U.S. State Dept. Buys Armored Trucks for Haitian Police

The weapons have a value of $1.9 million, reported Alfred De Montesquiou of the Associated Press (article available at Lancaster Online), and are in addition to 2,600 used firearms U.S. officials acknowledged giving to the Haitian National Police last year.

And on July 29, the World Bank announced a $38 million grant -- not a loan, a $38 million grant -- to the coup government of Haiti.  This follows the "International Donors Conference on Haiti" in Washington, D.C., last month, co-hosted by the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the United Nations, and the European Commission.

The Bank's web page on Haiti begins:

For nearly two decades, Haiti has struggled to emerge from a cycle of internal conflicts that have devastated its economy and inflicted severe hardship on its population.

The nations represented by the institutions at the International Donor Conference, led by the United States, France, and Canada, withheld all aid or even loans from an elected government of Haiti that sought to be a champion of the poor majority.  An armed invasion hosted from the U.S.-dominated Dominican Republic threatened this popularly elected but economically weakened government, and representatives of the United States government carried out the coup d'etat itself.  Now the world of international aid and loans, given by governments of rich countries without the knowledge, let alone understanding, of their citizens; a United Nations occupation force led by wanna-be world power Brazil; and guns and armored vehicles are all the rewards of an unelected, illegitimate, violent, oppressive, and intrinsically corrupt government eager to do the bidding of power.

Some bankers and administrants for the extremely rich, not to mention their masters themselves, need to have some so-called internal conflicts shoved back down their throats.