Deloria
Banned
By the turn of the twenty-first century, Haiti was in no better shape than it had been two hundred years ago, before Louverture's revolt against the Directorate. Many of the same factors that had made life so hard for the slaves of Saint-Domingue remained constants in modern Haitian society: a nation of impoverished farmers slaved away to meet the impossible demands of the same French overseers that had flayed their ancestors alive, the IMF and its assorted multinational loan sharks circled the island like a committee of vultures waiting to feast, and just as Napoleon had schemed to create rifts between Louverture and Dessalines, Haiti's modern colonial masters had become experts at keeping Haitians at each other's throats. The 2000s ended in Haiti with a cataclysmic earthquake and tsunami, followed by months of renewed looting and rapine by agents of the imperialist powers, poorly disguised in Western media as "charity" and "relief". Haitians were lead on and then brutalized by one disaster profiteer after the next, all the while never once seeing the results of the aid promised them by the world.
Among the profiteers, none were more flagrant than Wyclef Jean, a Haitian-American entertainer who had left Haiti as a child and returned as an adult wolf among sheep. Even before the bodies were counted Jean was using his phony charities and connections in the corrupt Joseph regime to fill his pockets. He made millions as children lay in the streets dying, and nobody suspected a thing. The full extent of Jean's plundering was not fully discovered until years after the fact, when his flagrant attempts to flaunt international laws finally caught the attention of his American handlers. On July 23rd, 2019, Jean was arrested in Port-au-Prince onboard the Uruguayan container vessel Pedro Arriga under suspicion of drug trafficking; the resulting investigation ended with Haitian Police hauling 15.3 million dollars' worth of cocaine off the ship. As the whole affair unraveled, other, more lurid crimes were revealed: alleged bribery, murder, rape...
Circumstances being as they were, the new Haitian government boldly refused to extradite the despicable criminal to the States, and to their eternal surprise the Trump regime did not protest. Already embroiled in a demographic war with itself and on the verge of starting a real war with Russia, the American government simply did not care enough to save Jean from his fate. A vocal reactionary minority in the Haitian diaspora community protested, but they were ignored, as usual. Most Haitians today recognize the capture of Wyclef Jean as a turning point in Haiti's quest for independence, and the first steps towards international recognition as a sovereign nation that had the right to punish criminals under the protection of global bullies. Later, less subtle developments in the first third of the century would radically alter the course of Haitian history forever....
Among the profiteers, none were more flagrant than Wyclef Jean, a Haitian-American entertainer who had left Haiti as a child and returned as an adult wolf among sheep. Even before the bodies were counted Jean was using his phony charities and connections in the corrupt Joseph regime to fill his pockets. He made millions as children lay in the streets dying, and nobody suspected a thing. The full extent of Jean's plundering was not fully discovered until years after the fact, when his flagrant attempts to flaunt international laws finally caught the attention of his American handlers. On July 23rd, 2019, Jean was arrested in Port-au-Prince onboard the Uruguayan container vessel Pedro Arriga under suspicion of drug trafficking; the resulting investigation ended with Haitian Police hauling 15.3 million dollars' worth of cocaine off the ship. As the whole affair unraveled, other, more lurid crimes were revealed: alleged bribery, murder, rape...
Circumstances being as they were, the new Haitian government boldly refused to extradite the despicable criminal to the States, and to their eternal surprise the Trump regime did not protest. Already embroiled in a demographic war with itself and on the verge of starting a real war with Russia, the American government simply did not care enough to save Jean from his fate. A vocal reactionary minority in the Haitian diaspora community protested, but they were ignored, as usual. Most Haitians today recognize the capture of Wyclef Jean as a turning point in Haiti's quest for independence, and the first steps towards international recognition as a sovereign nation that had the right to punish criminals under the protection of global bullies. Later, less subtle developments in the first third of the century would radically alter the course of Haitian history forever....
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