Staging...close to USYeah, why would Russia want anything to do with that hell hole?
Their nuke boomers are just over 12 miles from our shore. Have been for decades. Apparently the Chi-Coms do the same thing.Staging...close to US
Clip Sigh has a vid on twatter showing 'barbeque' cutting meat off a roasting corpse. Gutter slime.Posted for fair use......
Is the feared gang boss ‘Barbecue’ now the most powerful man in Haiti?
Jimmy Chérizier says he is leading Haiti’s poor against corrupt government forces but experts point to a dark and violent pastwww.theguardian.com
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Is the feared gang boss ‘Barbecue’ now the most powerful man in Haiti?
Jimmy Chérizier says he is leading Haiti’s poor against corrupt government forces but experts point to a dark and violent past
Tom Phillips and Luke Taylor
Sun 10 Mar 2024 07.30 EDT
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Murals in the pauperized Haitian slums he rules liken him to the Argentinian guerrilla Ernesto “Che” Guevara.
In interviews, he poses as a God-fearing Caribbean Robin Hood and celebrates freedom fighters and agitators including Fidel Castro, Thomas Sankara and Malcolm X.
“I like Martin Luther King, too,” the Haitian gang boss Jimmy Chérizier told the New Yorker journalist Jon Lee Anderson when they met last year. “But he didn’t like fighting with guns, and I fight with guns.”
The stunning gang-led insurrection against Haiti’s government has catapulted Chérizier, a raffish, rifle-wielding 47-year-old mobster, into the international headlines – a place history suggests he enjoys.
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Over the past five years the Haitian outlaw – who has emerged as the main spokesman for the gang uprising against Prime Minister Ariel Henry – has welcomed a succession of foreign reporters to his gangland domain hoping to justify what he calls his noble – if bloody – crusade to defend his country’s famished urban poor.
“I’m not a thief. I’m not involved in kidnapping. I’m not a rapist. I’m just carrying out a social fight,” Chérizier told the Associated Press last year while sat outside a bullet-pocked house.
In a 2022 interview with Vice, Chérizier called his ragtag favela army “a sociopolitical structure and force that is fighting on behalf of the vulnerable”.
Experts say the truth about Chérizier – who is best known as simply Babekyou (Barbecue) – is far more complicated and unsavory.
Born during the 1970s, during the brutal and corrupt reign of Baby Doc Duvalier, Chérizier has previously said he was one of eight siblings and lost his father at the age of five. The children grew up in Delmas, one of the rundown Port-au-Prince communities he now runs, by a mother who hawked fried chicken on the streets.
By Chérizier’s account, it was his mother’s occupation that earned him the nickname Barbecue, although many claim that a habit of incinerating his victims was the real reason.
Before establishing himself as Haiti’s most influential gang kingpin, Chérizier was a member of the country’s national police. He worked for the Unité départementale de maintien d’ordre, a riot squad whose members have been accused of shooting protesters dead.
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Haitians protest in Port-au-Prince to demand Ariel Henry’s resignation. Photograph: Johnson Sabin/EPA
The motto of Haiti’s police is “proteger et servir”: to protect and serve. But Chérizier – who has also publicly voiced admiration for François “Papa Doc” Duvalier, Baby Doc’s father – appears not to have honoured those values.
He was expelled from the force in 2018 for alleged involvement in a litany of crimes, including a horrific massacre that year in a slum called La Saline in which 71 people were killed, seven women raped and 400 homes torched.
Chérizier, who leads a gang alliance called the G9 Family and Allies, has denied wrongdoing. But the former police officer has been sanctioned by both the US and the UN for his alleged crimes. The G9 controls some of Port-au-Prince’s largest slums and most important road arteries allowing Chérizier to paralyze the country on several occasions, cutting off petrol supplies and forcing schools and hospitals to close.
“He is a criminal businessman,” said Louis-Henri Mars, director of the Haitian non-profit Lakou Lapè.
“In 2020 me and other peace-builders went to see him to ask him to stop his assaults on the Bel Air neighbourhood [in Port-au-Prince] and he made some promises,” Mars added. “But he still continued burning down people’s houses. He listens, but in the end he does what is in his best interest.”
Speaking to the Financial Times, Mars compared the gangster to a volcano, constantly poised to erupt. “He has some charisma, he’s a thinker, but he’s a violent individual also.”
Like many Haitian crime bosses, Chérizier is also a man with high-level political connections. He was rumoured to be close to the former president Jovenel Moïse, whose 2021 assassination paved the way for the current mayhem.
Some suspect Chérizier has political aspirations of his own.
“Barbecue is engaging and really is a natural politician … when I met him, I knew straightaway [he] was a force to be reckoned with,” the Sky News correspondent Stuart Ramsay wrote after their 2023 encounter.
“He sees himself as a revolutionary fighting against the dark corruption of government and oligarch businessmen, but make no mistake, he is an out-and-out gangster.”
Diego Da Rin, an International Crisis Group Haiti specialist, said Chérizier’s attempt to paint himself as a compassionate if iron-fisted champion of the ghetto was not entirely without basis. “He gives women presents on Mother’s Day. He gives money to families that don’t have the means to send their kids to school. But people are aware that he is [also] one of the main people responsible for the nightmare they are living,” Da Rin said.
That nightmare plumbed new depths this week after Chérizier announced he was leading a massive gang assault against Henry’s government, and ordered his gunmen out on to the streets to sow chaos. Since the attacks began on 29 February, criminals have burned dozens of businesses and police stations, forced the international airport to close, freed thousands of hardened criminals from jail, and laid siege to the port.
