I wonder what New Horizons 2011 humanitarian mission is (Haiti)

[EFerrari]

@USEmbassyHaiti US Embassy Haiti

Amb. Merten welcomes Task Force Bon Voizen to #Haiti for New Horizons 2011 humanitarian mission. @southcom @armysouth @lanationalguard
11 minutes ago via web

If you don't mind, I'm going to put this here so I remember to check it out today.

[EFerrari]

1. Here is a page describing the New Horizons Mission from 2010

7 August 2010

By Jessika Macias and Frank Rosa
Staff Writers, Department of State

Washington — Seven months after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake severely damaged Haiti’s capital city, Port-au-Prince, and the surrounding area, the need to rebuild the island nation continues.

The U.S. military, which provided rapid support in the earthquake’s immediate aftermath, is now supporting the reconstruction process through medical and engineering projects in a military exercise called “New Horizons.” Units from the Louisiana Army National Guard are providing humanitarian services to Haitians in an exercise that aims to continue U.S. military help for Haiti following the seven months of actions to support earthquake relief.

More than 2 million people were displaced by the January 12 earthquake and its aftershocks, and approximately 1.5 million still remain in relief camps. The earthquake destroyed or paralyzed the island nation’s center of government, commerce and culture, and killed about 230,000 of its citizens.

“The New Horizons mission shows the commitment between the United States and the people of Haiti,” said David Lindwall, the U.S. Embassy’s deputy chief of mission in Haiti. The international collaboration with the Task Force Kout Men effort also reflects how many helping hands are committed to the recovery of Haiti.

http://geneva.usmission.gov/2010/08/18/humanitarian-efforts-in-haiti/

[Bacchus39]

2. so you have your answer then n/t

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[Judi Lynn]

3. Thanks for posting this information. Hope their help will go a long way.

Reinforced, earthquake-resistant buildings are clearly helpful, aren't they?

Hope the effort will be as good in reality as it sounds on paper.

[rabs]

4. Related (Haiti)

So, who is president these days? Have been out of the loop on Haiti so was wondering if Sweet Micky had been inaugurated.

How about the legislative results, theyt been confirmed? Last I heard was that hil's U.S. Embassy was all in a tizzy because 17 or so Preval party legislators had won, giving the opposition a majority in Congress.

[rabs]

5. Ran across the 2011 mission

(edit, fixing typo)

Will be in El Salvador, Suriname, DR and Haiti. Seems the missions began in Feb. of this year and run until Sept.

http://www.southcom.mil/AppsSC/factFiles.php?id=166

U.S. military personnel will deploy to the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti and Suriname to conduct comprehensive humanitarian civic assistance exercises from February through September 2011. As part of the Beyond the Horizon & New Horizons exercise programs, troops specializing in engineering, construction and health care will provide much needed services to communities in need while receiving valuable deployment training and building important relationships with partner nations. Exercises in each nation will last several months.

[Judi Lynn]

6. Incredible seeing them setting up the next bunch of operations all over again, isn't it?

They clearly never give up. Never. I hope the people of Latin America won't give up, either. It's THEIR region, for christ's sake.

http://mappery.com.nyud.net:8090/maps/Central-American-and-Caribbean-Islands-Map.jpg
I just read a few minutes ago that Plan Colombia was officially announced as a program which would last five years. That's a hot one, isn't it?

http://media.maps.com.nyud.net:8090/magellan/Images/USAH020-H.gif

[Peace Patriot]

7. Good point! Same "circle the wagons" region that they're circling the wagons in now--

--getting boots on the ground, setting up "forward operating locations," building new military bases (in Colombia, in Honduras) fixing elections, buying lackey leaders, deploying the 4th Fleet, imposing U.S. "free trade for the rich" and eyeing that fabulously oil-rich northern coast of Venezuela (TWICE the oil of Saudi Arabia--the biggest oil reserve on earth, according to the USGS). That's the new twist. The U.S. war machine is a thirsty beast--and corps who slake that thirst at the highest prices they can charge are running U.S. foreign policy and have no qualms whatsoever about slaughtering hundreds of thousands of people to control their oil.

These are not benign Pentagon humanitarian missions AT ALL. These are ruses and bribes--the "worm your way in" phase of a long term plan to dominate and exploit this region (Central America/the Caribbean), to "divide and conquer" it from South America where there is a stronger democracy and sovereignty movement and to use it as a launching pad for aggression when the time is right, just like they did in the 1980s.

It is no accident that the USAID only funds rightwing groups in Latin America. The goal is to install rightwing regimes everywhere, one way or another. But the leftist democracy movement that has swept Latin America--with leftist governments elected in Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Uruguay, Paraguay, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras (until the U.S.-supported coup in 2009) is a big stumbling block. Due to U.S. disrepute and involvement in the Honduran coup, our transglobal corporate/war profiteer rulers have to sidle their way in with bait like this: U.S. soldiers building infrastructure--while Bill Clinton and Bush Jr sit on the $9 billion in international aid money to force Haitians to bend to the U.S. will on elections, no doubt reserving it for U.S. 'contractors.' The Pentagon builds the roads and water systems, etc., and then private 'contractors and transglobal corporations take it over.

No wonder they've kept 1.5 MILLION people living under tarps--not even in tents! under tarps. All the better to steal their country from them!

I am quite worried about El Salvador, also, as a receiver of this military aid bait. I know that their leftist government is in a dicey position--sitting right next door to the Honduran coup d'etat, and I imagine that they have been threatened and bullied by the U.S. In fact, it's pretty clear that they have been. Soon after the Honduran coup, El Salvador's leftist government withdrew its application to join ALBA--the Venezuela/Cuba organized barter trade group that was so beneficial to Honduras (and one of the reasons for that U.S.-supported coup). Now El Salvador is inviting U.S. boots in. Not a good sign.