Haiti Police Try to Break Blockade of Crucial Fuel Terminal

[Judi Lynn]

November 05, 2022 4:39 AM
Associated Press



A fuel terminal is seen from a plane in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Nov. 4, 2022.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI —
Haiti's National Police was fighting to remove a powerful gang that had surrounded a key fuel terminal in Port-au-Prince for almost two months, though it was not immediately clear Friday if the economically devastating blockade was fully lifted.

In a voicemail shared with The Associated Press on Friday, Police Chief Frantz Elbe congratulated officers involved in an operation to oust members of the G9 gang federation led by Jimmy Cherizier, a former police officer known as “Barbecue.” The gang had refused to budge as it demanded that Prime Minister Ariel Henry resign.

It wasn't immediately clear if anyone was killed during the gunfire that echoed across the capital Thursday or whether the gang had been completely cleared from the area.

“We won a fight, but it is not over,” Elbe said.

Spokespeople for the police and the office of Prime Minister Ariel Henry did not return messages for comment.

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[Eugene]

1. Haiti gang leader 'Barbecue' says fuel can start flowing in Haiti

Source: Miami Herald

Haiti gang leader ‘Barbecue’ says fuel can start flowing in Haiti

Jacqueline Charles
Sun, November 6, 2022 at 1:13 PM

The leader of a powerful gang alliance that has spent the past two months blocking the flow of fuel, food and drinking water in poverty-stricken Haiti declared its blockade of the country’s main oil terminal and seaports over Sunday.

“The drivers and employees of Terminal Varreux can descend without fear,” gang leader Jimmy Cherizier, the head of the G-9 Family and Allies, said in a video taped message Sunday where he began by giving the date as proof of its authenticity.

A former Haiti National Police officer turned gang leader who goes by the name “Barbecue,” Cherizier said he and his “Revolutionary Forces” have been closely following what’s being said about Haiti and the inability of the country’s political and civil society leaders to come together without “hypocrisy” for the good of the country. As a result, the alliance has decided to allow fuel to once more flow.

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Since Tuesday, the gang has been locked in a confrontation with specialized units of the Haitian national police, which finally took control of the Varreux terminal on Thursday. But even as Cherizier’s video message made the rounds Sunday, police were reporting heavy shootings in the area where the terminal is located. A number of gang members have reportedly died or been injured in the gun battle, police sources have said.

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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/haiti-gang-leader-barbecue-says-171350043.html

[Judi Lynn]

2. Life is unbearable in Haiti for the vast majority without these monstrous hardships added.

Jimmy Cherizier needs to be stopped and removed from daily Haitian life. He has abused power far too long. "Barbeque." I definitely don't want to know how he earned that nickname!

[malaise]

3. We are being fed pure BS about Haiti

That is all

[Judi Lynn]

4. Can't understand why they do it, either. It's such a small, suffering country.

US American corporations have loved using them for sweatshop labor, companies like Disney, big ones, and they barely pay them at all. The oligarchs stopped feeling shame so long ago.

I've often wondered what keeps the everyday citizens from simply going mad. Their lives are so full of pain, struggling, and hopelessness, it would seem.

[malaise]

5. Why?

They have never forgiven the African people of Haiti from winning their Revolution.
What's going on in Haiti are organized protests against the same Western Domination. There are more gangs here than there and way more violence.