Update on the Haitian president’s assassination
I fully expected some of Haiti’s assassinated president Moise’s security guards to be implicated in his killing, and that seems to be the case:
One of Moïse’s top security officials was placed under arrest Tuesday on suspicion of involvement.
But I have to say I didn’t see this coming:
Haitian police leveled new accusations against a former Supreme Court judge who is on the lam in connection with the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse.
Wendelle Coq-Thelot allegedly met with Colombian mercenaries who are accused of murdering the leader, police said Friday.
An arrest warrant was issued for Coq-Thelot earlier this week, but the former judge has not been located by authorities. She had been ousted by Moïse in February amid fears she was planning a coup against him.
Colombian hitmen and Haitian-Americans arrested in connection with the slaying told investigators they had met with Coq-Thelot before the raid, which plunged the West’s poorest country further into chaos.
So, a female ex-Supreme Court judge is the primary suspect for ordering the hit. Chaos, indeed.
And of course, who knows whether any of these people are guilty, or just scapegoats? Why would anyone trust the investigation system to be fair?
[NOTE: I first wrote about Moise’s assassination in this post on July 7th.]
Gee. Wendelle Coq-Thelot is the Haitian Nancy Pelosi !
More like the Haitian Elena Kagan.
In the last decade, more than thirteen billion dollars (both from the U.S. and from various international organizations) have poured into Haiti with little improvement resulting from such a large investment. Previously, in the 1990s, several billion dollars had already been granted, also with little to show for such largesse. How much longer will anyone be able to argue that the countless problems of this impoverished nation can be alleviated or even partially fixed through the intervention (and the funds) of outsiders?
j e I think “poured through” Haiti would be more accurate.
In the last decade, more than thirteen billion dollars (both from the U.S. and from various international organizations)
The World Bank isn’t reporting data on ODA to Haiti. Where did you get this datum?
How much longer will anyone be able to argue that the countless problems of this impoverished nation can be alleviated or even partially fixed through the intervention (and the funds) of outsiders?
What are you trying to accomplish? The country had a devastating earthquake in 2010. Some outside aid was to meet extraordinary reconstruction and relief expenses.
As for mundane life in Haiti, there are a number of things you can consider: primary schooling, agricultural extension, training for civil servants, efforts to build a property registry, efforts to build a court system.
“Further into chaos”??
Haiti is a garbage can full of rot. It cannot be saved from itself.
I refer you to Charles Murray’s recent book, Facing Reality, which summarizes 40-50 years of data: the average IQ of African-Americans is 85, which is a huge difference from the average of 100; in Haiti the average may be lower, since it has been inbred for 2 centuries.
Wiki observes,”While IQ is more strongly correlated with reasoning and less so with motor function, IQ-test scores predict performance ratings in all occupations.”
85 is one standard deviation below the US average of 100. These people are bottom-dwellers, and there is nothing that can change that, not the $13 billion poured into Haiti in recent years, not education, not easy admissions into Harvard; nothing. Nothing. Not even pretense!
Haiti is West Africa transplanted into the Caribbean.
Nothing about Haiti would shock me. I have lived in Africa and in Haiti. Trust me that nearly every African (Somalis and Yemenis are the exceptions) would be be appalled and disgusted at the barbarity of Haiti.
Poor pre and post natal nutrition also cost cognitive development And poverty provides the lousy nutrition.
Interesting that the mercenaries that killed the president were Colombian. Toward the end of the Iraq war a lot of PMCs recruited from South America. I believe the Saudi’s hired Colombian mercs in Yemen.
Matthew: Where have you been? You still believe everything that is reported? Maybe the doers were Haitians, and Colombians are easy to blame. They cannot hide in Haitian blackness. God help them in the Haitian prisons.
Haiti is a garbage can full of rot. It cannot be saved from itself.
Sentimental aren’t you?
I refer you to Charles Murray’s recent book,
If you want to understand why Haiti is Haiti and Barbados is Barbados, biology doesn’t get you very far.
@Cicero:
If you’re a Right Tail Machiavellian are you going to hire your retarded fellow countrymen or some smarter Spics with a track record?
Dunno how noticeable it is in the USA because you’re deluged in the Diversity… but out here in Greater Chinkydom and SE Asia you notice the ones who keep showing up but stick out like the proverbial Dog’s D$%^ (now that’s how Ozzy Man would really talk down at the pub) amongst very different races — and the five recurring no-longer-surprised to see *them* here themes wherever I’ve lived are:
(1) Russian Mafia.
(2) Israeli Mafia (Yes, Virginia, there is an Israeli Underbelly.)
(3) Iranian Mafia. The Shifty Iranian is a now time-worn trope in Japan. In Tokyo and Bangkok you get the Israeli Mafia and the Iranian Mafia and those who use these as cover for deeper stuff eyeing each other off warily whilst they compete in roughly the same rackets.
