NO NEED TO INVADE HAITI: ARREST BIGIO AND MARTELLY IN

FLORIDA

By JAFRIKAYITI
Updated from original publish: September 1, 2023

For the past few years practical efforts to stop ongoing terrorism in Haiti
have been categorically avoided by US-led occupation forces and by
subservient regional/ Haitian politicians, alike.

Since our call for the effective arrest and prosecution of Gilbert Bigio and
Michel Martelly, two major warlords who reside in Miami, the following major
events have transpired:

A UN Expert Report confirmed how former US-backed President Michel

Martelly, white warlord Reynold Deeb and others are linked to specific gangs
of terrorists who are wrecking havoc in Haiti (19 October 2023 - see UN
investigative report
https://drive.google.com/file/d/14vi0r532sXGXk7BWv_dryktIjenKtgad/view ).

Haitian puppet leader Ariel Henry escaped to the US and was immediately
replaced by 10 others - a Prime Minister and a 9 member Transitional
Presidential Council (24 April 2024 - see link
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-68896323)
Deadly fratricidal clashes proceed, making more victims across Haiti,
including a coupe of Kenyan mercenary casualties (March 2025 - see link
https://youtu.be/pmGU5jXM4w0?feature=shared)

No arrest or serious threats have affected local terrorist leaders (Jimmy

"Babekyou" Chérizier", Johnson "Izo" André, Vitelhomme Innocent etc...) or
any of the major US-sheltered warlords (Martelly, Bigio, Deeb etc...). Instead,
major criminals appear absolutely emboldened by impunity and connections
they nurture with international partners/accomplices.

Shocking examples include: The Government of Canada which uses warlord

Reynold Deeb's property to evacuate citizens by helicopter (8 May 2024 -
see "Sanctioned Haitian praised by Canadian diplomat and RCMP" -
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/sanction-haitian-praised-diplomat-envoy-
1.7198615 ) and New-York based Kenneth Ives who faces the anger of
Haitian protestors whose countrymen are constantly victimized by his
terrorist protégé Jimmy Chérizier (12 April 2025 - see link
https://x.com/ErityeDesalin/status/1909565946768871655)

..........

As I type these paragraphs, US-armed terrorists are closing in on my native

neighbourhood of Kafoufèy, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Family members and
friends have reportedly scattered in panic, hoping to save their lives. As such
images and sounds of terror haunt the sleepless nights of 14 million Haitians
on the planet, I point to a recent note penned by Pamela White, former US
Ambassador to Haiti, who served during the reign of chief Parti Haitien Tèt
Kale (PHTK) bandits Michel Martelly and Laurent Lamothe. In her note,
Pamela White summons her friends and allies in Haiti’s infamous “private
sector” (code word for the warlords of Groupe Macaya, Haiti Chérie, the
BAMBAM, PHTK+) to hire mercenaries, by any means necessary, to fix the
“problem with Haiti”, once again. Her Op-Ed published in various outlets
around September 2022 was promptly followed by rumours, then
confirmation, of Kenyan police / mercenaries heading to Haiti.

“imagine the richest man of Canada was Joseph Mercidieu, a son of Haitian
immigrants who got caught importing illegal weapons for the most
murderous gangs of Montreal and Toronto. Would it suffice putting Mercidieu
on a list of individuals to be sanctioned with trade and travel restrictions“?
“No, he’d be in prison or out on a high bond!” answered Marie-Nadine to my
hypothetical quest, formulated on Twitter.

As you probably guessed it, this rhetorical question of mine was inspired by
real world events. However, these do not concern persons reputed to be the
richest in Canada. Nonetheless, there is a genuine Canadian connection to
my Tweet which actually concerns Gilbert Bigio, a man many claim to be
“the Haitian billionaire“.

