomacy, and emerging oil interests in a Caribbean story that continues to shape the future of an entire region.Support the showConnect with Strictly Facts - Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn | Youtube Looking to read more about the topics covered in this episode? Subscribe to the newsletter at www.strictlyfactspod.com to get the Strictly Facts Syllabus to your email!Want to Support Strictly Facts? Rate the Show Leave a review on your favorite podcast platform Share this episode with someone who loves Caribbean history and culture Send us a DM or voice note to have your thoughts featured on an upcoming episode Share the episode on social media and tag us Donate to help us continue empowering listeners with Caribbean history and education Produced by Breadfruit Media

Joining us to delve into the details on Haiti and so much more, our guest this week is Dr Jemima Pierre, professor at the Institute for the Study of Gender, race, sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. You can find me and the show on social media by searching the handle @DrWilmerLeon on X (Twitter), Instagram, and YouTube. Our Facebook page is www.facebook.com/Drwilmerleonctd All our episodes can be found at CTDpodcast.com.   TRANSCRIPT: Speaker 1 (00:40): Connecting the dots with Dr. Wilmer Leon, where the analysis of politics, culture, and history converge. Dr Wilmer Leon (00:48): Welcome to the Connecting the Dots podcast with Dr. Wilmer Leon. I'm Wilmer Leon. Here's the point. We have a tendency to view current events as though they occur in a vacuum, failing to understand the broader historical context in which most events take place. During each episode of this podcast, my guests and I will have probing, provocative, and in-depth discussions that connect the dots between current events and the broader historical context in which the events occur. This will enable you to better understand and analyze the events that are impacting the global village in which we live on today's episode. The question before us is why is the United States working to reinve and colonize Haiti? My guest is a professor at the Institute for the Study of Gender, race, sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. She's a member of the Black Alliance for Peace and an editor of the Black Agenda Review segment of the Black Agenda Report. And she's the author of a very, very substantive piece, Haiti as Empire's Laboratory, Dr. Jamima Pierre. Dr. Pierre, welcome to the show and let's connect some dots. Dr Jemima Pierre (02:12): Thank you so much for having me. It's a pleasure to be here. Dr Wilmer Leon (02:15): You write in your piece that the Global Fragility Act presents new strategies for deploying us hard and soft power in a changing world. It focuses US foreign policy on the idea that there are so-called fragile states, countries prone to instability, extremism, conflict, and extreme poverty, which are presumably threats to US security. Explain first, what is the Global Fragility Act and why should Americans, not to mention its victims, be so concerned about it? Dr Jemima Pierre (02:52): Yes, so the Global Fragilities Act was actually presented in 2019, I think under Donald Trump, and then was ratified under the Biden administration. And it really is a way to be brand new as foreign policy. And I don't know if your listeners know about the Monroe Doctrine, which the US passed about a hundred years ago, which basically said that the US had access that no one can encroach in US' influence in the Western Hemisphere. And through the Monroe Doctrine, the US was able to assert its influence, occupy invade nations whenever it deemed necessary, and got away with it for a hundred years. And so the upheaval that we've seen throughout Latin America, the regime changes, the support for support for military dictatorships and so on and so forth has occurred through the Monroe Doctrine. But the Global Fragility Act was really brought by the conservative think tank, the US Peace Institute, which is actually misnamed as far as I'm concerned. (04:10) But it was really a way to look at US foreign policy in a different light or to rebrand it. And what I mean by rebrand is that to basically come together to make it seem like the US was not doing what it was doing, and it was basically bringing together the work of the Department of Defense, the Department of the State, and the U-S-A-I-D. So linking together aid defense as well as political state department moves. And the idea was basically an opportunity to change the way that the US did business to using local partners by not necessarily doing the dirty work of putting boots on the ground if it needed to invade a place. But it was really trying to figure out how to actually change the internal politics of a place to really prevent adversary. And they say in the ACT adversaries such as China and Russia from expanding their influence in this way, they use civil society, they use military, and then they use, so-called diplomacy bringing together. (05:19) But what's key to this, they also use local regional partners such as other states, other formations such as the Caribbean community and so on and so forth to actually assert US power. And so what's interesting about the Global Fragilities Act is that it was passed by Trump, but ratified under Biden and then was implemented. And at first they said they were going to focus on a set of countries, which Haiti being the very first. So what it is, so it's Haiti first and then Libya, Mozambique, Papua New Guinea, along with they call the coastal countries of West Africa. What's fascinating about this order is that Haiti and Libya are the states, two of the states besides Iraq that are probably most destroyed by the US and its allies. And it is going under the guise that these people are, that these states are so fragile, they're a mess, they're full of corruption and so on and so forth without really talking about the underlying problem, which is these states are fragile because of us constant interventions and us creating instability in this state. So I'll stop there to just give as a short background, Dr Wilmer Leon (06:42): One of the things that popped in my mind when you said Haiti and then you said Libya, one of the common threads between the two are the Clintons, because if I remember my history correctly, it was then Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton that convinced then President Obama, then President Barack Obama to invade Libya and assassinate more Mark dfi. And we know that Hillary Clinton, again, was very much involved in the destabilization, the most recent destabilization of Haiti. Dr Jemima Pierre (07:21): Oh, definitely. Well, the Clintons, they've got dirt all over them. I mean, when it comes to Haiti, the Clintons, I have a piece that I wrote a long time ago, about 11 years ago. I say the Clintons are omnipotent, omni, the present, they're everywhere. And so we have to think about what Bill Clinton did by killing Haiti's rice production facility by dumping the rise of his Arkansas farmers into Haiti and destroying Haiti's rise economy. So we have to think about what he did when he was president, but they've been dealing with Haiti for a long time. And we have to think also about after the earthquake where Obama put Clinton and Georgia re bush in charge of Haiti eight. And the people that benefited the most from the earthquake that killed 300,000 Haitians was the Clinton Foundation, which raised tons of money. And Haiti saw nothing except for these fancy hotels that they're making profits off. (08:17) So there's that. But what's most important is in 2011 during the So-called Arab Spring, Hillary Clinton flew to Haiti and changed the