Haitian Tsunami

by Michael Schillingworth/Nordic News – According to U.S. and United Nations confidential sources, after the Carnival the situation in Haiti may become troubling. This worrisome scenario preoccupies the International Community already worried about the lack of leadership from the current President and Prime Minister who have been completely ineffective in dealing with the country’s economic situation.

What worries Minustah most is the fact that they are getting information that the people will take to the streets to demand a change in policy and a change of government. Corruption has been rampant, and the officials in Haiti have done nothing to curtail the rise in prices of commodities despite the fact that these products have drastically dropped in price on the International market.

Custom officials refuse to make business flow in a smooth way, because this is the way they make money, by complicating the importation process. Customs is being run like a private business belonging to higher ups who manipulate prices to extort money under the table. The current director has been there with his cohorts for the past 24 years and as can clearly be seen, he and his group have become very wealthy milking the custom’s cow.

A few bankers control the flow of money being laundered through this Caribbean nation’s banking system to the point where World Financial Institutions have been asking whether Haiti has become a Chinese Laundromat.

After the departure of the Haitian military in 1994, Aristide’s cronies opened the doors of the country to the Colombian drug cartels. Several incarcerated drug bosses who used to do business with the ex-Haitian leader who was returned to power in Haiti by U.S. troops had claimed that chaos always benefited Aristide and his drug trade. These canaries who have sung their songs to the DEA have testified against the Lavalas regime’s leader, who is currently sitting in South Africa enjoying the benefits of drug money which he is presently using to again create havoc in Haiti.

These are the same monies which they fear will be used to generate chaos in order to confuse the masses into believing that if Jean-Bertrand Aristide is returned to the country things will be better.

Some sources even believe that President René Préval is in cahoots with his former mentor Aristide in order to embroil the upcoming legislative elections to prevent them from taking place in April of this year.

The Duvalier party is also ready to have their leader Jean-Claude Duvalier who is in exile in Paris return as a candidate for the next presidential elections. All these facts put together makes of Haiti a nation ready for a political Tsunami.