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Henry, who was in Africa when the uprising began, has said nothing and been unable to return home.
“Unfortunately, Barbecue is now the most powerful man in Haiti,” said Judes Jonathas, an independent consultant based in Port-au-Prince.
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I think a lot more places -than the ones mentioned- would be like that.
Send the French.Not our problem.
I thought guy this was Pete buttigiggFolks there is a reason Elon is leaving the vids of "President Elect" BBQ ripping strips off a calf muscle to chew and the Hazelwood MO Skullcracker up. Its to get us all braced up. That has been life in South Africa for two decades now.
Jack Dorsey would never have left those up. Elon is not a saint but at least he understands America has a 1st Amendment and not pansy crippled under D Notices like the UK press must operate. It did no favors censoring our twitter for a decade. Yes its vile, ogrish and distasteful, some say disrespects victims and kin but you understand viscerally what we face.
Sans his beard and chuck hat
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Make sure you watch whatever vids Elon *permits* on twitter as the outcry will rise soon they are too graphic/honest. Haiti has always been like this since 1814 overthrow of French colonial rule. They turned to the dark side to assist them and wholly welcomed voodoo to win.
At an obvious cost. The civilized world has the sense to be ashamed of cannibalism and its cult ritual adherents know its illegal and keep it private.
Now you understand why this was necessary March 1st. They know what is coming.
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Yep, Albertville is horrible. These are the nastiest people you've ever seen. I know a few people here in Albertville that are bringing them in too. The head of the Episcopal Church is one of them. Retired Col will be speaking at the Commission Wednesday at 9:00. It was in the Gleam. I'm planning on going.Great, Albertville Alabama will get flooded with these folks. They’re coming in droves to work in the poultry industry. Our cultural dynamics are changing. I was driving down our most affluent street the other day and Haitians were walking everywhere. This is going to turn out badly for my County shortly.
Am being a bit picky, but it actually goes back to 1791 when the slave rebellion started.Make sure you watch whatever vids Elon *permits* on twitter as the outcry will rise soon they are too graphic/honest. Haiti has always been like this since 1814 overthrow of French colonial rule. They turned to the dark side to assist them and wholly welcomed voodoo to win.
There are consequences to practicing voodoo for generations...haitians are evil.i have met a few-they reek of it.stay away or you will die.
I'm going to say (I may miss the date and the person, but don't hold it against me the thought is valid) back when the quake hit, and I think it was Pat Robertson, said something along the same lines, the progressive left booed him off the air.There are consequences to practicing voodoo for generations...
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Well, I've got some issues blaming human spiritual activities for natural phenomena like giant earthquakes, tornadoes and floods (while acknowledging that God does have the power and ability), but inviting dark forces into your lives over the generations is absolutely a factor in behavior repugnant to any decent human.I'm going to say (I may miss the date and the person, but don't hold it against me the thought is valid) back when the quake hit, and I think it was Pat Robertson, said something along the same lines, the progressive left booed him off the air.
It's in the same realm as having unprotected sex has consequences for generations.
Or even eating the fruit in the garden, has consequences for generations.
Yeah I get that, no problem. And if it was Pat, he might have been out of line, in at least saying it publicly, without the Lord saying it, I personally don't have any info from the Man on high on that, but the idea, of voodoo destroying a people is valid as you noted. Whatever form that may take.Well, I've got some issues blaming human spiritual activities for natural phenomena like giant earthquakes, tornadoes and floods (while acknowledging that God does have the power and ability), but inviting dark forces into your lives over the generations is absolutely a factor in behavior repugnant to any decent human.
Summerthyme
Build a base to eff with the US the way we mess with them from bases near their border.Yeah, why would Russia want anything to do with that hell hole?
Unless they can strap their soldiers to the missiles, they still need a staging area, complete with a military base and air strip.Their nuke boomers are just over 12 miles from our shore. Have been for decades. Apparently the Chi-Coms do the same thing.
Their boomers are armed with missiles that have multiple warheads. They can be launched while submerged. Our response time is nothing if they launch. We of course can do the same to them. Then anyone alive can walk a nuclear waste land if that is what you want to do. As far as staging area they are currently using Venezuela to bring troops through the open southern border. Nobody needs Haiti. It is already happening.Unless they can strap their soldiers to the missiles, they still need a staging area, complete with a military base and air strip.
And give them .001 % of all the money collected!If only there were a rich ex-president with a foundation that could raise some money to help the poor bastards in Haiti.
Thats what we need...
Saw a short where it was claimed there are cannibal gangs chasing people in the streets.
Or finding out "you" are on the menu!
That'll teach me to map . . .He already has…..
He (Biden) already has…..
You'll be relieved to know Border Agents (and Air Marshalls) no longer have to serve sandwiches to illegals at the border.
That's because Biden is flying the illegals from foreign airports directly into American airports.
However, when asked which airports and the numbers flown in they refused to reveal that information as would cause local law enforcement vulnerabilities.
I hope they don't eat the Chinese dock operators. They'll just be hungry again in an hour.....With any luck, they'll all eat each other. No need to get involved.
Who do you think has a better approval rating now... Biden or Barbeque?Don’t forget, tens of thousands of Barbecue’s countrymen have flooded the USA.
I filmed and reported the “Haitian Invasion” in 2021-2022, in my hometown of Del Rio.
Many were flown into the heartland, via Laughlin AFB, because Congressman (TX-23) @TonyGonzales4TX “vented the pressure” at the border.
Not only did TG’s actions spread covid, STDs and other diseases, he also allowed their worldview, character and way of life into America’s cities.
Voters must FIRE Gonzales in the Texas CD23 Primary Runoff on May 28.
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