Jean-Bertrand Aristide person
also: Aristide of Haiti, Jean-Bernard Aristide of Haiti, Jean Bernard Aristide of Haiti, Aristide, Estides, Father Aristide, Jean Bertrand Aristide
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Claims (14)
Jimmy Carter installed
Jean-Bertrand Aristide host_asserted
“So the covert element that he had gotten rid of could another government, i.e. Haiti, and to get rid of Aristide and Jimmy Carter is the one that goes back and puts him back in office. You just can't make this shit up. All right. So he's in…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - PART 39 - _JIMMY CARTER & PANAMA CANAL_ - EP.372 @ 50:45
CIA tried_to_remove
Jean-Bertrand Aristide host_asserted
“And remember, Aristide is the guy the CIA doesn't like. They try to get him out of office more than once. Questions arose about the links between the CIA and the group of thugs and militia spearheading all of the violence. Insert shock face…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53) @ 13:43
Nancy Soderbergh scored
Jean-Bertrand Aristide book_quoted
“on Langley's face, telling a television audience the CIA had great relationships in Haiti. At the White House, Nancy Soderbergh of the NSC staff scored the Eriskeed profile a textbook case of politicalization of intelligence. Meanwhile, Mog…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53) @ 14:56
Joseph Michel François carried_out_attack
Jean-Bertrand Aristide host_asserted
“deposed what they consider a former priest. So there was all kinds of outside involvement. The new police chief that had been trained in the United States was the coup plotter. His name was Joseph Mikel Francois, F-R-A-N-C-O-I-S.…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Haiti @ 55:40
United States overthrew
Jean-Bertrand Aristide host_asserted
“national reconciliation, market economy, and the zeal that Washington would like to see in the leaders of developing nations, unquote. Aristide returned to Haiti in October 1994, three years and two weeks after being deposed. The U.S. might…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Haiti @ 1:09:12
United States overthrew
Jean-Bertrand Aristide host_asserted
“That's the pattern that has been established in all of these overthrows. And so Aristide's not long in office again before there was U.S. intervention again. And so he was first president from 91 to 96. And then his second presidency, he wa…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Haiti @ 1:09:59
United States overthrew
Jean-Bertrand Aristide host_asserted
“And, um, it creates the situation where you have a new coup. Um, and, um, basically Aristide is escorted out of the country. Um, and he is taken to an, um, eventually South America or South Africa. Sorry. That's what I have today. Um, as fa…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Haiti @ 1:12:57
Catholic Church targeted_for_regime_change
Jean-Bertrand Aristide host_asserted
“Yeah, yeah. And so they opposed Jean Bernard Aristide of Haiti because they couldn't, he was impeding them to do this trafficking. So that's a very interesting conversation. So we covered Haiti and Aristide was basically, everybody should k…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Italy Part 4 @ 1:23:55
Catholic Church removed_from_power
Jean-Bertrand Aristide host_asserted
“Neither the embassy nor Aristide himself at that time had expected Aristide to be a candidate. So he basically gets expelled from his church by the Vatican. And he was accused of inciting to hatred and violence and encouraging class struggl…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Haiti @ 43:44
CIA overthrew
Jean-Bertrand Aristide host_asserted
“He goes into a nonprofit with Gorbachev and they create the, in 1992, the Gorbachev Foundation. And then we find him on a trip to Haiti because it was him that was tasked with going back and putting Aristide back in as president after the C…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - PART 39 - _JIMMY CARTER & PANAMA CANAL_ - EP.372 @ 50:13
Ronald Reagan targeted_for_regime_change
Jean-Bertrand Aristide book_quoted
“for years and had become a target for doing so. And his activities evoked a very strong dislike for U.S. officials, including Ronald Reagan. Aristide later wrote that Ronald Reagan considered him a communist and that…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Haiti @ 37:47
United States installed
Jean-Bertrand Aristide host_asserted
“national reconciliation, market economy, and the zeal that Washington would like to see in the leaders of developing nations, unquote. Aristide returned to Haiti in October 1994, three years and two weeks after being deposed. The U.S. might…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Haiti @ 1:09:12