election results that actually put in power, the current political, so-called political party that's there now, Michelle Marli, who actually was just named in the UN report as one of the biggest funders for gangs in Haiti, who's also the president, the former president, right? And so they forced Haiti to have elections, right, eight months after an earthquake that destabilized the whole country where about a million people were still living in tents outside, but they forced these elections because this is how they could control Haiti. And when their favorite candidate, Martin Lee did not make the first round, they decided that they're going to force that. So Hillary Clinton flew into Haiti and threatened the sitting president would exile if he did not allow the change to the ballots to make this guy who did not make the first round president. And everything has been bad since then. Dr Wilmer Leon (09:24): You mentioned Bill Clinton decimating the domestic Haitian rice production in his book, the Choice Sam yet talks about the tie of rice to the start of the Vietnam War and how many people don't discuss one of the major motivating factors for the United States to go into Indo-China had to do with protecting American rice interest because they didn't want Asian rice flooding the market. And then that also made me think about nafta. And what NAFTA did to the domestic corn production in Mexico decimated the production of Mexican corn, which then decimated the livelihoods for Mexican farmers, which has contributed to immigration of Mexicans into the United States. So again, the show is called Connecting the Dots. And so any thoughts on that? Dr Jemima Pierre (10:25): Well, definitely I think, I don't even remember where I saw that recently that rice farmers, is it Rice? Rice producers were looking forward to having access back again to Haiti's market once this military invasion happened. And so there's a lot of things to think about under Reagan. Haiti, the Haitian government was forced to kill its local pigs, the black pigs, I don't know if people have heard about this, but you can look up Haiti black pigs. Black pigs are indigenous to that region. And Haiti was told that the pigs had some disease and they had to basically kill the entire population of black pigs on the island in order. And then they were replaced by the white pigs from the south of the US and pigs who are from the US not are not used to the climate in the Caribbean. So then they required very specific kinds of feeding food to eat. (11:30) And so those had to be imported. So that decimated the Haitian economy. So there's a way that you can see all these connected. The other thing is I don't think people always ask, well, you're making a big deal about Haiti. Haiti's not that important. Why would the US spend so much time and energy trying to destabilize Haiti? And then you realize then you have to ask these people, well, why is the fourth largest US embassy in the world in Haiti? If Haiti was not so important, why did the US feel that they have to do it? And why? Despite everything going on this week, despite the fact that you have the genocidal Zionist state killing thousands of Palestinians, they forced the UN to have a meeting about this intervention in Haiti over gangs, right? Supposedly over gangs. So that tells you there's something in there because Haiti actually becomes a big manufacturing hub for the us. And so I think a lot of us have been saying as the us, as the US moves towards a war with China, they will need a replacement of their manufacturing hubs. And Haiti already within 11 million strong population Haiti already provides is a space for a large manufacturing hub already. So as they lose Asia, they're going to rely more on Haiti. And so we have to think about that in terms of the economics of that as well as the politics, which we can get into later on as we speak more. Dr Wilmer Leon (13:01): You write in your piece in April of 22, the Biden Harris administration affirmed its commitment to the Global Fragilities Act by outlining a strategy for its implementation as detailed in the strategies prologue, the US government's new foreign policy approach depends on willing partners to address common challenges and share costs. Ultimately, the document continues. No US or international intervention will be successful without the buy-in and mutual ownership of trusted regional, national and local partners. And you touched on that in your open, but I think it's very important for people to really understand. That's really nice flowerly language, but it's not innocuous. That is a very nice way of saying that the United States is going to use organizations, indigenous organizations in order to promote American interests. Dr Jemima Pierre (14:15): Oh, definitely. Not just indigenous organizations, local states. I mean the recent upcoming invasion, military invasion of Haiti supposedly over gangs is actually being led supposedly by Kenya. And so all of a sudden you're asking yourself, Kenya's, all the way across the world on the east side of the African continent, what does Kenya have to do with Haiti? Well, before Kenya, the US tried to use Racom, which is a community of Caribbean states and nations. And that didn't work as well before them. They tried to get clac, which is the central and Latin American communities to lead in the invasion. Before them, they tried to get Brazil. So before them, they tried to get Canada to lead the invasion. And before that they tried to get Brazil to lead the invasion. The thing is to not have boots on the ground, as we've seen in the US in Ukraine, for example. (15:14) The point is to use other, so-called stakeholders, get other people to do the dirty work of US intervention and foreign policy and to get buy-in. And the reason I say Haiti's a laboratory, this is not the first time this is happening. And in the piece I outlined the Canada, France and US back Kuta that happened in Haiti in 2004, where the US and France, who our membership in the security council, they were behind the Kuta in 2004, immediately after the US Marines landed, took our president, put him on a plane and flew him to Africa. You had French Canadian and US soldiers there, but these two UN security council members were able to use their position to call an emergency security council meeting to push for a multinational. So-called stabilization force in Haiti. So to me, the UN is bankrupt with this security council in this particular sense. (16:23) So these people were able to use that, and then they convinced the UN that Haiti needed a chapter seven deployment. And chapter seven deployment is only for countries that are at war with other, there's a civil war. There was no civil war in Haiti, but they managed to convince the un. So then what they ended up doing was sending, getting a un, so-called peacekeeping mission to Haiti in a country that was not at civil war. But what it meant that was that you can have up to 50 to 60 nations participate in an occupation of Haiti. And that's what ended up happening. Brazil led that meeting and you had people from all over the world, police and military from all over the world occupying Haiti on behalf of the US under the guise of providing civility. That group stayed there from 2004 to 2017 when they drew down and brought back a smaller force. (17:15) But so Haiti is still under un occupation. And this is what this amazing law scholar, and I'm forgetting her name, I think it's China Mayville calls multilateralism as terror because the new, and this is what the Global Fragility Act, and that's why Haiti's always a laboratory is because you use Haiti. They tried it on Haiti and it worked. In fact, the WikiLeaks paper said