Geographical location, has been hit hard by mother nature, hurricanes, earthquakes and the like. And since last year has had no elective leaders sitting in official offices. So whats to become of hades . Nearly 12000000 residents who have watched their cities become besieged by criminal gains and murder rampages. Here to break down whats really going on in haiti is front of the show. This is dan cohen. Dad is an independent journalist, filmmaker and founder of on captured media. You can see and support dans work at on captured dot media and follow him on twitter at dan cohen. 3000, dan, good to see you. Great to be with you, minute or so you were recently in haiti just before all of this new chaos erupt. It and then suddenly a new face out of haiti propelled him to the spotlight. The guy called jimmy barbecue sharissa. Can you tell us what you know about him and why you think the main stream media and social media voices are characterizing him as this evil and cannibalistic gang leader over there in haiti . I mean, what, or who does such a narrative . Even serv to well i and my colleague, kim ives of haiti, liberty are really the only independent journalist to interview jimmy barbecue sheritza who has suddenly become a household name. And otherwise its all mainstream media. So fortunately, we do know exactly who barbecue is. Hes known is what his background is, what hes about. And essentially haiti is undergoing a revolution right now in jimmy barbecue. Sherry ca is the leader of that. Essentially, he is a former police officer, was an exemplary cop in an anti gang squad. And he was basically thrown under the bus by the government at the time in, in 2019 for an operation that went to ride. And that basically radicalized him. And he realized that the system can not be reformed. It needs to go. We basically have to have a revolution. So hades masses can actually benefit can be able to, to live. And he began a process of not only providing as a social leader in his own neighborhood where he lived, providing clean water after School Educations and programming for kids, protection from criminals and programs like that, he began attempting to unite different neighborhoods in haiti, slums which are among the poorest in the world, in an effort to basically bring these neighborhoods together, that there were fights between them in order to have a revolution. And so that is basically what he has accomplished in many ways. There is now a coalition of under groups, neighborhood on groups called div on psalm, which means living together. And this coalition consists of anti crime armed groups that jimmy chevy, z a is the spoke smith and leader of and this is a group called the revolutionary forces of the g 9. And the g 9 has battled against a criminal federation called the j pep, the g people. And so all the time that hes battled against this criminal group, these criminal armed groups of basically from the poor neighborhoods. He said guys, lets stop fighting and unite. And lets have a revolution against the people who give us these weapons in order to kill each other and burn down businesses and basically make the country uninhabitable and horrible to live in. And so the us solve with this project was before i did before, my colleagues at haiti, liberty who i the largest haitian weekly newspaper, were kim, i just thing was editor. They saw this before any of us. And so they started demonizing him, they had a smear campaign, very similar to you know, what they do to any leader. They dont like us side gadhafi, saddam hussein, madura ro, anybody they, they come up with these smears against them. Theyve accused him through the National Endowment for democracy, which funds the primary, so called human rights organization. In haiti, davis used to move a series of mass occurs, which weve investigated thoroughly and are there, were not massacres at all. Let alone she receives involvement and what went on. So now hes basically stepped into the spotlight and there is a, an effort by the us to get an international, basically invasion into haiti in order to stamp out this revolution that shows you is leading of any d viewers of this program are well aware of them and what about this moniker barbecue is that really tied to cannibalism. Us, right . If you know, or surfing on x, formerly known as twitter, the last few weeks, youll suddenly see cannibals in haiti. And there was this video that went around because of an actual gang member in haiti eating someone, he had burned, he had burned, his body was burned, and the guy was eating, and its a horrible video. And that suddenly became barbecue was doing that. And thats how he got his name because he likes to burn people and eat them. But its totally false that gang, that videos from 2021 in a completely different part of the country than the capital where service a lives. And he actually fights against his whole front program, has been fighting against criminal games, who terrorized the country like that. So his name barbecue actually got that name when he was a kid because there were a lot of jimmys in his neighborhood and his mother sold grilled meat. She was like a meat vendor on the street. And so he became jimmy barbecue. Thats how we got the name. Now, before we get into the Living Conditions in haiti, id like for us to talk a little bit about the political situation. Theyre following the assassination of president job, and ill louise back in 2021 of our real henri, who movies himself tap to be Prime Minister on henri was linked, allegedly, to louises murder. Hes been in charge. So ever since. And many other nations seemed to simply accept this whole situation. But now with henri out of the country unable to return, is this a signal of the full collapse of the government there . Absolutely, the interim Prime Minister are real henri, who, as you said, is a top suspect in the assassination of the president job anomalies who appointed him as Prime Minister. 