Andrew Young recruited
Jean-Bertrand Aristide host_asserted
“religious order, which is exactly what the other people were doing, not him. So now that they had finally succeeded, and in October, he became a candidate of a loose coalition of reformist parties. On the eve of the election, the former U.S…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Haiti @ 44:13
CIA overthrew
Jean-Bertrand Aristide host_asserted
“He works with Haiti after the failed CIA coup and all of the unrest there to bring Aristide back into his presidency after the CIA had overthrown him. And in 1994, he was in Bosnia trying to negotiate a ceasefire there. In 95, he's in Afric…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner President Jimmy Carter in review @ 27:30
Mentions (34)
▶ 37:17
judicially, educationally, economically, as a basket case. Jean Bertrand Aristide was a very charismatic priest that had a huge following in the poorer sections of Haiti. He traveled around speaking out against repression.…
▶ 37:47
for years and had become a target for doing so. And his activities evoked a very strong dislike for U.S. officials, including Ronald Reagan. Aristide later wrote that Ronald Reagan considered him a communist and that…
▶ 38:13
Elliott Abrams, who at the time was the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, saw fit to attack Aristide while praising the Haitian government in a letter to Time magazine during the election campaign. The Catholic priest…
▶ 39:10
according to the author blended the teachings of christ with inspiring the poor to organize and resist oppression when asked why the cia might have sought to oppose aristide…
▶ 39:50
a boycott of the elections that was coming up and saying that the army is our first enemy. The CIA, on the other hand, was basically funding many of the candidates. The agency later insisted that the purpose in funding them had not been to …
▶ 40:19
helping some candidates who didn't have enough money. However, not a single candidate that they helped that didn't have enough money had any backing from Aristide at all. Those people were completely boycotted. The CIA was involved in a ran…
▶ 41:19
even after Aristide's final departure. And as I've said multiple times, the fact that we've uncovered their involvement in so many elections over the entire world, over decades and decades since their beginning, you know that if there's a c…
▶ 43:44
Neither the embassy nor Aristide himself at that time had expected Aristide to be a candidate. So he basically gets expelled from his church by the Vatican. And he was accused of inciting to hatred and violence and encouraging class struggl…
▶ 44:13
religious order, which is exactly what the other people were doing, not him. So now that they had finally succeeded, and in October, he became a candidate of a loose coalition of reformist parties. On the eve of the election, the former U.S…
▶ 44:43
and funded candidate as president should he win. Isn't that what they were trying to do with Trump? That's weird. Must be another pattern. Young reportedly said that there was fear that if Aristide lost, his followers would get out on the s…
▶ 45:15
Despite a campaign marred by terror and intimidation, nearly 1,000 UN observers and the Organization of American States observed that it was basically a fair election in which Aristide was victorious with a 67.5% vote, which is huge. People…
▶ 45:41
So to get 67% when you're running against 10 other people is crazy. Because of his outspoken and uncompromising opposition to the corruption, he was very outspoken about the bourgeoisie component of the elite there and them being in bed wit…
▶ 46:10
That message resonated. And here's a quote from the Washington Post. Proclaiming a political revolution, Aristide, 37 years old, has injected a spirit of hope and honesty into the affairs of government, a radical departure after decades of …
▶ 46:38
Declaring that his $10,000 a monthly salary is not just a scandal but a crime, Aristide announced on television that he would donate it to charity. Dang, that sounds familiar too. No wonder they hated this guy. The Catholic priest had long …
▶ 47:07
He was also very suspicious of foreign quote-unquote aid winding up in the pockets of the elite. Since 1980, this amounted to $200 million a year, and these were the same 10 years during which the per capita income of the Haitian people was…
▶ 48:38
