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Did you know? Samir Handal was traveling with Haitian passport, a Jordanian passport and a Palestinian travel document when he was arrested in Istanbul Turkey.

The man is filthy rich in Haiti, he is considered a "suspect of great interest" in the July 7th assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moise and he is proof that these people can do whatever they want in Haiti to enrich themselves, including assassinate the president, and as soon as the s*** hits the fan they can escape and go live there other lives until Haitians forget and then deck on back to do the country more harm.

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I failed to report to you that Samir Handal, a rich businessman from Haiti, was arrested and Istanbul Turkey Monday for his involvement in the July assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moise.

This arrest came after Haitian foreign minister Claude Joseph contacted his Turkish counterpart, Mevlut Cavusoglu, to alert him that the Samir Handal, is suspect of great interest, was on a plane from United States and traveling through turkey to Jordan.

Samir Handal has been held in Istanbul after court officials issued a 40-day custody order, the Associated Press reported.

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Former Haitian president Michel martelly is in the hospital in South Florida diagnosed with prostate cancer.

The ex-president is currently hospitalized at Mercy Hospital in Coconut Grove according to a message posted on social media by Debas on Tuesday November 16th 2021.

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Haiti's National Palace was under attack mid-day Wednesday, October 10th 2021.

A group of armed gunman decided to attack the palace. For what reason, we still don't know.

Gunshots were heard sporadically around the perimeter of the palace.

USGPN, the security unit of the National Palace had to stand guard wild BOID, another special police unit drove the bad guys away.

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Knowing the truth about the assassination of President Jovenel Moise will solve a really big problem in regards to the dilemas that Haiti has been facing over the years, Joverlein Moise, the son of the assassinated president said.

The young man seems to believe that the same group of people who assassinated his father, president Jovenel Moise, have been slowly bringing our country Haiti to its knees for decades.

In an interview to "Le Point" on Television Metropole early November 2021, Joverlein Moise said the following to journalist Wendell Theodore:

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Dominican president Lewis Abinader continues to show his anger towards Haiti and the Haitian people. In his latest decision, he has decided to bar illegal immigrants in the Dominican Republic, mainly Haitians, from accessing public hospitals.

This is his second wave of decisions ever since foreign minister Claude Joseph made a declaration stating that both Haiti and the Dominican Republic have their own problems with banditism that they are dealing with.

President Luis Abinader gets mad, he suspends visas for Haitian students studying in the Dominican Republic

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RNDDH is a political party in Haiti, not an organization for human rights, Barbecue of the G-9 said

Accused of being a gang leader, the self-proclaimed revolutionary man Jimmy Cberisier, alias Barbecue, accused all RNDDH led by Pierre Esperance or being a political party instead of what everyone believes it to be, a human rights organization.

"If RNDDH was a human rights organization, they would be fighting for the rights and the living conditions of these people," Barbecue said while speaking to the international media in the heart of Cite Soley where the organization accused him of holding a massacre on behalf of the government.

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"They call me a gang leader, they call me a bandit but I am ready to take on Prime Minister Ariel Henry to save the people, Jimmy Cherisier alias Barbecue said to the Haitian and international media who followed him into Cite Soley on November 3rd 2021.

Watch the video below as Barbecue addresses the media, national and international, stating that the way the country is going can not continue.

After his address,the spokesman for the G-9 Family & Ally gang, as they called him, took the media into Cite Soleil were Haitians are living in really terrible living conditions.

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Dominican president Luis Abinader has decided to suspend the visa renewal program for Haitian students on Dominican territory to show how mad he is about a tweet from Haiti foreign minister Claude Joseph.

Just because Haitian foreign minister Claude Joseph reminded president Abinader that there are crimes happening in Dominican Republic just as they are crimes happening in Haiti, the Dominican president took it out on the poor Haitian students.

"What is being said is that there will be no automatic renewal and that must be verified because I have to protect this country," the president said at a press conference.

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Haiti is in reality TV mode, all our problems are right out front for everyone to see. Can we compare ourselves to the Dominican Republic who is promoting tourism and hiding the fact that their country is infested with crime and corruption?

The Dominican Republic is in the process of nation-building.

Haiti, unfortunately, is in self-destruct mode.

That being said, anyone who's lived in the Dominican Republic knows that they are a lot of criminal activities happening on the other side of the island. The Dominican Republic's governing body does a great job at keeping the news local instead of on international news pages of the Washington Post and the New York Times like Haiti is doing so well right now.

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