Unlike imaginary Mercidieu, real world Gilbert Bigio owns multiple businesses
around the globe. His conglomerate GB Group S.A. is said to cover an
endless range of economic activities. From their website, one can read:
“Gilbert Bigio Group (GB Group) is a business conglomerate with diversified
arms in the business arenas of media, construction, logistics, consumer
goods, finance, energy, trading, infrastructure, and more. It offers garment
and textile production, ship dismantling, business park and residential
construction and development, telecommunication services, and more“. In
this regard, Bigio’s real life Canadian counterpart would actually be David
Thompson whose net worth has been estimated to $54 billion. Whereas
Thompson shares the distinction of billionaire with dozens of fellow
Canadians, Gilbert Bigio and his heirs are understood to seat alone on the
Haitian billionaire club. Judging from information that sporadically syphons
out about him, over past decades, the list of undisclosed “and more…”
activities that occupy Bigio might actually be significantly longer than the
array of official initiatives listed on the GB Group S.A. website.
A Jew from Syria whose father landed in Haiti in 1896, Israel’s former
honorary consul in Haiti for 25 years, Bigio lives in a small area of Miami
called Indian Creek Village that has only 32 houses and where his neighbours
include the daughter of former US President Donald Trump and several
celebrities. Bigio controls many facets of Haiti’s economy, with effective
monopoly on a wide range of products that people use every day. His group
is the exclusive importer of products from Kraft, Heinz, Mondelez, Philip
Morris, Plastifar, Goya, Hormel, Gourmet, Banda Eco, Kim, Puritex, Clean Boy,
Bactrosan, etc…

According to Haitian Twitter page Pou laverite ak pou listwa (translated “for
history and truth“), Bigio does not accept competition. He is deeply
embroiled in the infamous Petro Caribe funds scandal where, reportedly, up
to $4.2 Billion dollars has “mysteriously” evaporated. The money was
earmarked for desperately needed infrastructure works that never came to
fruition.

This April 2018 article by investigative journalist Corey Lynn claims

that Bigio has an army protecting him and his business in Haiti, with
police and military chiefs in the country on his payroll.

“He does not allow competition and will crush anyone trying to compete with
everything he produces or imports. He has a private army of about 80 men
protecting himself, his home and establishments. He also makes full use of
every military, paramilitary, and police force in the country. Every chief of
police is on his payroll. Every powerful member of the defunct military is also
on his payroll. He controls the ministry of finances, the Authorité portuaire
nationale (APN). He has close ties to IDF (Israeli Defense Force), and uses
about 10 Israeli commandos for his personal security when he feels the
situation is at a critical point.”
The following article (and few others accessible online) which explores
Bigio’s entanglement in the Pandora Papers scandal might also help the
reader review further facts about the individual who is sometimes dubbed
“the richest person in the Caribbean” and who happens to be a citizen of
Haiti, the country often described in world media as “the poorest of the
Western Hemisphere“. Alas, this is not the weirdest or most disturbing
paradox concerning multi-billionaire Bigio and extremely impoverished Haiti.

The Indian Creek (Miami, Florida, USA) exclusive resort resident, is one of a
dozen major warlords featured on lists of individuals said to be “sanctioned”
by their (former?) friends and allies in North American power circles – on
account of alleged collusion with vicious gangs of kidnappers that are
causing much terror in Haiti with incessant murders, torture, internal
displacement / gentrification, forced migration, statelessness etc…

Seemingly with much reluctance, on December 5, 2022, the Government of

Canada added three members of Haiti’s infamous white warlords, namely:
Gilbert Bigio, Sheriff Abdallah, Reynold Deeb to its list of individuals accused
of “seeking to profit from chaos and impunity in Haiti, and of arming and
directing gangs to pursue their political and business goals“. On June 21,
2023, André Apaid , Junior, a fourth among Haiti’s infamous big sharks was
added to the Canadian list. Astute observers noted a disturbing
phenomenon. Even in announcements of sanctions against major Haitian
criminals, there appears to be observance of a stubborn racial hierarchy. The
very first names listed on November 2, 2022 were those of 2 black Haitian
politicians:
1. Youri Latortue
2. Joseph Lambert

Then, a mix of dark and lighter skinned (grimo) Haitians joined Canada’s list
of undesirables, on November 17, 2022:

1. Rony Célestin
2. Hervé Fourcand
3. Gary Bodeau
4. Michel Joseph Martelly
5. Laurent Salvador Lamothe
6. Jean-Henry Ceant
Suspicion of “good cop, bad cop” shenanigans by the so-called
“international community“ (aka Blan Malveyan)

