{"id":255987,"date":"2024-03-04T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=255987"},"modified":"2025-01-10T15:05:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T15:05:55","slug":"haiti-a-paradise-for-state-crime-unspoken-agenda-offshore-natural-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/03\/haiti-a-paradise-for-state-crime-unspoken-agenda-offshore-natural-gas\/","title":{"rendered":"Haiti a Paradise for State Crime–Unspoken Agenda: Offshore Natural Gas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Haiti – Global Research<\/p><\/div>\n

27 Feb 2024 – In his recent article \u201cThe Destabilization of Haiti: Anatomy of a Military Coup d\u2019Etat<\/a>\u201c, Prof. Michel Chossudovsky memorizes 29 Feb 2024 as the 20th anniversary of the coup d\u2019\u00e9tat against Haiti\u2019s elected president Jean-Bertrand Aristide.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He also describes the military motives for controlling Haiti, namely to destabilize the country and to plunge it into constant chaos. This is precisely what has happened. Haiti is in a constant state of near absolute poverty \u2013 by far the poorest country in all Latin America according to official UN \/ World Bank indices.<\/p>\n

Is there a reason?<\/p>\n

As we will see, Haiti is also one of the world\u2019s richest countries, per capita, judged by available natural resources, oil and gas. Discovered before the 2010 earthquake and confirmed by the tremendous 7.0 Richter seism.<\/p>\n

Haiti\u2019s Potential Hydrocarbon Deposits<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA), issued in May 1980 a report under the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC), describing the likelihood of large oil deposits in the Caribbean, including off-shore of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, see this<\/a>. Haiti is also said to have trillions of dollars-worth of off-shore natural gas, see this<\/a>.<\/p>\n

These discoveries were likely made in the 1970s and 1980s, perhaps earlier, by US satellite imaging. US satellites have mapped the world for hydrocarbon resources already at least 50 years ago. Such information used to be available on internet \u2013 no longer.<\/p>\n

Brief Haitian History and Background<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Fran\u00e7ois Duvalier<\/strong>, also known as Papa Doc, served as the president of Haiti from 1957 until his death in 1971. He was succeeded by his 19-year-old son, Jean-Claude Duvalier<\/strong>, nicknamed \u201cBaby Doc\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Duvalier dynasty was an autocratic hereditary dictatorship, indiscriminately killing people who dared interfering with their government style. The dynasty empire lasted almost 29 years, from 1957 until 1986, spanning the rule of the father-and-son duo, Fran\u00e7ois and Jean-Claude Duvalier. Both served the US\u2019\u00a0political and economic interests.<\/p>\n

The sociopolitical situation in Haiti deteriorated seriously under the regime of Baby Doc and his powerful wife. In 1986, President Reagon asked Jean-Claude to leave Haiti, so that the US could \u201chelp install\u201d a more stable and serious government. In February 1986 Baby Doc fled to France in a US airforce jet.<\/p>\n

The end of the Duvalier dynasty brought hope for \u201cfreedom\u201d and democracy to the Haitian people. There was a succession of short-lived presidents until 1991, when Jean-Bertrand Aristide<\/strong> was first elected in February 1991. His presidency lasted 234 days, when a brief military government took over.<\/p>\n

In the ten years following Mr. Aristide\u2019s first election, the US-supported political turmoil in Haiti, with a succession of heads of state, during which Mr. Aristide was four times elected president.<\/p>\n

His last presidency started in February 2001 and ended three years later when Mr. Aristide, Haiti\u2019s first democratically elected President, was quietly deposed by a US-guided coup on 29 February 2004 and deported to South Africa, where he presumably still lives in exile. He was discouraged<\/i> by the US State Department from returning to Haiti.<\/p>\n

This coup was planned well in advance, by the US, France and Canada. The subsequent process of militarization (foreign troops) was undertaken on behalf of \u00a0Washington Brazil under the helm of progressive \u201csocialist\u201d President, Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva<\/strong> \u2013 Lula for short \u2014 and George W. Bush<\/strong>, both then Presidents of their respective countries, Brazil and United States.<\/p>\n

By now we know that Lula has nothing of progressive, and even less of \u201csocialist\u201d in him. He is and has been totally sold to the usurping west, to Wall Street and the IMF \u2013 and that already during his first two terms as President of Brazil, 2003-2011.<\/p>\n

Both Lula and Bush are traitors of their countries but Lula, a make-believe socialist, has deeply betrayed his country during his first two terms, and now, since 1 January 2023, in his third term, but also the people of Haiti.<\/p>\n