2 days before he was assassinated. And arial henri was basically anointed by the United States, so he was never elected. But he became basically the head of state, the de facto head of state and haiti for the last, nearly 3 years. And the government of haiti has now no elected officials and hasnt had elected officials for over a year. So, so called the so called democracy that the u. S. Has tried to impose on haiti has become a total sham. The president was assassinated, the Prime Minister was never elected. And its, and basically the leads fund these different armed groups, so called games that you hear about that kidnapped people that terrorized the population in, in very, very serious ways. And so whats happened is those armed groups have gotten out of the control of the sort of oligarchs of the regime. They basically became autonomous to some degree. And thats when sherrys a was preaching to them. You know, lets unite against these, the real gags. Theres the real elite criminals who are running our country and you know, take all of the profits from the sweat shops and by villas, and the Dominican Republic or in france or canada, or the u. S. And no, they dont actually love haiti. Theyre not actually part of this country. They just treated as a piggy bank is really what service the says. So lets take back the country for haitians, rather than some kind of transnational elite. So the government is totally in shambles. Are real on re, he is the us pop it. He went to kenya, actually of all places kenya, to sign a, an agreement with the kenyan president william rudo, to have Kenyan Police special forces. Come in, invade haiti, and fight the so called gang fight. These arm groups, and this is all organized by the United States, kenya, is the top vassal in east africa. Of the us receives, i think more military aid than anywhere in africa except for egypt. And so basically the u. S. Is desperate to find someone to go in and send their troops to fight these on groups to invade, and they couldnt get most countries wouldnt do it or would contribute maybe a few people. So can you suppose to send a 1000 Police Forces . Can you has a notorious history with death squads that are very, very brutal um and also been in has offered now to send 2000. So its kind of a coalition of the willing sort of thing where the, the us is desperate to stamp out this revolution. Wow, okay, so on re want to ask for intervention. Okay, so as we mentioned a little earlier, you just returned from haiti. Youve been many times filming a, a multi part doc. You series, what are the Living Conditions like for the average haitian . I mean, did you, did you see any parts of the country that are still functioning as it did before this, this new chaos and sued the picture that you get of total absolute chaos in haiti from the media is not really true. I mean, theres still people going about their daily lives. However, what daily life is for, the majority of haitians is poverty. If you go to neighborhoods in puerto prints in the capital, a sly right in and right next to the airport is the slumber of seat of sola, which was created in the 1970s by the us back the volume, a dictatorship as some kind of as like a of a factory area of factories that are going to bring prosperity to the masses and, and this kind of thing. But what actually happened is you had, you had many, many thousands of people leave their agricultural, traditional lifestyle and go live basically in slums and working these factories. And so in speak to so late its the most extreme form of poverty ive ever witnessed anywhere. I mean, you have People Living below that they live in literal sewage and 10 shacks and sewage every time it rains, sewage from the entire city of port a prince that comes down the hill through these canals floods into their 10 shacks of it. And its, its unavoidable. So this is literally almost a daily process because youre in the caribbean, you have, theres no clean drinking water, for example, people collect water to drink from the rooftop on top of these 10 checks. Or theyre, they big. They dig basically small holes in the ground and water collects in there and they drink that. Cholera is very common. I mean, you can imagine if youre just getting water from the ground, what kind of pathogens, what kind of diseases are in there . So theres no services from the state, theres no security, theres no anything. These are the most exploited people in the world. And so thats the regular situation that has been imposed on haiti by the us new liberal model. And the people are rising up in rejection of that. And so one of you see, you see in our documentary another vision that i made with, with kim ives of haiti, liberty, you basically see these conditions. You see