the Minister peacekeeping mission in Haiti the cheapest was a foreign policy bonanza for the US because it was so cheap they can use the UN and then they can use all the local Latin America countries to do the dirty work. And so it's just really important to think about that and to think about how they're going to move forward from that on. And now the other thing to talk about aid is that they've already established a second phase of the Global Fragilities Act in the summer, and they're saying they're going fund, they're going to fund 260, so-called civil society NGOs on the ground in order to basically shape policy in Haiti as they leave for elections. So the plan is to actually take over the political structure of Haiti using the guise of civil society and Haitian solutions. Dr Wilmer Leon (18:32): So to that point, what this results in and what the Global Fragilities Act does is it takes the Department of State and it combines the Department of State and the Pentagon. And it's using, as you said in your piece, the hard power is the Pentagon. The soft power is the Department of State and under the pretext or pretense of bringing stability to the country, that enables the United States to go in with the military and engage in regime change and engage in control of the domestic space, but leaving out the fact that the reason the country is unstable in the first place is because of American policy in the country. Dr Jemima Pierre (19:34): Oh, definitely. And that's one of the key things we have to remember is this 2004 coup deta is a coup deta where Canada Friends and the US got together in Ottawa and Canada in 2003 and decided they needed to get rid of our elected democratically elected president. And then they follow through with this coup deta. And then it was given a go ahead by the UN because they run the security council and the other states on the permanent council also need to be held accountable because they sat quietly and let the US and France run this right the same way they did with Libya allowing a no fly zone of Libya. And so Haiti has been under occupation since 2004. And so at the beginning of the coup DTA in 2004, Haiti had about 7,000 elected officials. As of today, Haiti has zero elected officials, the US and the UN through the core group, which is a group of unelected non Haitian officials from the European Union, the organization of American states that meet that. (20:40) So-called court that meet to make plans for Haiti. They're the ones that have been running Haiti since 2004. So if there's a problem in Haiti, if there hasn't been any elections where we have no regional elections, no local elections, no presidential elections, it's because they have allowed that if there are guns in the country, because Haiti does not manufacture guns, it's because, and the guns are coming from the us, it's because they control what comes in and out of Haiti. They know who it is. In fact, the UN put out a report just last week stating explicitly that the former president that Hillary Clinton installed actually was funding two major gangs in Haiti to go after his enemies and to wreak havoc in the neighborhoods. And so all this tells me that everything that's happened in the last 19 years has been why Haiti is under occupation. And what they want to do is wreak havoc. And I don't know if people know this, the US has been trying to get an intervention force in Haiti for two years since the assassination of the president. And I have to say, as an aside, the Dr Wilmer Leon (21:46): Assassination was that Ju Moiz the Dr Jemima Pierre (21:47): Assassination, Jon Moiz, right? I have to put that an aside, that assassination happened about a month after Moiz came back from Russia trying to establish relationships with Russia. And I have to, this is an important piece that I think matters. And that was the first time Haiti was trying to establish relations with Russia. So part of that is because Haitians were protesting against intervention from the very beginning. They were always in the streets. And people forget that Haitians have been protesting against us, meddling for the longest times from 2018 19, in 2020, there were millions of Haitians on the street protesting to get rid of this public government that the US had installed and so on. People were protesting over and over again, and the US could not get this passed. And I don't know if you realize it. And then so all of a sudden, this gang problem emerges and it seems out of hand because the amount of guns entering the country the past two years has been unprecedented. And they're dumping guns and ammunition into the country. The guns are coming directly from Haiti. So they're fomenting this idea that there's this gun Dr Wilmer Leon (22:58): Coming directly to Haiti, Dr Jemima Pierre (22:59): To Haiti through the ports that are owned by the elite, the ports that are owned by the elite, the Haitian oligarchy that a couple of 'em have been named in the UN report just last week, that they need to be sanctioned. The US hasn't sanctioned any of them. They have not followed through the embargo that the Chinese government said that they should put. So they basically created, exacerbated the gang problem. That's what I should say. They exacerbated the gang problem. So then every news media you see about Haiti the past year has been about gangs, not about the fact that Haitians were protesting the fact that this illegitimate government signed this deal with the IMF to remove fuel subsidies and made life extremely expensive for Haiti, or the fact that the people were protesting this prime minister that was installed by the US in the core group. And so we forget that people are protesting against US Empire protesting against a defacto government that they didn't elect, and now we're only focusing on gangs. And it's easy to do that because they can manufacture that consent because they can control everything that's going on Haiti. So then they create the basket case, and then they come in and they say, well, we have to fix this problem because they need help. Dr Wilmer Leon (24:10): What is the average daily income for a Haitian? Dr Jemima Pierre (24:15): Oh, I haven't checked that in a while, but it's under three us. I think it's under five US dollars per day. Dr Wilmer Leon (24:21): Okay. Okay. $5 a day under. (24:24) Well, let's just for simple math, $5 a day, seven days a week, $35 a week, okay. A Beretta 40 caliber handgun costs about $600, a heckler and cock, 40 caliber handgun. It's about $800. An AR 15 style rifle is about $1,200. How does a person making $35 a week and that's on the high side afford a $600 handgun, a $1,200 assault rifle, assault style rifle, unless they're being supplemented, supplemented in quotes by some external force. So I wanted to make that point so that people could understand when you say that they're being imported by the elite, that you're not just spewing a just random foolishness. There's a logic to this and talk about the gangs because we've been hearing about the gang problem, but it's not just simply not all gangs are gangs. How about that? Dr Jemima Pierre (25:54): Yes, definitely. Well, in addition to the guns, you have to think about ammunition. You can have a gun if you don't have ammunition, what can you do with it? Dr Wilmer Leon (26:03): Throw it at somebody. Dr Jemima Pierre (26:06): And so I have to say, so in the past three years, a number of high powered military grade guns in the country has gone up to almost a million. And so you're trying to figure out these, and then when you see the pictures, you see pictures of young men in flip-flops and mismatched shorts and rioty shirts, Dr Wilmer Leon (26:30): Raggedy t-shirts and shorts, Dr Jemima