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PressTV
18 Jan 2010
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has accused the United States of taking advantage of the deadly earthquake in Haiti to occupy the Caribbean country.
Chavez on Sunday scoffed Washington’s move to send thousands of American soldiers to Haiti, describing them as “Marines armed as if they were going to war.”
“There is not a shortage of guns there, my God. Doctors, medicine, fuel, field hospitals, that’s what the United States should send,” Chavez said on his weekly television show.
“They are occupying Haiti undercover,” he warned.
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[also posted on Ansel Herz: Earthquake Immediate Aftermath On the Ground + The Morning After – The Haitian People Have Mobilized]
Ortega warns of US deployment in Haiti
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega says that the United States has taken advantage of the massive quake in Haiti and deployed troops in the country.“What is happening in Haiti seriously concerns me as US troops have already taken control of the airport,” Ortega said on Saturday.
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see
A lootin’ an’ a burnin’? By William Bowles
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The Right Testicle of Hell: History of a Haitian Holocaust by Greg Palast
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Chavez and Ortega are calling this correctly. The US has no business sending such a large contingency of troopos to Haiti. It can’t be seen as anything else but an occupation.