Posted on 02/12/2010 12:10:09 PM PST by GovernmentShrinker
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The police in El Salvador have begun an investigation into whether a man suspected of leading a trafficking ring involving Central American and Caribbean women and girls is also a legal adviser to the Americans charged with trying to take 33 children out of Haiti without permission. . . . Judge Saint-Vil also said he thought that the photo of the trafficking suspect in a Salvadoran police file appeared to be the same man he had met in court. He said he intended to begin his own investigation into whether a trafficking suspect had been working with the Americans detained in Haiti. . . . The judge said he would request assistance from the Department of Homeland Security to look into Mr. Puello’s background. . . . An Interpol arrest warrant has been issued for someone named Jorge Anibal Torres Puello. . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
And note that the e-mail doesn’t say “these people were “asked” to pay $300/head for the paperwork that was requested”. It says “they were asked to pay $300 a head for the children to cross the border”. Big difference. There’s not any evidence at all that anyone with authority to provide the legally required documentation for these children to be taken out of the country, ever offered to provide it at any price. Somebody at the border offered to let them cross in spite of not having the legally required paperwork, as long as the somebody got a big wad of cash.
......crickets chirping.........
Darlin’ sometimes I know when to stop going round in circles. The fact is we don’t have the whole story.
Leni
Thanks...some day I’ll finish it...
Yes, the cricket-chirping is pretty deafening.
Wanted in 4 countries for trafficking and making counterfeit documents.
Selling children is one way to get out of debt......Thank God they were stopped at the border.
Check out this WSJ article (swallow any liquid in your mouth before reading, for the welfare of your keyboard):
Dominican Probed In Missionary Case Admits Prior Charges
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703562404575067922929176204.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
“”Mr. Puello said the alien smuggling charge arose when he was investigating alien trafficking routes undercover for the U.S. “I was working for the Department of Homeland Security investigating people smuggling – Pakistanis, Moroccans, Costa Ricans,” said Mr. Puello, “so they could stop them and put them in prison on the U.S. side of the border.””
Helpfully, “U.S. officials pointed out that the department didn’t exist at the time Mr. Puello allegedly committed his alien smuggling offense.”
Ping to the latest installment in the Haitian missionary saga, as their wanted-in-several-countries child-trafficking now-ex-”lawyer” attempts to *explain* all these misunderstandings about his really-totally-innocent past, to the media, by phone, from an undisclosed location, in phone calls set up by his Mama, who apparently left her home in Florida one step ahead of U.S. federal agents who popped in there over the weekend, and is now in the Dominican Republican playing PR agent for her wayward son.
Actually, if you read the AP article, he’s not Jewish. He was raised Catholic and there’s no evidence that he ever converted to Judaism in a way recognized by any branch of Judaism. He just started pretending to be Jewish. Who knows why? Part of some profit-making scam? Figured it would make his claim to be a lawyer more believable? Part of his effort to assume a new identity so as to evade the various law enforcement agencies around the world that have been looking for him? Maybe all of the above.
I have actually heard of this guy before and seen him claim to be Jewish and seen the name which I had never heard of as a latino Jewish surname like Navarro or Hinojosa ...come to think of it
I guess a yarmulke is supposed to grant credibilty in most places outside Rockland county or New Jersey where rabbis go down just like anyone else
plus far and away the biggest power in Haiti is a fellow named Bigio who is Jewish and richest man there and the ultimate power broker and who is why Israel is so big a presence in Haiti...his home above Petionville was the Israel consul during my time there 20 years ago now...
a wicked web we weave,
when we endeavor,
to deceive.
From what I understand, we have thousands of metal containers vessels sitting around, because it was too expensive to send them back to China.
A lot of sustainable engineering has been done on how to convert these containers into living spaces.
They are solid metal, heavy, and can easily be welded together and secured to concrete bases, to withstand hurricane-force winds.
Has anybody looked into spending a few million dollars on using these containers and some American ingenuity to make better shelters than tarps and duct tape?
I will be down there doing a capabilities assessment very soon, by eom if PAP opens as scheduled. I did learn yesterday that the port facilities in PAP are pretty much nonexistent at this point.
I will be checking Jacmel myself. I know that there is some level of capability there but it's a small harbor to begin with. I don't know if it can handle delivery, off-loading, storage, distribution and the construction needed to secure the containers prior to the onset of the hurricane season (August). The rainy season starts in two weeks.
Our intel sources on the ground tell us that everything is needed, therefore everything will be welcomed and used.
My wife (an environmental project manager specialized in water quality) is working on a large-scale water purification project that will take 6-12 months at least to put in place. I am more focused on the immediate, smaller needs.
I will add your idea to my list of efforts to be quickly evaluated. Thanks.
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