quote from Aristide. I have often been criticized for lacking a program, or at least for imprecision in that regard. Was it for lack of time? A poor excuse. In fact, the people had their own program. Dignity, transparent simplicity, partici…
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So, seriously hampered by the absence in Haiti of a strong traditional counterbalance to what had been imposed from the outside, there was a gridlock in Parliament and constitutionally. They had put more power in the Parliament than in the …
▶ 50:02
And so basically Aristide was unable to get much of his legislation enacted. However, he did set up programs for literacy, public health, and agrarian reform, which is the redistribution of farmlands. And oh, by the way, United Fruit is in …
▶ 51:01
He also increased the feeling of security among the population by basically getting rid of the paramilitary thugs that we had installed and was in the process of eliminating institutional crime via these. They had set up somewhat of a syste…
▶ 51:31
to subvert the government and repress the people. So he was getting rid of them too. And once he was in office, though not the uncompromising revolutionary firebrand that the U.S. had made him out to be, Aristide frequently angered his oppo…
▶ 52:02
He also was putting an end to drug smuggling and drug trafficking through his country, which had to really piss off the CIA. The elite there, the wealthy civilians, had grouped themselves into basically accepting any immorality as long as i…
▶ 52:27
They did not care much for Aristide's agenda, whereby they would have to pay more taxes and share the bounty that they had by creating jobs for the poor people and reinvesting their profits locally instead of taking all of their money and i…
▶ 52:56
had encouraged foreigners to come and invest in Haiti. He also discharged some 2,000 government workers, which of course thrilled the International Monetary Fund and some foreign donors, thinking that they were going to finally clean up, an…
▶ 53:23
income businesses that you might find here that may want to put a satellite office there. Jean Aristide served less than eight months as the Haitian president before being deposed in a 29 September 1991 military coup.…
▶ 56:34
was busy in Haiti. It gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to several civic groups, which, by the way, is what they're doing right now in Haiti, too. Haitian Center for the Defense of Rights and Freedom, which was headed by Jean-Jacques Ho…
▶ 1:21:36
Perhaps of topic, I don't know. But when you were talking, besides everything what you exposed today, is the real mood that we had, that my family had in those times. But when you were talking about the Vatican, it came up to my mind Aristi…
▶ 1:22:04
when you told us that the Vatican was opposing him. And I thought now it's clear why they were opposing him. But my question is, were they opposing him before 91 or after 91? Because in the 90s, everything, before already, but everything wa…
▶ 1:23:55
Yeah, yeah. And so they opposed Jean Bernard Aristide of Haiti because they couldn't, he was impeding them to do this trafficking. So that's a very interesting conversation. So we covered Haiti and Aristide was basically, everybody should k…
▶ 1:24:25
And the Vatican turned their back on him and disowned him. And because he refused to be owned by the international syndicate and allow the people in his country to be raped and murdered by the international syndicate and their resources, wh…
▶ 50:13
He goes into a nonprofit with Gorbachev and they create the, in 1992, the Gorbachev Foundation. And then we find him on a trip to Haiti because it was him that was tasked with going back and putting Aristide back in as president after the C…
▶ 27:30
He works with Haiti after the failed CIA coup and all of the unrest there to bring Aristide back into his presidency after the CIA had overthrown him. And in 1994, he was in Bosnia trying to negotiate a ceasefire there. In 95, he's in Afric…
▶ 13:15
at Langley when controversy broke out over the CIA in Haiti. Troubles on that Caribbean island had been brewing for months. In fact, Americans trapped in the dish at Mogadishu consoled themselves by listening to the news coming in from Hait…
▶ 13:43
And remember, Aristide is the guy the CIA doesn't like. They try to get him out of office more than once. Questions arose about the links between the CIA and the group of thugs and militia spearheading all of the violence. Insert shock face…
▶ 14:22
Then Brian Lattell, a senior CIA analyst, briefed Congress on the agency's psychological profile of Aristide, noting that he was mentally unstable. We've heard that before. No one could confirm. They even floated a rumor that he had been a …