(4) North Koreans — sometimes it gets hilarious. In Jakarta the North and South Korean secret service ran restaurants practically across the road from each other.
(5) Tada! Colombians. Drugs, prostitution, diamond robberies (huge specialty), Five Star Hotel Room thefts, and one would imagine out of town hits.
Globalism is real. Probably more real where the shifty stuff is concerned. Hiring a bunch of Colombians would be about the level of the Haitian ‘Elite’ — they don’t bat in the big leagues.
Jared Diamond’s book “Collapse” compares Haiti and the Dominican Republic, on the same island, to investigate why the former country essentially “collapsed” after independence, and the latter did not.
Too long to summarize, but a lot had to do with colonial pre-conditions, demographics, and how their leaders (both pretty evil “strongmen”) dealt differently with the usual environmental degradation (that’s a big cause of trouble in all collapsed societies).
These articles showed up in my search for such a summary.
I have no expertise for vetting any of them, but they do make interesting reading if you are interested in how people can have totally different perspectives on what should be the objective facts of history.
https://business.time.com/2010/01/14/jared-diamonds-haiti-story/
https://timothyschwartzhaiti.com/an-open-critique-of-jared-diamonds-collapse-haiti-and-dr/
https://nacla.org/blog/2012/8/20/haiti-jared-diamond-hasnt-done-his-homework
Art Deco:
Biology seems to get me a lot farther than it does you.
Haiti has been 100 % black and inbred (genetically undiluted) since its rebellion ca. 1800. Basically, no one has migrated to Haiti for over 200 years now. Cast your mind back to “Papa Doc” Duvalier and his voodoo practices. Not socially elevating!
Barbados is 90% Afro-Caribbean, with genetic dilution that has been ongoing for a long time. It also had the social benefits of being an English colony since the early 1600s.
Cicero:
The demographics of Haiti:
“Black Creole” is defined as having full or partial sub-Saharan ancestry.
Demographics of Barbados:
Not an enormous amont of difference there between the racial composition of the 2 countries.
In addition, far greater numbers of people have left Haiti for the US than have left Barbados for the US (see this). That means that far more of the group of Haitians with more drive (and probably more intelligence) have left Haiti than have left Barbados (and a comparable number of people have not gone to the UK from Barbados, either). So there’s been a bigger drain from Haiti of the people who are probably more enterprising and more intelligent.
There are plenty of other differences between the two countries than race, and the racial differences are small. One of those differences of course is Barbados’ history as a British colony (which you do allude to) vs. Haiti’s far more troubled history with the French and then with early independence under bloody despots.
It is a tremendous stretch to try to attribute the differences between the two countries to any tiny racial differences between them.
Don’t confuse race with the genetics of the “founder” population.
I read that the majority of people transferred into the Atlantic Slave Trade were “non-productive” discards. Those may have exibited some combination of hostility, uncooperativeness, and an inability to sustain effort on a project/job. There seemed to be a smaller number of “normies” who were “kidnapped” and then sold as slaves. I don’t think that “intelligence” mattered all that much. Most jobs don’t require all that much “intelligence”. Recent African immigrants seem to do “OK” in education and employment. In our metro, there are several “African American” communities/municipalities with a variety of intelligence/professional levels (as judged by car[s], home value, etc) with minimal levels of crime that have a sense of “community” that seems to be absent “downtown”.
I have to wonder if those are descendants of the “normies”, or if some of those discarded have managed to escape a genetic burden. Similarly, I would want to know the condition of the founder population in Haiti and the Barbados. In a number of locations, “Maroons” were able to escape slavery and establish long-lasting, functional communities. Some are different. It isn’t just “race”.
Race:
https://vdare.com/articles/we-are-building-society-on-a-delusion-a-race-realism-primer
The lengths people will go to to convince themselves that racial IQ, criminality, and other personality dimension differences don’t exist never ceases to amaze me.
Zaphod:
You really really don’t get it. I have met very few people except those on the far far left, or those fully buying into CRT (a minority of people I know even among Democrats), who would say that there are no differences between the races on IQ, criminality, and a host of other things. So it’s a strawman argument that you are setting up.
The real questions are what causes the differences (how much of the variance can be explained by different factors), whether some of them can be changed by culture, and whether the differences that might remain are large enough to matter and in what way they matter.
I have read a great deal of the literature on this subject on both sides of the nature/nurture question, for decades and decades. I am not a statistician but I have taken graduate courses in statistics and have a fairly good understanding of the basics, so I’m equipped to look at a lot of the research as well. I have not seen anything that convinces me that culture is not by far the biggest determinant of the differences that matter (I’m not talking about basketball or sprinting here). Geography also plays a huge role (there was a discussion of that recently regarding Africa in another threat).
The most impressive thinker on the subject that I’ve found is Thomas Sowell, who’s written several books, many articles, and given many talks on the subject.