Pierre (26:31): Raggedy T-shirts where they dump us youth clothes in Haiti. That's what they're wearing, Dr Wilmer Leon (26:38): That a lot of that clothing is made in Haiti, right, Dr Jemima Pierre (26:44): Right. Am I right? Exactly. And then set back as charity right after people stopped wearing them. Right. But yeah, so you have to ask yourself and you're like, well, is this really what is this problem? It's not like militaries are fighting against people. It's not like there's a civil war in Haiti. It's like these young men who are being paid to wreak havoc. And because the unemployment is so high in Haiti, it's really easy to find some young men and give 'em some guns and make them think that they're doing something or you send them annual ammunition. And just recently the Haitian police stopped a van that was full of ammunition coming from the Dominican border into Haiti. So we have to think about that. And this is the other part is Haiti has had a problem paramilitary since the US occupied Haiti in the 1915, changed our constitution and set up the Haitian police when they left 19 years later, which became the bane of our existence, but also led to the coming to power of Papa Doc and his really horrible military force, paramilitary force, Tonto Maku. (27:57) So we've had this long history of us sponsored terror through police, and then what ends up happening is with the end of the Risid government through ata, you have a lot of former police, former military disbanded the military because he said the military was always the bane of Hades existence. So he abandoned the military, and a lot of them actually became part of these paramilitary troops that would come back and be paid by the CIA to try and overthrow him. And so what you talk about gangs is this ragtag the news media likes to show these pictures of burning tires, rack tack, guys holding AK 47, whatever they're holding as if Haiti is engulfed. And the reality is, a lot of this is in the Capitol city with these groups. Some of them are right near the US Embassy, so they know who they are. (28:51) But the other thing is you have the police, the former police who also have formed what we call paramilitary groups. You have the local elite who fund armed groups to do what they needed to do. So you have a combination of things, but to me, there's also racialized part of this because it's easy to say, well, Hades filled with gangs, and these black people look at them, look at the pictures, but look at this. There's a mass shooting in Maine with this guy holding a gun. They still can't find him. Many mass shootings in the US are with white guys holding guns, but you don't see the breathless report. Imagine if we report about US mass shooting the way they report about hate Dr Wilmer Leon (29:35): 537 mass shootings in the United States the 1st of January, 2023. And Dr Jemima Pierre (29:44): That's right. And we only have 360 days, 365 days in the year. The reality is in places like Jamaica, they've been under state of emergency because of gang violence. And so why is Haiti and you have to think there's something else going on. It can't be just about the gangs. The other thing is the biggest gangsters in Haiti, as I always say, is the us, the core group and the UN mission there, because how gangster can you get meet in a different country, France, Canada and the us, they meet and they decide they're going to remove an elected president, or how gangster can you get any more gangster than Hillary Clinton flying in and changing the election results of a supposedly sovereign country? So we have to redefine how we're thinking about this gang thing and really think about, well, who's funding these young men and who are the real gangsters of the world that can allow this to happen or that make this happen and then turn around and present themselves just because they're wearing suits, they present themselves as the real people that can bring solutions. Dr Wilmer Leon (30:52): The name of this podcast is connecting the dots. Who did the United States follow into Vietnam, France? Who is the United States following t, Niger, France? Who is the United States following into Haiti, France? Should we be connecting these dots? Dr. Pierre? Are these relevant dots to connect? Dr Jemima Pierre (31:20): I think on some level, I think for West Africa, it's very interesting in terms of seeing the fall of French influence and empire. And I think the US is coming in to clean up to make sure that West Africa doesn't fall in the hands of supposed Russia. And so as France wanes, they're jumping in to do that. And I think with Haiti, it was the same thing. It was like the US came in, especially in the early 19 hundreds and through its Monroe doctrine, was basically to get rid of the European presence. And because there were a group of Germans actually that were trying, that owned a lot of stuff in Haiti that were doing business in Haiti, and the US did not want to have anyone outside of themselves to control the political and economic situation in the region. And so that's exactly what's happening. The US took over from France way early in the early 19 hundreds, and it's been doing that, and then France then just turns around and becomes a junior partner and continues the work of the White West Elite. Dr Wilmer Leon (32:25): Well, and not to get too deep into the weeds, but wasn't the basic premise of the Monroe Doctrine. It was an agreement between the United States and Europe. The United States committed to staying out of the affairs of Europe if Europe agreed to stay out of the affairs of the Americas, leaving the Americas to the United States. Dr Jemima Pierre (32:48): Exactly. Exactly. Except that now the Global Fragility Act, the US is viewing Europe as junior partners, as intensifies its control of the region, Dr Wilmer Leon (33:03): Who was the face of US policy going into Haiti and ushering out Jean Beron aee. Was it Colin Powell? Was he the face? The story that I understand is he was the messenger that went in to Haiti and told President Risid, you got to go. There's a plane on the tarmac if you don't get on it. Dr Jemima Pierre (33:36): Yeah, it wasn't Colin Powell, it was the US Ambassador to Haiti. I forgot his name at the time that actually the Marines had, but it was Colin Powell that was with Georgia re bush threatening. And if you go back to the media, you'll see it's always a black face. I mean, there's always a black face to do that work, Dr Wilmer Leon (33:56): Right? That's the point I want. That's the dot. I want to connect because it's now Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin that went to Kenya with the bag of cash to establish what a five year defense agreement with Kenya in order to entice them. So another black face on American imperialism. I call that minstrel diplomacy. Your thoughts. Dr Jemima Pierre (34:27): Definitely. And that's the most disappointing part, is that this has been going on. It Dr Wilmer Leon (34:35): Doesn't always Wait, wait minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. And it was, when we want to talk about the Racom and the Global Fragilities Act, it was a, not Gregory Meeks, it was the minority leader in the house from New York, Dr Jemima Pierre (34:55): Hakeem Jeffries. Dr Wilmer Leon (34:56): Hakeem Jeffries, and it was Hakeem Jeffries. It was Vice President Kamala Harris, Dr Jemima Pierre (35:02): Kamala Harris Dr Wilmer Leon (35:03): That went to Caricom. And when you mentioned Global Fragilities Act, I think that was Co-sponsored by Karen Bass. Dr Jemima Pierre (35:13): Karen Bass, and I forgot the name of the other person. Yes. It was two black Dr Wilmer Leon (35:19): Faces on two Dr Jemima Pierre (35:20): Black faces