Satanic Gangs Destroy Farms, Starve Haitians in Artibonite Valley

Dec. 31—Murderous paramilitary drug gangs deployed in Haiti’s Artibonite Valley, the country’s most fertile agricultural region, are starving the population, attacking farm communities, and driving farmers off the land, destroying their crops, animals, and homes. In early December, reported the Miami Herald on Dec. 17, the Gran Grif gang forced more than 11,000 people to abandon their homes and farms. For weeks earlier, in an attempt to expand its territorial hold, the gang targeted several rural communities in the Lower Artibonite region, aiming to expand its control to the port city of St. Marc. The brutal gangs work as part of drug-running syndicates, controlled by London’s Dope, Inc. apparatus.

Wanton destruction continued in other parts of the valley, during which the rice-growing region of Verette came under armed attack, and homes and agricultural storage units were burned to the ground. This is occurring in a country where 6 million of Haiti’s 11 million inhabitants are already starving, without sufficient food. At least 1.5 million Haitians are displaced, having been driven from their urban communities by urban drug gangs; they now mostly reside in crowded shelters with inadequate food, sanitation, or medical care.

The significance of the Artibonite Valley is not just its fertility and agricultural potential. Under President Franklin Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor Policy in the 1930s, and subsequently under the auspices of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), founded in 1942 by U.S. Vice President Henry Wallace, the Artibonite Valley was selected as the site of a huge development project, which allowed Haiti to become self-sufficient in food production. Roosevelt also promoted the project to erect the Péligre Dam in the Artibonite Valley, built later in the 1950s as part of the same IICA development project.

With the potential for modernizing this region of Haiti through flood control, abundant electric power generation, and crop irrigation, the project became known as Haiti’s “valley of hope,” and a “little TVA” after the Tennessee Valley Authority project of electrification and flood control which the Roosevelt administration implemented, and which led to the stunning modernization and transformation of ten U.S. states. The Artibonite project offered hope and optimism to the valley’s residents and to Haitians in general.

Over the years, as maintenance of the Péligre Dam was neglected and Haiti’s development was shoved to one side by international “adjustment policies” imposed by the IMF, World Bank, and others of their ilk, agricultural production in the Artibonite declined in volume, but was still a source of subsistence farming or profit for those who could transport produce to market in Port-au-Prince. But today, gangs block all access to roads in and out of the capital.