--Greedy Vampires (Part 23 of 50)-
Let's see in this part how Greedy Vampires have turned against Greedy Vampires.
Lucy Orlando claimed that she did Gerard Latortue a favor to make him the Coup-Prime Minister, then Gerard Latortued turned against her and stabbed her in the back.
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By Anthony Fenton
Investigative journalist
for Global Researsch
Orlando claims that on December 31st, 2004, Youri Latortue was present in Gerard Latortue’s office when Deeb was given a check for $1 million.
Deeb denies receiving a check, though he acknowledges that there was a check made out to his company, Omega.
Deeb maintains that the only money he received for weapons was the $533,333.33 deposited in the form of a letter of credit into a Panamanian account.
He says that this money is frozen, but that Finance minister Henri Bazin has been hassling him lately to write a check in the amount that is frozen to Youri Latortue.
The first time Orlando was asked about her relationship with Joel Deeb, she responded, “Joel Deeb? I’ve never heard of that; I know Youri Latortue, and the government in Haiti, they are the ones involved with Joel Deeb, with the arms...
They want to call my name, they should ask Youri Latortue the nephew or the cousin of Gerard Latortue...
” Orlando also claims that “[Gerard] Latortue put Youri to be the head of Haiti.”
Orlando takes credit for having helped install the Latortue regime, but thinks that they have come to resent her due to her close relations with the Republican Party: “They don’t like me because I’m a Republican.
Who put them there? I was the one talking to the Governor, to the President, to promote them.
the first person they hate is you because they don’t want you to know their business...
What I got for thank-you was ‘drop-dead Lucy.’
Orlando considers herself a key activist in helping to facilitate the downfall of President Jean Bertrand Aristide.
Several individuals offered different versions of circumstances, which found Orlando meeting with President Bush in the weeks leading up to Aristide’s overthrow in February 2004.
All agree that Orlando demanded that Bush personally intervene to “take Aristide out.” Interestingly, Orlando would not deny that this meeting took place and abruptly ended the interview when this question was raised.
Orlando’s connection to the Latortues was evidenced by her appearance at a December 2002 conference sponsored by USAID and IFES in conjunction with the anti-Aristide Haitian Resource Devleopment Foundation.
Gerard Latortue and Bernard Gousse, as an employee of IFES, were also in attendance.
The University of Miami human rights report goes into great detail about how IFES, under the guise of “judicial reform” and “civil society strengthening” helped to destabilize and foster the conditions for the overthrow of Jean Bertrand Aristide.
In 1999-2000 alone, IFES received close to $7 million for such efforts from USAID.
Orlando has devoted a lot of her life to the Republican Party.
She says she went to Haiti and registered Haitian-Americans in Haiti who had never registered to vote, “with the Chairman of the Republican Party as my witness.” She says her allegiance to the Bush family goes back to the Reagan years.
She takes pride in her work mobilizing Haitian-Americans to vote Republican, “I moblized all the Haitian people, told them about the Republican Party, got them to vote...
” In this capacity she says she worked in Haiti with U.S. backed interim Minister for the Haitian Diaspora, Alix Baptiste.
Baptiste refused to discuss his work with Lucy Orlando.
Orlando was also upset because Gerard Latortue had fired a close friend of hers, Rene Meroney who had been appointed head of Haiti’s state-run but slated-for-privatization telephone company, TELECO.
She had brought this friend with her to President Bush’s January 2005 inauguration.
“If they get mad if you have a friend in the position for whatever, they fire them and destroy the name for people to know that they are thieves, they are this, they are that, because of me, because anybody who is my friend, they try to destroy them...
They put them responsible for what I said in the newspaper.”
Asked if she thinks today’s violence is as bad as the previous (1991-94) coup period, Orlando replied, “I believe that Latortue has been doing the same thing and have been blaming it on the Aristide people...
Everybody’s after one thing, fill their pockets and then blame the poor ones.”
“Youri Latortue has his own guns...
why do you think Latortue need all the munitions right now? To give to all his guns, this way when they want to go and do something, they can go and do it for him, that’s why the country’s not going anywhere.”
“But Latortue will pay one day”, Orlando prophesied.
“One day the whole world will know the truth about the Latortues.”
This seems less likely no that Haiti’s de facto President Boniface Alexandre has recently characterized Lavalas supporters as “terrorists” and Roger Noriega, echoing his friend Andy Apaid, has openly blamed the violence and kidnappings on Aristide: "As a longtime observer of Haiti and a longtime consumer of information about Haiti, it is abundantly clear to me .
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that Aristide and his camp are singularly responsible for most of the violence and for the concerted nature of the violence"
Until the world does know about what the evidence suggests is a government-run kidnap ring, Haiti will be condemned to ongoing, seemingly inexplicable ‘scourges’.
Alternatively, the gangsters could be punished, the political prisoners freed, and democracy restored.
But between there and here, there is, to use a word familiar to Coderre and Pettigrew, a lot of ‘propaganda’ to be cleared away...
to be continued.
--Coming next (Part 24 of 50) The C.I.A. Role.
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