of the Empire. And if Dr Wilmer Leon (35:22): We go to the un, Linda Thomas Greenfield, Dr Jemima Pierre (35:27): And the State Department representative for the region is Brian Nichols. And this is the most disturbing part to me is because it wasn't always this way. So for Frederick Douglas, the great abolitionist, Frederick Douglas was sent to Haiti as a US representative in the late 18 hundreds, wasn't he? Ambassador? Yes. To sent to Haiti, and they really went, they sent him to actually negotiate to get this Bay Molson Nicola, which they still want actually to basically set up a base there, a US military base there. The Haitians have always gone against that, which is why they ended up setting up the base in Guantanamo Bay. So if you look at the map, it's a perfect way place for, it's between Cuba and Haiti, and this bay is there. And so it is perfect for the US ships to go through, get through the Panama Canal, wherever they need to get through to get to the Pacific. (36:20) And so Frederick Douglass came back and advocated against that on behalf of Haitians. He felt a responsibility. And he also have the NAACP wrote writing on behalf of Haiti during the occupation from 1915 to 1934, saying that this is talking about how Citibank was behind the occupation and how badly the US is treating Haitians and so on and so forth. It wasn't always this way. Now you have Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and then you have Barack Obama because it was under Barack Obama that this latest political party was put in power. This neo Deval political party was put into power. And so you have this, and then you have them sending Brian Nichols who's trying to, who's behind pushing this intervention. So meeting with all of these people, getting the Caribbean, getting these, I call neo-colonial coons, whatever you want to call them, the head of Jamaica, the head of Barbados, the head neo motley, right? (37:38) Who's the UN's darling? Because apparently the word on the street is that she's up for the UN Security Council secretary general job. And so she's doing whatever needs to be done to get there. So the US has managed to get all these black people. Now, Kenya, who knows nothing about Haiti get this, Kenya did not even have diplomatic relations to Haiti with Haiti until last month right before the un vote. So Kenya knows nothing about Haiti. They're talking about training their police to speak French when the majority of Haitian people don't speak French, they speak Creole, right? And so part of that is to think about how easy it is to use black people to use black faces to do empires bidding. And I actually think China and Russia had been pushing against this intervention for the past two years. And I think this last time, after two years of pushing back, they abstained. And I think part of the reason they abstained is because you had all these black countries pressuring them. And I think one of the things is I also think they're looking out for themselves and their relationship with these countries in Africa and the Caribbean. So they stepped back and allowed this intervention to go forward. But I think they stepped back because it was the onslaught of pressure from the black countries on Dr Wilmer Leon (38:56): Them. But why abstain? Why not vote no and kill the deal? Dr Jemima Pierre (39:03): Right? Because that's what I'm saying. I think they're looking out for their own best interests. I think they don't want to ruin their relationships with these black countries who are pushing. I think that's part of that, right? So they voted no all along and this time, so if you have Nia Motley, you have Ruto, you have all these people saying, this is Pan-Africanism. We're going to go help our brothers and sisters in Haiti by sending a military intervention. That's what Ruto is using. They're using the language of Pan-Africanism Racom is using the language of helping our brothers, even though Caricom has some of the most draconian anti Haiti immigration policies, deportation rules, but they're all using this language. And I do think that actually applied the pressure that the US got them to apply on China. Russia actually worked to get them to abstain. At least they didn't vote yes. But the abstention, I think, is a result of the pressure. Dr Wilmer Leon (39:55): You mentioned the training of Haitian police through these Kenyan interlocutors or these Kenyan invaders, and these Kenyan forces have been labeled as Kenyan police. But from what I've read, they're not Kenyan police. They're Kenyan paramilitary forces that have a reputation of being incredibly, incredibly brutal against their own countrymen. Dr Jemima Pierre (40:29): Yeah, definitely. And what's most distressing about this situation is that the only solution that these people think that they can have for Haiti and Haitian is a violent military. One is the one that has to do with force. They never tried. They never tried diplomacy. They never tried actually sanctioning these elites that they know run guns into the country. So yeah, the thousand police is not police. It's pe, military force, but also Kenya has a terrible reputation in Somalia in the proxy war there going in there and devastating Somalis. And so for me, just because they're black, in fact, if anything, I think these police officers will treat Haitians worse because they're black in a way that they wouldn't, can you imagine sending a Kenyan police force to Europe? Or why not send a Kenyan police force to Ukraine to help? And so part of that to me is it is telling, and I want to quickly just say Dr Wilmer Leon (41:36): Briefly, oh, well, the reason you won't send those black Kenyan forces to Ukraine is because the Nazis, the racist Nazis in Ukraine would chop off their heads. That's why. Dr Jemima Pierre (41:47): Well, definitely. But this idea that it's easier to watch one black group kill another. Oh, no, no, Dr Wilmer Leon (41:52): No. I truly understand the basis of the Dr Jemima Pierre (41:54): Question. No, I know. Dr Wilmer Leon (41:56): Go ahead. Dr Jemima Pierre (41:58): Yes, yes, we know. We know. It's really distressing to think about that because look at what's happening right now in the Occupy territories where you have Zionist state destroying killing. And right now, as we know, more than 7,000 people, 3000 children, and we have an internal, so-called gang problem, but we're getting a chapter seven military deployment to invade Haiti. But Zionist state Z, its entity can get away with killing how many people, and nobody's thinking about sending a military force to stop this bombing. So just think about that. No, the Dr Wilmer Leon (42:38): Military force that's being sent is facilitating the bombing Dr Jemima Pierre (42:41): Is to facilitate it. And so I want people to make those connections because you have to think, well, why isn't it absurd to send an armed military force to deal with gangs? So-called gangs in Haiti, but you're not doing it for Jamaica, which has been under state of emergency for two years over gangs. You're not doing it in the Middle East. And so we have to think about, well, this makes no sense. This idea of a military invasion of Haiti makes no sense in light what's going on in light of Ukraine and in light of what's going on in the occupied territories. Dr Wilmer Leon (43:13): You mentioned China a little bit earlier, and I always say to folks, when you engage in these type of conversations, it's usually a good idea to have a map in front of you so that you can understand the geopolitics. So we know that China has been establishing relationships with Nicaragua. We know that China is establishing relationships with Guatemala, and those are in Central America. And we know that