Alix Didier Fils-Aimé

So the state subsidizes the land grab because they pay the peasants nothing for the land, builds a structure through loans that it takes out in order to invite and seduce capital, and then on top of it says to capital, "You don't even have to pay taxes, and I will keep minimum wages low for you," right, "in the process." So Haiti gets absolutely nothing out of the deal.

So when you're looking at Didier Fils-Aimé, right, representing the private sector, one of their biggest concerns was renewing the Help and Hope Act laws, right, that are essentially laws passed here in the United States that say that things coming out of Haiti, provided they use a certain percentage of US materials, like, will then not be subjected to being taxed by the United States for the products to come in, which means no taxes on the Haiti end, no taxes on the US end.

And this was one of the priorities of the private sector to ensure that Didier Fils-Aimé helped to lobby US Congress to renew these laws.

So the PHTK people, you know, activists on the ground have been every time that there's an administration, they just say, "Ah, that's PHTK one, PHTK two," right? Different versions of the same people with the exact same project, which is agribusiness, which is, right, manufacturing industries, particularly of clothing.

And at some point, tourism was a big ax of development for them.

Uh, but, um, even the human rights groups, most of which are, you know, uh, [chuckles] usually US-backed, have had to admit that seventy-six, three-quarters of the civilian deaths are being committed by the police, the mercenaries, and the, the, the government forces.

Alex Didier Fils-Aimé is a guy who the US basically put in literally with gunboats.

They sailed three US gunboats into Port-au-Prince Bay back in February seventh when the previous, uh, puppet council was expiring, and they put him in at the, at the tip of a, of a, of a gunship, a, a barrel.

And they, uh, had him invite in Erik Prince, who, uh, is getting paid millions of dollars.

I mean, Fils-Aimé is paying him something like twenty-three million from what we know.

The Haitian government paid him ninety-five million, uh, in addition.

I, I, I mean, he's making money hand over fist in there.