On December 5, 2022, same date that Canada announced sanctions against

the first 3 white warlords: Abdallah, Bigio and Deeb, the Miami Herald
published an article where it states: “In anticipation of sanctions, some
members of the private sector, including Reuven Bigio, who chairs his
billionaire father’s GB Group conglomerate, have been meeting in Miami and
Haiti under the auspices of a new entity called the Macaya Group. There
have been discussions about coming up with a 10-year investment plan for
the country and weighing in on the ongoing political paralysis”. The Herald
adds… “Recently, members of the group met with former British diplomat
Jonathan Powell, who traveled to Port-au-Prince and met with members of
the political class, including Martelly”.
The Organization of American States (OAS) which coordinated Powell’s
meeting with the Macaya Group (and bragged about it on Twitter) and
Canada, which pretends to sanction the same Macaya klan, are both part of
the infamous Core Group. The latter being the odd neo-colonial club of
foreign diplomats which effectively makes all major decisions in Haiti since
the 2004 Coup. The Core Group is a non-legal entity made up of the
ambassadors of the US, Canada, France, Brazil, Spain and Germany as well
as representatives of the European Union, United Nations and Organization
of American States established in Haiti.

Among other primary objectives, US armed paramilitaries (aka gangs) are

mobilized to destabilize and control the voting population of Haiti, so that
whenever the United States eventually gives the green light to hold
“elections” in the occupied territory, the ultimate outcome will inevitably be
another US puppet. The latter shall be empowered to guarantee white
oligarchs, multinational corporations and associated PHTK party
maintenance of key power and privileges, under this dis-order established by
force in Haiti, since decades.

Please see: https://jafrikayiti.com/what-ought-to-be-canadas-policy-towards-

haiti/

“The System” – camouflaged foreign tutelage whereby non-Haitians

assume most powers but accept zero accountability.

After the January 12, 2010 earthquake, the UN boasted receiving pledges for
$13 billion to be collected in the name of Haitians. Former US President Bill
Clinton was appointed (by non-Haitians) Co-Chairman of the Interim Haiti
Recovery Commission (IHRC), along with Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max
Bellerive. The pair was trusted to manage IHRC funds. Clinton traveled
around the world, proclaiming his gospel, determined to “build Haiti back
better“. Anyone who’s been to Haiti over the past decade can observe a total
absence of evidence that billions of dollars were ever spent on Haitian
infrastructure or anything of the sort. Just as Venezuela’s Petro Caribe funds,
which were rendered equally invisible, Haiti reconstruction billions were
embezzled in coordination with the US-established Parti Haitien Tèt Kale
(PHTK) dictatorship, spearheaded by public amuser/ drug dealer, turned
“Hillary Clinton-chosen puppet president of Haiti“, Michel Martelly.
The Haitian population has, thus far, been denied opportunity to bring even a
single PHTK criminal to justice. They are all, systematically, protected by
their powerful accomplices among corrupt elites of the United States,
Canada, and Europe.

If for nothing else, the very existence of Canada’s list of sanctioned

individuals (almost 100% PHTK government officials or business associates)
serves to underscore that the real forces behind so-called “Haitian gangs”
have long been positively identified. Yet, except for members of Haitian Civil
Society, no government, no international entity (Interpol, FBI…) has
mobilized effort for their effective arrest. Logically, the so-called “Haitian”
PHTK+ government is not in the least interested in the proposition to arrest
Florida, USA, long-term resident bosses Gilbert Bigio and Michael Joseph
Martelly.

Now, what about the much-talked-about international police or military

force? Could it not, at least, help Haitians subdue paramilitary terrorists?

History and common sense inform us that foreign interventions in Haiti serve
to protect US-allied criminals, including local white warlords. The Haitian
population knows this all too well. We remember how 1915 Yankees, FRAPH-
CIA allied 1994 US troops and 2004 UN troops (MINUSTAH) engaged in
multiple massacres – in popular neighbourhoods, killing thousands of
impoverished black Haitians with bullets, rapes, other sexual violence and
cholera contagion, in 2010.

As pertains to the current surge of paramilitary kidnappers and terrorists,

several reports, including those of the UN, confirm that deadly weapons held
by Haitian criminal paramilitaries come almost exclusively from the United
States. These so-called gangs who terrorize the impoverished population –
kept constantly on the run, collect several million dollar kidnapping ransoms.
Oddly so, it’s never from millionaire victims, but from diaspora-based family
and friends of poor and middle-class Haitian victims.

