During the 2010 election, the US State Department had made comments like Celestin “was too close to [Venezuelan President Hugo] Chavez.” The US government took it upon itself to deny democracy to Haitians because they had voted for a Chavez ally to lead them. Well, Hugo Chavez is no longer an issue, nor is the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, which just handed Chavez protégé President Nicolas Maduro a crippling blow in Parliamentary elections on December 10, 2015.
“The US-backed Michel Martelly, an entertainer known onstage as ‘Sweet Mickey’ went on to ‘win’ the Haitian election.”
Meanwhile, it was later revealed that Secretary Clinton had awarded, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) a $100,000 donation to an organization that supported Clinton’s choice for President, Martelly. After his inauguration, one of Martelly’s favorite slogans was “Haiti is open for business.” For the then-Secretary of State that proved to be an understatement. First, there was the revelation that Tony Rodham, the Secretary’s brother, was awarded a contract to mine Haitian gold. Tony Rodham has no special insights into gold mining except that he is Hillary Clinton’s brother.
Moreover, the Haitians have refused to mine for more gold because they have steadfastly demanded the return of their gold bullion, taken for “safe keeping” by the US in 1915. The US militarily occupied Haiti until 1934, but maintained economic control over the country. It is this economic control over Haitian resources that is at the center of the Haitian struggle for self-determination. Now, Secretary Clinton is running for President of the United States, but has yet to answer the question of how her brother came to gain a gold mining contract in Haiti during her tenure at the State Department. Her official answer is that she doesn’t know.
More recently, another revelation has come to light of the Clinton Foundation having a for-profit peanut business in Haiti. Acceso Peanut Enterprise Corporation, known as Acceso Haiti, is a project of the Clinton Foundation and Canadian mining magnate, Frank Giustra. Candidate Clinton has yet to be asked about her investments in Haiti that have spawned from the 2010 changed election results.
“Tony Rodham, the Secretary’s brother, was awarded a contract to mine Haitian gold.”
In addition to finding gold in peanuts, as “Sweet Mickey” is on his way out of the Haitian Presidency (the Haitian Constitution prohibits Presidents to succeed themselves), yet another Clinton Foundation donor was awarded a contract in Haiti. In October 2015, President Martelly awarded an Israeli company, HLSI, the right to secure Haiti’s land and sea borders.