Additionally, we learn from this article that "Lonnie Dunn who owned the Dauphin plantation "planned to straighten and widen the entrance to the [Fort Liberte] bay so that super tankers could be brought in and the cargo distributed to smaller tankers for transfer to U.S. and Caribbean ports that could not accommodate large ships..." (Photo of Fort Liberte, Haiti).
We've put on the Ezili's HLLN website the other relevant portions
of this paper that talks about the corporate eye the US has had, for
decades, on Fort Liberte in Haiti as an ideal deep water port for the
multinationals to establish an oil refinery.
In the 50s and
60s there was little need for Haiti's ports or oil as the Middle
Eastern monopoly was gushing dollars galore. No need for these oil
monopolies to undercut themselves by putting more oil on the market to
cut their profits. Manipulated scarcity thy name is profit! or, did I
mean capitalism?
But the oil embargo of the 70s, the
advent of OPEC, the rise of the Venezuelan factor, the Gulf Crisis
followed by the Iraq war for oil, all has made Haiti a better bet for
the three-piece suits and their military mercernaries called "Western
governments", yep, a way easier place to pillage and plunder behind the
"bringing democracy" or "humanitarian aid" public covers.
Serendipitously with Haiti's 2004 Bush-the-son Regime Change, a follow
up to the 1991 Bush-the-father's military coup, we find, flurries of Congressional "discussions" about off-shore drillings in preparation, perhaps, to the eventual "revelation" as written in the Dunn paper
years ago, that "there is a need for supertankers that require
deep-water ports which are not readily available along the U.S. East
Coast - nor ...welcome...for environmental and other consideration will
(not) permit the construction of domestic refinery capacity on the
scale that will be required."
Occidental side of the Fort
Despite being renovated by ISPAN in the mid' 1990, it is now in a very
bad shape. All the balls and most of the canons have been stolen along
with most of the cut stones paving its alleys and imported from Nantes,
France. They were quite simply stolen by people not fully aware of
their illegal act. Moreover, many holes within the fort enclosure are a
potential threat to the preservation of the Fort in case of rain.
We underline that Haiti is an ideal dumping ground for the US/Canada/France and now Brazil,
because environmental, human rights and health issues and other
considerations in the US and in these other countries, would probably
not permit the construction of domestic refinery capacity on the scale
that new explorations of oil in this hemisphere will required. So, why
not pick the most militarily defenseless country in the Western
Hemisphere and dot it with such unsafe initiatives behind a UN
multi-national "humanitarian" mask and fatherly Bill Clinton's snowy
white hair and smiling face?
It is relevant to note here that
most of Haiti's major deep water ports have been privatized since the
Bush 2004 regime change in Haiti. It is also relevant to note here what
I wrote last year in the piece titled Is the UN military proxy occupation of Haiti masking US securing oil/gas reserves from Haiti:
"If there's substantial oil and gas reserves in Haiti, the US/Euro
genocide and crimes against the Haitian population has not yet begun. Ayisyen leve zye nou anwo, kenbe red. Nou fà ¨k komanse goumen. (Read again, John Maxwell's Is there oil in Haiti.)
The revelations of Dr. Georges Michel and the Dunn Plantation papers
seem to positively answer the question that there is substantail oil
reserves in Haiti. And our Ezili Dantà ² Witness Project information is
that it's indeed being tapped and contracted out, but not for the
benefit of Haitians or Haiti's authentic development. That's why there
was a need to marginalize the Haitian masses through the ouster of
Haiti's democratically elected Aristide government and put in the UN
guns and UN occupation that today masks the US/Euros' (with a piece to
the new power that is Brazil) securing Haiti's oil and gas reserves and
other mineral riches such as gold, copper, diamond and underwater
treasures. (Majescor and SACG Discover a New Copper-Gold in Haiti, Oct. 6, 2009; See, Haiti's Riches and There is a multinational conspiracy to illegally take the mineral resources of the Haitian people: Espaillat Nanita revealed that in Haiti there are huge resources of gold and other minerals; Fayed's Forgotten Years: The Conman, The Dictator and the CIA Files)
Today, the US and Euros say they are happy with Haiti's "security
gains" and "stable" government. To wit: the last elections the US/UN
presided over in Haiti excluded Haiti's majority party from
participation. Haiti's jails are filled, indefinitely detained without
trial or hearings, since 2004, with thousands upon thousands of
community organizers, poor civilians and political dissenters that the
UN/US label "gangsters." Site Soley has been "pacified." There are more
NGOs and charitable organizations - about 10,000 - in Haiti then in any
where in the world since 2004 and the Haitian people are a million
times worst off than they were before this US/NGO civilization
(otherwise also known as the "International Community") and their
thugs, thieves and corporate death squads came and disenfranchised nine
million blacks. Food prices are so high, some resort to eating dirt in
the form of cookies to assuage Clorox hunger.
Lovinsky Pierre Antoine,
the head of Haiti's largest human rights organization was disappeared
in 2007 in UN occupied Haiti with no investigation done. Between 2004
and 2006 under the Western occupation, first by the US Marines then the
UN multinational troops headed by Brazil, from 14,000 to 20,000
Haitians, mostly who opposed the occupation and regime change, were
slaughtered with total impunity. More Haitian children are out of
school today in 2009 than before the US/NGO "civilization" came post
2004. Under the US-imposed Boca Raton regime ,Haiti's Supreme Court was
fired and brand new and paid-for judges, without any Constitutional
authority inherited from the people of Haiti's mandate, took the place
of the legitimate judges and law officers and are still metering out
paid-for rulings in 2009 under the UN occupation and international
community's tutelage.
And, as a matter of power, privilege, inequity and the violence of neocolonialism, white-sex abusers and pedophiles
are having a hay day and human trafficking of Haiti children are at an
all-time high. It is no revelation that in the stakes of corruption in
Haiti or in Africa that a great many of the foreign NGOs along with
their bourgeois/elite/pastors/priests and others are destroying poor
children's life with absolute impunity while being painted as "saints"
in their press back home the better to raise more funds to masturbate
on Black pain some more.
Yet, Special UN Envoy, Bill Clinton,
tells us "I am serving the next two years as a US Special Envoy to
Haiti...This is the best chance in my lifetime that Haitians have ever
had to escape the chains of their past..." The former President added,
"If Haiti pulls out of this it will be in no small measure because of
the efforts of non-governmental organizations."
What that means is perhaps this is the Haitian subcontractors, ruling oligarchs
and US/Euro military industrial complexes' best chance to finally
impose their chains on Haiti for good. Tap Haiti's oil, keep it so poor
it will be grateful for slave wages at sweatshops. Let sexual tourism
and the white sex-abusers do as they will. Transfer quickly more Haiti
properties to foreigners and render the "good" Haitians as maids,
butlers and servants in US/Euro-owned Haiti tourist resorts like the
rest of the Caribbean. Militarize Haiti so that dissent is not possible
even as a thought. That's perhaps UN Envoy, Bill Clinton's "best chance
in my lifetime" scenario for Haiti. Nothing else makes sense. (See, HLLN
comment on new IMF figures indicating Haiti is no longer the poorest
country in the Western Hemisphere and Does the Western economic calculation of wealth fit Haiti -fit Dessalines idea of wealth distribution?NO! and Comparing crime, poverty and violence in the rest of the Hemisphere to Haiti and Pointing Guns at Starving Haitians: Violent Haiti is a myth and The Western vs the Real Narrative on Haiti and No other national group anywhere in the world sends more money home than Haitians living abroad.)
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