how people and, and also in a, in other reporting actually did for redacted is really where, where you see this stuff. We went into the sums like that and you see the conditions people are living in and youve seen chevy z a. In the documentary, you see here is your going into these forms and talking to this people and being like, we cannot accept this, this isnt a normal way to live. We have to have dignity. We have to find a way to get food and you know, the only way to do that is to have a revolution. All right, coming up next 3 years on. And its an international who done it case. Now the former 1st lady of haney indicted for ties to her husbands murder. Well discuss it when we return with dan cohen sit tight. The m o will be right back. The the 0 on the ship did it should. So with the generalized scam, i dont only neely combine in that, i need this dive yet. The condition where image started, they pressed ok branch and to show us where, where to question, where in the homework. Sure. We have to put it on the floor. So branch over for gave me or and in that that might or is your name really quick here to wait here, well get lower. Need to visit with luke center because your cell closes. Tours, people are just closer with something. Oh sure. Yeah. Because i know trying to set our september sister i was in dearly or cory church the year one year or 2 very heavy or a sheet of or who i have. So theres no money orders to bills are here for the for in june 33rd mama for yeah, quarter santori, georgia or the welcome back to the m. O i manila chant, dan cohen, founder of on captured media, is back. Thanks for sticking around with us. Dan. So as we were saying in 2021, when german on luis was assassinated in his home, in his own bed, his wife was also shot, but she survived. In the following years, weve seen a multinational web of, you know, assassins of plotters, people in miami to columbia, just this wide ranging who done it case recently, his widow martine she was among the latest bunch of people that were charged with juvenile mo, he says, murder so the plot continues to fit in. What more can you tell us about this murder case, especially the queen bono . Yeah, you described it pretty well. Thats kind of International Web of assassins and hit man, it was actually colombian, the former soldiers who pulled the trigger. And they were among a group who apparently didnt know what was going on. There are the informants involved . Um, there is testimony from a former d d, a chief that the ca, you know, knew exactly whats going on. Its pretty hard to believe that the u. S. Embassy or ca, basically the intelligence apparatus doesnt know who did it, and theyve come up with different fall guys. But the reality is, if you look at who the enemies of job and im always were then becomes pretty clear and you know, my sources in elite circles in haiti have have confirmed this to me. That basically, the oligarchs were tied to the us in haiti got together and decided to kill joe can always because basically he had turned against them. He was put in the presidency by the former president Michelle Marcelli, who was, who was himself put in by Hillary Clinton when she was the secretary of state, and the obama administration. And marcelli tapped job. And im always because he was basically unknown in order to do his bidding job. And im always was a banana x border from the north of the country, not really a politician or from the political machine. And so he was put in as a puppet. And um, you know, we saw that he acted as a puppet. It 1st uh President Trump brought him tomorrow logo to browbeat him into a supporting one guy though in venezuela for example. But drove home always wanted to have some kind of legacy for himself to impact the country in a positive way. And so he started looking to create Development Projects in haiti, particularly in the rural areas that, that he is from. And in order to do that, he needed money, and there was a huge amount of money that was basically disappeared by Michelle Marcelli and his cronies, called the petro co rebate fund, which was basically a, an interest free loan given by venezuela during, during the chavez and prof all years and that money was gone. So he basically went to the old guards who put them in and said, well, i need some money for these Development Projects. And they said, no, you dont understand, you work for us. And so job and im always begin to look at the big contracts they had with, you know, youtube, the utilities where these guys were making huge amounts of money. And he started to prosecute them in, in uh, using the courts to go after them. He also began looking away from the, the us unipolar order. He began, he went to turkey. Um, he had some contact, i think, with the russians through the, through the Russian Ambassador in venice in venezuela. For example. Um haiti is also one of the, i think only 12 or 13 countries in the world that recognizes taiwan. So its very important for it on the internet for a number of reasons. But you politically. So when, when we started to kind of turn away and look elsewhere, he suddenly was murdered. So its, its clear that basically the leads of haiti got together and decided to assassinate him and theres no way that us doesnt know about it. But i, you know, theyve, theyve tried to put a lot of fall guys forward. I think thats