there's been discussions about China building a canal to rival a Panama Canal through Nicaragua. And we know that the United States does not want that to happen. And we'd also know that the United States has been anxious to build a naval base in Haiti. So if you could connect those dots. Am I wrong to, again, the show is connecting the dots. Am I wrong to connect those dots? Dr Jemima Pierre (44:19): No, you're not wrong at all. The Global Fragilities Act specifically names China and Russia. So let's get that clear. And so one of the things is the waning power of the empire, right? Because they know that what their military used to be able to do, they can't do anymore. Look, they got beat by the Taliban 20 years later. How many trillions of dollars they destroyed Iraq, when was the last time the US won a war? I mean, let's be real, except maybe World War ii. And even that, Dr Wilmer Leon (44:51): They Dr Jemima Pierre (44:51): Had a lot of help from the Red Army. Let's be real Dr Wilmer Leon (44:54): Panama, Dr Jemima Pierre (44:55): Right? Panama or Dr Wilmer Leon (44:58): A big, huge military power called Panama, Dr Jemima Pierre (45:01): Right? Grenada, we just celebrated the 40th anniversary of the invasion of Grenada. Or you land in Haiti and you send special forces and you remove the sitting president. So they know that they're losing militarily. They know that they cannot sustain the multiple fronts, but they also know the rise of China and Russia is inevitable. Not even. They're already there. And so they know that they can't compete. And so they have to figure out how to mitigate that. And I do think so. That connection is good. Do you know that Haiti is only one of 11 countries that recognizes Taiwan, right? So what does that tell you? And they were forced to recognize Taiwan. And I think, I don't remember if it was under Duvalier who was a staunch anti-communist and really terrorized Dr Wilmer Leon (45:57): Who forced Haiti to recognize Taiwan. Dr Jemima Pierre (46:00): It was the US government to right, Dr Wilmer Leon (46:02): But wait a bit, Dr. Pierre, that can't be because we have a one China policy. So how could that be? Dr Jemima Pierre (46:09): No, it's just really fascinating. The more I think about it, the more I come to know this history, and you realize, well, why is Haiti only one of 11 countries to recognize Taiwan? And why was Taiwan coming to Haiti to sign bilateral deals and so on and so forth? And so part of that is they've been able to keep Haiti as one of the few in the region as one of the few people to recognize Taiwan as opposed to China, even though the US itself, as you say, has a one China policy. So I do think this is all connected. I think the US is trying to entrench itself. It wants to be near Haiti, closer to Haiti because it's worried about Venezuela. It is still mad about Cuba. It's worried about this. You're right, this canal that Nicaragua wants to get with the help of China and war with China is inevitable. (47:01) They all know that because they know that that's the only way they can try to hold on to this flailing empire. And so they're going to need to do as much as they can, but because they don't have the strength from military numbers to the capacity, you have 800 bases. That's a vulnerability. So they're going to get other, look what's happening right now in the Middle East. Your bases are being attacked. They're sitting ducks. And so if you have all of these things there, if you can talk, some people still into the dirty work for you, which is why they have military exercises with the Caribbean operation Tradewinds, they have military exercises with West Africa, and so they want to use these as proxies the way that they use Ukraine as a proxy against Russia. So they're going to use these as proxies against China. And that's the connection, right? The connection is all about trying to maintain global dominance, but not having enough firepower, not having enough political power to do so. So then using these others while you still can to do the dirty work for you, Dr Wilmer Leon (47:59): Talk if you would please, about the Dominican Republic, the Dominican Republic's role as it relates to Haiti and Columbia as well. Because I think that I read a number of reports that some of the assassins that went into Haiti and assassinated President Maise were Columbia or were out of Columbia, and we know that Columbia is one of the training bases for the CIA as the CIA projects this power in Central and South America. Dr Jemima Pierre (48:37): Yeah. Well, so Columbia also outsources mercenaries, and so it's very easy to use trained Dr Wilmer Leon (48:47): By the Dr Jemima Pierre (48:47): United States, right? 23 out of the 26 mercenaries come out of Columbia. Columbia's interesting. And I'm not a Columbia expert. What's interesting is the fact that they elected this leftist president, but Columbia has a long history of, right-wing governments also would fey to the us. And so we have to ask Columbia, well, why are there still US military bases in Columbia, right? So why did they sign an agreement to be with NATO to be like a NATO ally, NATO ally? And so Columbia is definitely part of that. I think I forgot your question, but No, Dr Wilmer Leon (49:25): I was asking about the relationship between the Dominican Republic and Columbia as it relates to being proxies basically for the United States. Dr Jemima Pierre (49:37): Well, definitely, and I don't know. I know the relationship with Dominican Republic, with Haiti, and one of the things, Haiti during the Haitian Revolution took over the entire island to get rid of the Spanish and to end slavery. And it's a very complicated history. And after Haitians beat the French, they had to take over the entire island in order to stop the constant attacks that were coming around, but also they got rid of slavery. And so then the Spanish help the elites get back. That part of the island and the relationship has always been fraught. The Dominican Republic has a deep anti-Asian, which is very much deep in racism. And so then that you have is our legacy with the Dominican Republic is in 19 seven massacre, parsley massacre, where they chop down about 30,000 Haitians and dumped them in the river, which is why that river, if you've heard that, and it uses called Massacre River, is the Dominican Republic massacre. (50:41) And Haitians, they've always, with the 2004 Kuta, a lot of the paramilitaries were trained in the military in the Dominican Republic. A lot of the arms are going into from the Dominican Republic and this ab, who's one of the most racist, right-wing presidents of Dominican Republic has had been going after Haitians forever. So for example, in 2013, the Dominican Republic nationalized 240,000 people, Dominicans of Haitian descent going back eight generations. So these people were Dominicans and basically removed citizenship from them. And Ab Nair has been rounding up the Haitian workers that have been in the Dominican Republic for generations cutting cane and so on and so forth. And that itself is a result of policies in the region that impoverish people and force them to go out and provide cheap labor. So the Dominican Republic and Haiti have had a really acrimonious history, but then the US Border Patrol is helping the Dominican Republic build a wall to separate Haiti in the dr. (51:45) So the US' hand is always in there, and we always have to, it is not to take away agency from the Dominicans or from the Haitians, but the truth is the reason that Haiti becomes significance because one of the few places that's still fight back, and I don't think people realize it. And that's one thing you have to think about, HAES, not that it's a mess. The reason