Coups, Coups, Coups

[lucklucky]

Touche

[Strannik]

If true it raises French haute cuisine to the new heights

 

Edited September 15, 2023 by Strannik

[urbanoid]

They've always eaten strange things.

[Stuart Galbraith]

Oopsie.

 

[Stuart Galbraith]

Unconfirmed as yet, but keep an eye on it, it was slated 'at risk' yesterday.

Edited September 17, 2023 by Stuart Galbraith

[Stuart Galbraith]

This is the alternative  take.

 

[Ivanhoe]

On 9/15/2023 at 10:24 AM, Strannik said:

If true it raises French haute cuisine to the new heights

 

The USMC used to refer to Army soldiers as doggies, so...

 

[BansheeOne]

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Colombian pleads guilty in Haiti president assassination

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Colombian ex-soldier Mario Palacios is the fifth of 11 defendants to plead guilty in the 2021 killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moise.

A former Colombian soldier pleaded guilty in a US court on Friday for his alleged role in the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise.

Prosecutors had said 45-year-old Mario Palacios was part of a group of Colombian contractors who broke into Moise's home, where he was killed.

Palacios had originally pleaded not guilty in the case.

What do we know about the murder of Moise?

On July 7, 2021, at the age of 53, Moise was shot and killed in his private residence by a group of more than 20 people, most of them Colombian mercenaries, when his guards failed to intervene.

According to the indictment, Palacios entered the president's home with the mercenaries and stole money and jewelry.

Prosecutors, however, said he played a minor role in the conspiracy and had no decision-making power within the group.

Plotters initially planned to kidnap Moise

Palacios is the fifth of 11 defendants to plead guilty in the 2021 killing. As part of a deal with prosecutors, he agreed to cooperate with the investigation and plead guilty. The sentence will be handed down on March 1.

According to prosecutors, the conspirators initially planned to kidnap the Haitian president but later decided to kill him. They say the plotters had hoped to win contracts under Moïse's successor.

Three defendants have already been sentenced to life in prison in the case: former Haitian senator Joseph Joel John; a businessman of Haitian and Chilean nationality, Rodolphe Jaar; and another retired Colombian soldier.

https://www.dw.com/en/colombian-pleads-guilty-in-haiti-president-assassination/a-67809171

[BansheeOne]

What do they say about history repeating as a farce?

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Haiti: Gang leader launches armed bid to oust PM Henry

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Haiti was paralzyed for a second day as gangs and security forces fought in the capital Port-au-Prince. A notorious gang leader said "the battle will last as long as it needs to" and advised people to stay indoors.

Haiti witnessed a second day of extreme violence on Friday as gangs looking to oust Prime Minister Ariel Henry rocked the capital Port-au-Prince with heavy gunfire near the city's international airport and a prison.

Haitian gang leader Jimmy Cherizier held a press conference on Friday and said that he would keep trying to remove Henry.

"The battle will last as long as it needs to. We will keep fighting Ariel Henry. To avoid collateral damage, keep the kids at home," the powerful gang boss, known by the nickname Barbecue, said.

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https://www.dw.com/en/haiti-gang-leader-launches-armed-bid-to-oust-pm-henry/a-68423885

[BansheeOne]

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Haiti: Prime Minister Ariel Henry agrees to resign

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Prime Minister Henry says he will step down once a transitional presidential council is created and an interim premier named. He had held the position unelected since the 2021 assassination of the previous president.

Haiti's Prime Minister Ariel Henry has agreed to resign amid surging violence in the Caribbean country, the chair of the Caribbean Community said Monday.

Henry said he will step down once a transitional presidential council is created and an interim premier named. He had held the position, unelected, since the 2021 assassination of the previous president, Jovenel Moise.

"We acknowledge his resignation upon the establishment of a transitional presidential council and naming of an interim prime minister," said Caribbean Community chair Irfaan Ali, also the president of Guyana. Ali thanked Henry for his service to Haiti.

A seven-member presidential council will be formed for the transition to elections in Haiti, which will appoint a new interim prime minister, Ali said late on Monday.

Henry is currently stranded in the US territory of Puerto Rico, following his trip to Kenya last week to lobby for UN-backed police to be deployed in his country.

Caricom leads urgent international talks on Haiti crisis

Members of a Caribbean regional trade bloc known as Caricom organized emergency talks in Jamaica on Monday to address the violence in Haiti. The meeting also involved Canada, France, the UN and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

Caricom has pressed for a transitional government in Haiti for months amid protests calling for Henry's resignation.

Guyanese President Mohamed Irfaan Ali, the current Caricom chair, warned that, despite the ongoing talks to restore "stability and normalcy" to Haiti, some Haitian groups "are not where they need to be."

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https://www.dw.com/en/haiti-prime-minister-ariel-henry-agrees-to-resign/a-68498325

[Ivanhoe]

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/harvard-fellow-charged-attempting-smuggle-4-million-weapons-coup-south-sudan
 

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But Ajak, and his confederate Abraham Chol Keech, a naturalized U.S. citizen who lives and works in Utah, are now alleged to have been on a buying spree to send $4 million worth of Stinger missile systems, grenade launchers, sniper rifles, automatic rifles, and ammunition back home to support a violent uprising, according to a federal criminal complaint unsealed March 4.

“Keech and Ajak knew that smuggling the weapons and ammunition out of the country without a license from the U.S. government was illegal and would violate U.S. laws. Nevertheless, in or around February 2024, they caused funds to be transferred to undercover agents through U.S. Company-1 to purchase approximately $4 million worth of munitions and other goods for illegal export to South Sudan,” the complaint reads.

 

 

[Ivanhoe]

https://cis.org/Oped/Bidens-dirty-deal-sold-out-Haitian-democracy-migrant-deportations-former-envoy-says
 

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The Biden administration scuttled Haiti’s plans for free elections and backed a de facto dictator in exchange for his willingness to accept deportees, America’s former envoy to the country says.

Daniel Foote, the Biden- appointed former US special envoy to Haiti, says the administration has supported Dr. Ariel Henry — who took power as both acting prime minister and acting president after the assassination of President Jovenel Moise — because he was willing to accept Haitian migrants who have rushed the US border.

Henry was supposed to have organized new elections by now. But in September 2021, a large group of Haitian migrants camped in Del Rio, Texas, and images of the encampment — including border agents on horseback trying to prevent them from crossing the river — caused a political headache for President Biden.

Henry agreed to take in deported Haitians, Foote says, and the Biden administration stopped pushing for democracy on the Caribbean nation.

“I am confident that the chief reason they did that is his [Henry’s] malleability and the fact that he agreed that he would take all the deportees that they wanted to send. It wasn’t long after that ... we started putting them on planes,” Foote told me in an interview for my forthcoming book, “Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History.”

“The US carried out a non-democratic transfer of power. We were just kicking the can down the road so that we don’t upset the vote moving toward the midterms.”