Existence of direct collusion between paramilitariy kidnappers and terrorists,

the criminal PHTK party and the white warlords featured on the Canadian list
is a long-established fact. For instance, this past June 28, 2023, a surreal
discussion occurred at a conference organized by Université Quisqueya
where Robert Muggah, a researcher who spoke on Day 1 of the conference,
matter-of-factly identified Ariel Henry (the US-appointed “leader of Haiti”) as
key sponsor of the brutal 400 Mawozo gang of kidnappers. Ariel Henry who
was also present and, in fact, spoke to open the conference (see 59:00),
uttered not a word to contradict Muggah; neither did other participants. It is
noteworthy that infamous 400 Mawozo terrorists in question have their base
of operation right in the vicinity of the humongous US Embassy in Port-au-
Prince.

If the political will existed to crush paramilitary terrorists in Haiti, US

authorities would have long ago stopped the flow of guns and ammunition
from the US into Haiti. And, within weeks, the population in coordination with
Haitian police would positively stop the progression of these criminals.
However, because what’s really at stake here is maintenance of hegemony
by the white warlord families in Haiti who are financing US-armed terrorists,
such practical actions are not entertained by the Biden administration.
 Picture: screenshot of presentation by Robert Muggah (see
https://www.youtube.com/live/nByyjhXN8YU?feature=share ) on June 28,
2023

2023 Haiti is in a situation somewhat similar to Apartheid South Africa. This

is rarely exposed in mainstream media because of persistent collusion
between corrupt elites in the United States, Canada and Europe, and those
white warlord families who control the economy of Haiti using blackface
puppets in the fake PHTK government.

It is noteworthy how André Apaid protested perceived betrayal by his long-

time Canadian allies. In his public statement, Apaid laments how: “On the
question of gangs and disarmament: each of Canada’s ambassadors since
2004, with the exception of the one in place, Mr. Sébastien Carrière, whom I
have not met, has witnessed my efforts and my contribution. This is also the
case for most ambassadors of friendly countries and United Nations
representatives and their staff…”.

As I often describe in my writings, socio-economic racial Apartheid is one of

the primary ills plaguing my native Haiti. What Apaid has done with his note
of protest and cautious reproach constitutes a clever appeal to historical
“solidarite ant blan malveyan” (solidarity among mischievous whites) on our
Caribbean island. Indeed, as per colonial times, there exists a web of
connections between the Port-au-Prince-based white ambassadors, NGO
directors, food importers and sweatshop owners, all of whom live in the same
neighbourhoods, send their kids to the same schools and have developed an
acute sense of (Apartheid-like) community in Haiti. Mainstream media has
consistently maligned the real victims of this barbaric Apartheid-like
situation. Purposefully, they propagate a host of racist stereotypes which
sustain an imagined “besieged class of white-do-gooders requiring
protection against savage others in wild Haiti“. Never mind that those
“others” in question are, in fact, black Haitians, the rightful owners of the
Island of Liberty.

I persist to say: this endless conflict raging in Haiti cannot be understood, let
alone solved, if its racial dimension is systematically avoided, side-stepped
or its importance underestimated. The white warlords who are the primary
culprits, are aware of their power and of the precious impunity they
shamelessly enjoy thanks to powerful cousins/allies in North America and
Europe. So was it for 20,000 white slavers in pre-Revolution Haiti of 1791. So
was it for European merchants who received millions of dollars in
compensation thanks to gun-boat diplomacy bullying which was enforced by
mobilized militaries of France, Britain, Spain, Germany, the US, among
others, throughout the 20th century.

I posit it is no coincidence that the same white families who begged US

Yankee troops to invade and remain in Haiti , back in 1921, are the direct
ancestors of Acra, Bigio, Apaid, Boulos, El Saieh… Zuraik.