they're still going after is because it's still fighting back places like Jamaica, for example. I don't know if people saw, there's a report recently that Jamaicans have no regular, Jamaicans no longer have access to their beaches. They have all been privatized and owned by foreigners. And so what they've become is a captive labor force to provide labor for these resorts. Well, Haiti, we don't have that yet. I mean, we have it in the northern part where in La Bai, which the Duval sold to, I think Royal Caribbean cruises. But this is what they want for Haiti. They want to remove the people from the land where people still own a lot of their land, where the country's still predominantly agriculture. They want to remove them from the land, privatize everything, steal the land, and turn it into a captive labor force for capital. And so, Dr Wilmer Leon (53:00): Wait a minute. To that point, I read and that the Clintons have purchased an inordinate amount of land in Haiti to build a private resort. Basically the model, what's been done in Jamaica. Dr Jemima Pierre (53:16): Jamaica, definitely Jamaica, Barbados, all those places that the other thing we have to talk about, the mineral wealth in Haiti. Wait, Dr Wilmer Leon (53:24): And one more point real quick is that you talked about resistance. I believe if those Kenyan forces make land on Haiti, Dr Jemima Pierre (53:38): They won't know what's coming. Dr Wilmer Leon (53:39): They got to fight on their hands that be prepared to manage. Dr Jemima Pierre (53:45): Yeah, I don't think it is going to be as easy as they think. And Dr Wilmer Leon (53:50): You wanted to hit on the mineral. Dr Jemima Pierre (53:52): On the mineral. And people also don't remember, don't know that Haiti, you can look this up. There are all these reports that Haiti has millions minerals and that people want, in fact, when they decided to start mining for gold, the first person that got a mining permit was Hillary Clinton's brother, Dr Wilmer Leon (54:14): Brother out of Canada, right? Dr Jemima Pierre (54:18): And so we have to think about Canada too, because Canada's people think of Canada as like Little Brother and Peter, but Canada has been front and center. In fact, Canada still has big manufacturing hubs. Gildan still produces T-shirts and stuff like that in Haiti. So it's just really interesting to think about how I wanted to end by saying, this is not a victimization. I think people like to say, oh, poor Haitians. Oh, look at this. People suffer so much they can't get a break. And I'm like, well, the truth is they've been fighting back, which is why they can't get a break, and they're going to continue to fight back. And you can't only see them as perpetual victims. What you need to see is do analysis and connect the ways that all the, the ways that Empire has tried to keep the people down, despite the fact that they're standing up to fight back. Dr Wilmer Leon (55:03): You've got a hard stop. I greatly appreciate you giving me the time today. You talked about minerals. There are geological reports that show there may be more oil off the coast of Haiti than there is in Venezuela. Venezuela, and Venezuela has the largest reserv of oil in the world. Dr. Jamima Pierre, how can people find you, connect with you if they need to? Dr Jemima Pierre (55:30): Yeah. Well, you can find me on YouTube through all these various interviews and my publications all over just a basically Dr Wilmer Leon (55:37): Black agenda report Dr Jemima Pierre (55:38): And black agenda report, as well as the Black Alliance for Peace. We have a whole Haiti resource page. Dr Wilmer Leon (55:43): Dr. Jamima Pierre, thank you so much for your time. Really, really appreciate it. Dr Jemima Pierre (55:48): Thanks so much for having me. Dr Wilmer Leon (55:50): Thank you folks. I got to thank my guest, Dr. Jamima Pierre for joining me today. And thank you all so much for listening to the Connecting the Dots podcast with me, Dr. Wilmer Leon. Stay tuned for new episodes every week. Also, please follow and subscribe, leave a review, and please, please, please, please, baby. Please baby. Please share my show. Follow us on social media. You can find all the links below in the show description. Remember, this is where the analysis of politics, culture, and history converge because talk without analysis is just chatter, and we don't chatter on connecting the dots. See you again next time. Until then, I'm Dr. Woman Leon. Have a great one. Peace and blessings. I'm out Speaker 1 (56:47): Connecting the dots with Dr. Wilmer Leon, where the analysis of politics, culture, and history converge.

Parmi les mesures inscrites dans le projet de Constitution, soumis à référendum le 17 décembre 2023, « l'expulsion dans les plus brefs délais » des personnes en situation irrégulière. Le parti conservateur avance même des chiffres et demande au gouvernement 12 000 expulsions avant la fin de l'année 2023. Le gouvernement socialiste juge la demande impossible, mais prévoit tout de même des départs et le président Boric a tenu récemment des propos controversés sur la question. Le gouvernement a annoncé l'expulsion de 262 personnes d'ici à la fin de l'année, puis 2 400 l'an prochain (2024), bien loin des demandes des conservateurs, en avançant des difficultés administratives avec le Venezuela. Les autorités chiliennes assurent que le pays a refusé l'accès à un avion transportant 60 personnes expulsées. Un message, selon Patricia Rojas, la présidente de l'association des Vénézuéliens du Chili rencontrée par notre correspondante à Santiago y voit la volonté de Caracas d'alerter sur la xénophobie dont font l'objet les Vénézuéliens dans les pays de la région.Un récent sondage le confirme au Chili : 69 % de la population considère que l'immigration entraîne une hausse de la criminalité. Le pays est confronté à l'apparition de groupes criminels, mais Byron Duhalde du Centre d'études sur les migrations met en cause le rôle de caisse de résonance des médias qui amplifient le sentiment général en mettant l'accent sur les délits commis par des étrangers. Selon l'une de ses enquêtes, publiée il y a quelques mois, entre 2010 et 2022, 3 % seulement des personnes placées en garde à vue étaient de nationalité étrangère.Pourtant, le président lui-même entretient l'amalgame, Gabriel Boric vient de présenter une loi de finances 2024 prévoyant une nette augmentation des dépenses de sécurité, de 5,7 %, et il a tenu des propos controversés, en s'adressant à ceux qu'il a qualifiés de délinquants : « vous n'êtes pas les bienvenus au Chili, nous allons vous poursuivre et nous allons vous expulser. » Haïti peut-il sortir de l'impasse politique ? La presse haïtienne s'interroge à la veille d'une nouvelle visite d'émissaires de la Caricom, la Communauté de la Caraïbe. Ils vont passer huit jours dans le pays pour discuter de leur « proposition de projet cadre de transition » qui prévoit notamment la formation d'un conseil de transition pour une durée de 18 mois. Mais la situation risque de rester bloquée car la plupart des partis politiques réclament toujours la démission du Premier ministre comme préalable, ce qu'Ariel Henry refuse.L'actualité en Haïti, c'est aussi le mouvement des instructeurs de police. L'école nationale, qui est le principal centre de formation des policiers, est située entre Frère, Pernier et Torcel rappelle Gotson Pierre, directeur de l'agence Alterpresse, « et se trouve à proximité d'une base de gangs armés. » Et les instructeurs ont arrêté le travail hier (4 décembre 2023), ils estiment que « les autorités policières n'ont rien fait jusqu'à présent pour éviter qu'ils se fassent attaquer. » Le journal de la 1èreLa Guadeloupe secouée par trois séismes consécutifs ces derniers jours.

