Haiti Enlists Blackwater Founder and Trump Ally to Take on Criminal Gangs
Erik Prince, a private military contractor and prominent supporter of President Trump, is working with Haiti’s government to conduct lethal operations against gangs that are terrorizing the nation and threatening to take over its capital.
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Haiti’s government has hired American contractors, including Mr. Prince, in recent months to work on a secret task force to deploy drones meant to kill gang members, security experts said. Mr. Prince’s team has been operating the drones since March, but the authorities have yet to announce the death or capture of a single high-value target.
Security experts said Mr. Prince has also been scouting Haitian American military veterans to hire to send to Port-au-Prince and is expected to send up to 150 mercenaries to Haiti over the summer. He recently shipped a large cache of weapons to the country, two experts said.
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Rod Joseph, a Haitian American U.S. Army veteran who owns a Florida-based security officer training company, said he had been in talks with Mr. Prince to help supply personnel for his contract since late last year.
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With Haiti’s undermanned and underequipped police force struggling to contain the gangs, the government is turning to private military contractors equipped with high-powered weapons, helicopters and sophisticated surveillance and attack drones to take on the well-armed gangs. At least one other American security company is working in Haiti, though details of its role are secret.
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Since drone attacks targeting gangs started in March, they have killed more than 200 people, according to Pierre Esperance, who runs a leading human rights organization in Port-au-Prince.
After the U.S. occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq ended, security firms like those owned by Mr. Prince started seeing big streams of revenues dry up. Private military contractors are looking for new opportunities, and they see possibilities in Latin America.
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Ecuadorean officials denied that they had signed any security deal with Mr. Prince.
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THE COLLAPSE of Haiti’s government in April last year was a challenge but also an opportunity. An interim government called the Transitional Presidential Council was installed. A UN-brokered, Kenyan-led security mission arrived soon after. But a year later things are worse than ever. “We are approaching a point of no return,” Maria Isabel Salvador, the UN’s top official in Haiti, told its Security Council at a meeting on April 21st.
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The gangs don’t need it. Increasingly sophisticated, they use Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite system to communicate, organising themselves to the extent that they have been able to keep control over access to Haiti’s ports. They also extort lorry drivers and bus operators moving along many of the country’s main roads.
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The council is so desperate that it is exploring deals with private military contractors. It has been talking to Osprey Global Solutions, a firm based in North Carolina. The founder of Blackwater, Erik Prince, visited Haiti in April to negotiate contracts to provide attack drones and training for an anti-gang task force. The council declined to comment.
Government of Haiti Signs Security Agreement With Mercenary Boss Erik Prince
Prince’s mercenaries in Latin America
Recently, Prince was involved in security operations in Guayaquil, Ecuador, in the company of the ministers of the Interior and Defense of Daniel Noboa’s government. Last year, he launched the Ya casi Venezuela campaign, seeking to raise funds to attempt a mercenary-led coup against the government of Nicolás Maduro.
The vice president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, complained of a plot involving the US oil giant ExxonMobil, the president of Guyana, and Erik Prince to attack an oil platform in the Essequibo, with the aim of justifying military actions against Venezuela.
Prince currently operates as a “security consultant” for US allies in Latin America, associating with destabilization attempts against governments that Washington considers “adversaries.”
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Dr. Louis-Georges Tin | State Of African Diaspora
In 2014, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, President-in-Office of the African Union gave a mandate to Louis-Georges Tin, chairperson of the CRAN [Representative Council of France’s Black Associations], to set up the African Diaspora, to “give substance” to the Sixth Region:
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Previously:
Venezuelan Opposition Prepares Coup, as HRW Pushes for Harsher Sanctions
Noboa Taps Blackwater’s Prince to Battle Ecuador’s Chaos
Haitian Government Hires the Mercenaries of a U.S. Security Contractor, but Questions Remain (Wesley Clark)
Head of SOUTHCOM on Haiti and trying to outcompete China in Latin America
Extras:
Tag: Erik Prince
Tag: Ya casi Venezuela
2020 Guyanese Election & Venezuela-Guyana Border Dispute
María Corina Machado is the female Javier Milei (aka US Puppet)
Front Organizations (Ford Foundation)
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 