After associating with Wall Street and the IMF during his first two terms, Lula is again allying with the money brokers \u2013 the debt machines, as one may call them.<\/p>\n

Remember during the French Revolution (1789-99), French black slaves in Haiti launched the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), led by a former slave and black general of the French Army. After 12 years of struggle and conflict, Napoleon Bonaparte\u2019s forces were defeated, and on 1 January 1804 Haiti declared her sovereign independence.<\/p>\n

Haiti, thus, became the first independent nation of Latin America and the Caribbean, and the first country in the Americas to eliminate slavery. Haiti is the only state in history established by a successful slave revolt.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the 1980s, with close to 200 years of independence (on January 1, 2024, Haiti celebrated 220 years of independence), a black, sovereign, autonomous island in the Caribbean was perceived as a \u201cdanger\u201d for the United States\u2019 \u201cnational security\u201d. There already was a \u201cCommunist Cuba\u201d to deal with just 90 miles (150 km) from the southern Florida border. A black independent, uncontrolled, Haiti was beyond limits for a still racist white US supremacy.<\/p>\n

Plus, at that time, Haiti\u2019s riches in petrol and gas were already known to Washington, though, most likely not to Haiti.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thus, the US, French and Canada ganged up against Haiti\u2019s government to control the island and her riches. Chaos was the modus operandi \u2013 and US-induced chaos and crime reign up to this day over Haiti.<\/p>\n

The 2010 Earthquake\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

What is important to know is that there are no coincidences.<\/p>\n

In the 1970s \/ 1980s and perhaps up to early 1990s, huge petrol resources were satellite-discovered deep under the sea floor off-shore from Port-au-Prince, Haiti. To get to these resources is expensive.<\/p>\n

Unless they are brought up closer to the surface \u2013 for example by an earthquake, that cracks the tectonic plates, letting pressure bring the oil closer into shallower areas.<\/p>\n

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Assistance camp set up by the Brazilian Army\u00a0(Licensed under CC BY 3.0 br)<\/p>\n

On 12 January 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, leaving its capital Port-au-Prince devastated.\u00a0About 220,000 people\u00a0were reportedly killed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Among other aid, the Clinton Foundation was supposed to bring order and development back to Haiti, after the seismic devastation. In fact, the contrary is true. More than ten years later, chaos and crime continue dominating the Haitian part of the island of Hispaniola.<\/p>\n

Is there a purpose behind it, other than that the Clinton Foundation enriched itself by the multi-million-dollar donations it received to help restore social and economic order in Haiti?<\/p>\n

This amply explains why the United States will not leave Haiti to her independence. The monetary stakes, the riches are too high.
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Today, the same Lula, who helped instigate the 2004 coup against President Aristide, is \u201cvolunteering\u201d in setting up a UN occupation \/ security force in Haiti, consisting mainly of Brazilian troops. This military occupation is supposed to bring back order and promote economic development.<\/p>\n

They will also prepare the ground \u2013 or waters \u2013 for massive exploitation and extraction of the huge hydrocarbon reserves. This is the military\u2019s hidden agenda. Of course, not part of the official terms of reference.<\/p>\n

May Haiti remember her status of the first independent state in Latin America \u2013 and rise again.<\/p>\n

These hydrocarbon riches belong to the people of Haiti.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a> Peter Koenig is an economist and geopolitical analyst. He is also a water resources and environmental specialist who worked for over 30 years with the World Bank and the World Health Organization around the world in the fields of environment and water. He lectures at universities in the US, Europe and South America and writes regularly for online journals. Koenig is the author of <\/em>Implosion \u2013 An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed,<\/a> fiction based on facts and on 30 years of World Bank experience around the globe; co-author of Cynthia McKinney\u2019s book, <\/em>When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis (Clarity Press \u2013 1 Nov 2020)<\/em>; and a co-author of <\/em>The World Order and Revolution! \u2013 Essays from the Resistance<\/a>. He is\u00a0a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization and a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Chongyang Institute of Renmin University, Beijing<\/em>. <\/em><\/p>\n

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According to the World Atlas (January 2019), recent findings have confirmed Haiti\u2019s enormous oil and gas reserves. Discoveries show that\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the nation of Haiti (yet to be confirmed) might have some of the largest oil reserves in the world<\/span><\/span><\/strong>.<\/strong> They are estimated to be potentially larger than those of Venezuela. See this for more details<\/a>.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n