what martine movies, his wife is to, i mean, she got, she got shot next to her husband. You know, they were hiding under the bed and she got shot too. So thats a pretty uh, a shaky story. I would say that she would have done been, come in, murder, her husband, shoot her too in order to what benefit in some way, how is she benefiting . But its, you know, you can, it just says everything that we dont and ultimately know who the intellectual authors of this country are. You can imagine if that happened, you know, in some, in a time in a country type, tied to rush hour in russia itself. Had the us media would, would, you know, would seize on this, but the president of haiti gets assassinated by some guys were probably tied to the u. S. A bunch of mercenaries and its basically just yesterdays news. All right, so it sounds like luis has conscience took over and that ultimately resulted in his desk and you know, this really shady story surrounding his wife. Well lets, thats time deeper then into haitis history. Haiti want its independence from france back in 18 o 4. But when the us went in with a violent occupation, us stayed there on the island for roughly 20 years into the early 19 hundreds. The us continued to control haitis, public finances all the way up until 1947. And by then taking some 40 percent of the countrys National Income to service, thats to the west and debts to france. Some of that debt to france was reparations to the slaveholders. And how much of that deep history plays into haitis economic problems today . Exactly. Haiti was the 1st and remains the only country to be a successful slave uprising. It really set a precedent and let led to the end of chattel slavery in the western hemisphere. So, anyone whos glad to not be in a slavery system today in the americas, including here in the United States, should o, in part, thanks to haiti and ever since then, as you described very well, manila, the us has punished 80 for resisting for refusing to be slaves, i mean, you laid out the history quite well. We can, you know, go even more recent into the 19, uh, the 1990. When the jumbo trying i received a theologian priest was elected in a landslide popular vote. The the countrys 1st democratically elected president. And several months later he was over thrown in a us, orchestrated could a talk, and haiti was thrown into shambles. He was actually put in in 1994. He was put back into power by the clintons in 1994, only to be once again crude by the United States in 2004, 10 years later. So, um, ever since that cool, haiti has been in really a downward on the downward spiral where the state has basically been gutted the hades, unable to support itself. Its lost sovereignty. It, you know, the decisions are made here in washington or in hotel rooms, high in the hills above puerto prints where the masses dont have access. And you know, so to choose the president assassinated in haiti has just been abused in every single way possible because of what it means to the kind of international system. And so that is exactly what created the conditions for this Popular Uprising to occur. I mean, if you look at the speeches of airspeed back in, you know, the 19 ninetys, he spoke very similarly to how jimmy sheritza speaks. Today he talks about, you know, this, they, they both talked about this tiny percentage of the population has almost all of the wealth. And thats an unlivable, thats an untenable situation. But the difference is error speed used. He didnt have weapons. He didnt believe in using arms in order to obtain or to achieve. His vision for haiti barbecue does barbecue is a former cop. Hes not afraid of weapons. He knows how to use them. And thats basically the difference. So where ever steed was qu twice, and now hes in haiti. He was basically allowed to live by the United States and he lives quietly and theres a university that he runs in, in some way. And, and, you know, it does good things, but, but its not revolutionary. Its kind of a, a, a band aid on the gunshot wound. And so i, so hes kind of basically irrelevant. And now chevy ca steps into the limelight as, lets actually change change this country and you know, we will, we will defend our sovereignty, will defend our borders. Any Foreign Force that comes into our country to, to attack us to do horrible things to our population. Will fight them. Wow. A double co on the same person, i would say thats at least uncommon in world history. All right, dan cohen independent journalist and filmmaker founder of on captured media. Thank you so much for your time and insight today. Absolutely pleasure. And that is going to do it for todays episode and modus operandi the show that dig deep into Foreign Policy and current affairs. Im your host middle of chan. Thank you so much for tuning in. Well see you again next time to figure out the m. O. The, [000 00 00;00] the right here, the economy is on the brink. Now our economy is what are the envy of the world . President biden, during his at 2024 stated the union said under his policies, the American Economy is literally the envy of the world. What would the cost of every day items consumed by americans as a by 18 percent . Since the day he took office for the Economic Data support president by this claim. So i know he was it on this edition a story. 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