Posted on 01/15/2010 10:56:51 AM PST by C19fan
Exiled Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide has announced that he is ready to return home to help rebuild his earthquake-shattered country.
The former president has been living in South African since fleeing Haiti during a violent uprising in 2004.
Aristide told reporters gathered at a hotel near Johannesburg's international airport that he is ready to return from exile as soon as today.
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He can smell the money!!!!
Just what Haiti needs now, a two-bit runt Marxist hack stirring up more angst.
Why doesn’t Baby Doc Duvalier come back too?
exactly!
Couldn’t we just give them Obama? They have his type of economic plan already in place.
Yep, he is still looking to collect the money the Bush Administration refused to give him with good reason at the time.
There is a picture of him with alligator tears after the earthquake, I can’t seem to fing it otherwise I’d post it.
I think Baby Doc is living well in France not Switzerland.
Aristide——This is the guy who really made a pact with the devil——called for necklacing his opponents.
No wonder the boob Slick supported him.
Aristide and his associates looted government coffers, wrote checks to front companies for nonexistent purchases, padded invoices to get kickbacks from vendors, secretly owned companies that cheated Haiti of taxes, and laundered the money they stole through shell companies and secret bank accounts set up in the United States and the offshore tax havens of Turks and Caicos and the British Virgin Islands...Nearly $20 million has been documented as stolen between 2001, when Aristide took office as president for the second time, and 2004, when he fled or was forced out of the country according to varying accounts.
http://thekomisarscoop.com/2005/11/follow-aristides-money-offshore-how-haiti-was-looted-with-the-help-of-tax-haven-shell-companies-secret-bank-accounts-and-us-citizens-corporations/
American $$$.
You’re probably right. Anywhere French is spoken and the criminal is out of reach.
The US sends them $290 million a year in foreign aid, not including any disaster relief. It certainly isn’t going into economic development or infrastructure improvements, so it must be there lining someone’s pockets.
We got one, why shouldn’t they?
Why they didn't string this guy up, I'll never understand.
The hearts and prayers of Americans always go out to those who suffer catastrophic events. Haiti is but the most recent example. American people and treasure are already flowing into that sad place, made sadder still by this earthquake.
Of course, as Barack Obama spent his first year in office reminding the entire world, America is just like all the other nations out there and we are a most “unremarkable” people.
I’d remind him that the wealth which we are now about to pour into Haiti is the result of the superior and productive political and economic system left us by some wise and far-sighted men over 240 years ago. How sad that Obama is well on the way to destroying it.
The persistent poverty in places like Haiti is a product of the inferior systems the people of far too many of those nations continue to tolerate. I don’t know much about the human beings at the top of the current Haitian food chain but situations of this sort have, in the past, caused a huge surge in the quantity of numbered accounts in Swiss banks. I hope that doesn’t happen in this situation. If it should, I hope the decent members of the Haitian population conduct public hangings of those involved.
As one commentator recently remarked, Haiti could easily join the other wealthy tourist spots in the Caribbean were it not for their unfortunate inability to move out of the 18th century.
If any good can come from this disaster, perhaps it will be that they will reexamine their social and economic “model” and rebuild their homeland in ways that will permit ALL of their citizens to participate and prosper.
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