As CARICOM Member States move closer to a Single Market and Economy (CSME), the role of the private sector will become increasingly important to manifest all the benefits anticipated from this massive regional transformation. With Dr Patrick Antoine, the Chief Executive Officer and Technical Director of the CARICOM Private Sector Organisation (CPSO), we discuss the CPSO and CSME, including:   *  How businesses, especially small and micro businesses, benefit from the work of the CPSO;   *  What is the Twenty-Five by 2025 Initiative, and can the stated target be achieved by 2025;   *  How he sees ICT facilitating the realisation of the Twenty-Five by 2025 target;   *  And why haven't Caribbean organisations more fully integrated technology into our operations.   The episode, show notes and links to some of the things mentioned during the episode can be found on the ICT Pulse Podcast Page (www.ict-pulse.com/category/podcast/)    Enjoyed the episode?  Do rate the show and leave us a review!     Also, connect with us on: Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/ICTPulse/  Instagram –  https://www.instagram.com/ictpulse/  Twitter –  https://twitter.com/ICTPulse  LinkedIn –  https://www.linkedin.com/company/3745954/admin/  Join our mailing list: http://eepurl.com/qnUtj    Music credit: The Last Word (Oui Ma Chérie), by Andy Narrell Podcast editing support:  Mayra Bonilla Lopez   ---------------- Also, Sponsorship Opportunities! The ICT Pulse Podcast is accepting sponsors! Would you like to partner with us to produce an episode of the podcast, or highlight a product or service to our audience? Do get in touch at info@ict-pulse.com with “Podcast Sponsorship” as the subject, or via social media @ictpulse, for more details.   _______________

At a recent meeting, CARICOM members, under pressure from the United States, changed their position to support western military intervention in Haiti. Black leaders from the US, Rwanda and Kenya were brought in to justify the move. Clearing the FOG speaks with Erica Caines of the Black Alliance for Peace's Haiti/Americas team to discuss the long history of outside intervention in Haiti, current resistance in support of people's-centered self-determination and what people in the United States can do to center Haiti in our work. Caines reminds us that Haiti was the spark that lit de-colonization movements throughout the Caribbean and Latin America and urges our solidarity with the Haitian resistance. For more information, visit PopularResistance.org.

Noticia de última hora Tokyo CNN — North Korea has launched a suspected ballistic missile, Japan’s Prime Minister’s office tweeted in the early hours of Wednesday local time. It comes after a nuclear- capable US Navy ballistic missile submarine made a port call in South Korea on Tuesday, just days after North Korea test-fired what it said was a solid-fueled intercontinental ballistic missile. The presence of the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine in the South Korean port city of Busan was announced by the country’s Defense Ministry on Tuesday afternoon. This is a breaking story. More to come. Natalicios: Rafael Cancel Miranda https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Cancel_Miranda Nelson Mandela https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela Estáditi: "Mayita" Meléndez renuncia a su cargo como delegada congresional en Washington. La exalcaldesa de Ponce había estado confrontando problemas de salud en los pasados meses https://www.elvocero.com/gobierno/mayita-mel-ndez-renuncia-a-su-cargo-como-delegada-congresional-en-washington/article_3296367e-24f5-11ee-8303-6fd898dbc72d.html Elizabeth Torres pidió miles en reembolsos a PRFAA por pasajes de primera clase. La funcionaria alegó de debía estar en primera clase para tener el baño cerca por una condición de salud https://www.metro.pr/noticias/2023/07/18/elizabeth-torres-pidio-miles-en-reembolsos-a-prfaa-por-pasajes-de-primera-clase/#google_vignette EL Caribe: NODAL TEMAS. Caricom acuerda la libre circulación de personas en el Caribe y pide a EEUU detener el flujo de armas https://www.nodal.am/2023/07/caricom-acuerda-la-libre-circulacion-de-personas-en-el-caribe-y-pide-a-eeuu-detener-el-flujo-de-armas/ Narcotráfico: El crimen organizado exhibe músculo social entre las clases más pobres a meses de las elecciones. El narco se reinventa sacando a las calles a miles de personas y obligando al Estado a negociar sus exigencias https://elpais.com/mexico/2023-07-16/el-crimen-organizado-exhibe-musculo-social-entre-las-clases-mas-pobres-a-meses-de-las-elecciones.html Puerto Rico: Atento el gobierno al desempeño de Genera PR. El gobierno pasa revista de los primeros días de GeneraPR a cargo del sistema de generación y reconoce interrupciones en el servicio https://www.elvocero.com/gobierno/fortaleza/atento-el-gobierno-al-desempe-o-de-genera-pr/article_9ae9822c-24ea-11ee-b8a9-43007dc3fa5d.html