There can be no remaining doubt that Pamela White’s desired invasion of

Haiti is meant to, once again, serve the interests of a group of US-allied
criminals who fear the wrath of angry, impoverished black masses. As
reported in that May 2023 article of The International : “A journalist
incessantly questioned me about whether there was any nuance in our
stance, whether we would support intervention, and I adamantly replied,
‘No’… We even had a banner that read ‘Canada out of Haiti,’ and the story
about the demonstration had a striking headline: ‘Haitians are calling for
Canada to intervene’ – they already had their preconceived narrative.”
Remember: Pamela White had also advised Biden on the best manner to get
rid of former Haitian puppet President Jovenel Moïse. White’s March 12, 2021
testimony is still accessible online, here. July 7, 2021, Moise was effectively
“put aside”, 4 months after White’s admonition to do just that. The gang that
killed Moise includes several hires of US agencies (FBI, DEA) and
mercenaries from Colombia. Was this a case of misunderstood directives?
Whatever the case, one takeaway message for me is that Mrs. White’s
wishes should never be taken lightly.

But what about applying more sanctions, like Canada?

Back in 1993, like Canada is now doing, the US drew a list of major warlords
who were supposedly “sanctioned” for collusion with Haitian paramilitary
criminals involved in the 1991 coup which removed President Aristide from
office, the first time around. Can you guess whose names were on that 1993
US Office of Foreign Assets list? Indeed, the same culprits, including white
warlord Bigio who only became richer during the years of so-called “anbago“,
through contraband via the Dominican Republic border which fuelled his tax-
exempt import-export monopolies.

Picture: screenshot of presentation by Robert Muggah (see

https://www.youtube.com/live/nByyjhXN8YU?feature=share ) on June 28,
2023

In fact, a few weeks after the September 30, 1991 CIA-backed coup which
toppled President Aristide’s first democratically-elected government, I was
shopping in Gilbert Bigio’s downtown Port-au-Prince jewelry store when, with
my own two ears, I overheard Bigio siblings bragging how they’ve lobbied so
expensively to place former CIA Director, George Bush Sr., inside the United
States White House; Therefore, they won’t tolerate betrayal from the US
President if he were to ever let then-exiled Jean-Bertrand Aristide to return to
the island. Thus spoke 2 local “Blan Malveyan” who were absolutely
confident and assured of the impunity they enjoy – thanks to US wicked
might.

What would it cost the US Government, this one time, to stand on the good
side of history and arrest Gilbert Bigio & Michel Martelly who currently reside
in Florida? This is not a rhetorical question. We, Haitians, know how costly
shocking impunity enjoyed by these two warlords, under the shields of the
US and its subservient states, has proven to us all.

Why focus on Bigio and Martelly, one might ask, when the list of
criminal warlords features so many names?

Arresting Martelly, the former US puppet “president of Haiti”, whose ongoing

connections with paramilitary terrorists is amply documented, a prime
suspect in the Manzanares drug affair, the Petro Caribe fund embezzlement
scandal, etc… would send shockwaves among other PHTK criminals. Such an
arrest would signal to paramilitary terrorists the near collapse of their
weapons and ammunition supply. Martelly’s arrest, coupled with that of
Gilbert Bigio, would offer much-needed hope that, after two centuries of
racist and malicious US war on black Haitians, genuine peace is in sight. For,
let it be clear, nothing will change fundamentally in Haiti unless economic
power and privileges usurped by all warlord families are drastically
diminished. These men and women who claim private ports where they
import war grade weapons and ammunition will never suffer the advent of
any progressive government voted in by the people of Haiti. Such would
inevitably threaten their hegemony and, in reaction, they will not hesitate to,
once again, finance a deadly US-backed coup.

In closing, let us all admit that, under my hypothetical scenario, few readers
can honestly doubt that billionaire criminal Joseph Mercidieu would have
been quickly and appropriately dumped into a dark Canadian jail.

Social Justice activists and people of conscience worldwide hereby reiterate

the just, logical and timely demand that Canada, the US & Europe
collaborate with all efforts by Haitian society to nationalize every asset
currently held by criminal warlords who are suspected to have hidden much
of their loot beyond Haitian borders. With recuperated stolen assets, the
Haitian nation could establish a Haiti Building Fund that legitimate Haitian
governments would, henceforth, access for the national budget.
To me, that’s fundamental. Just like P.W. Botha and associate criminals of
Apartheid Azania, the US-backed warlords in Haiti must fall, by any means
necessary!

billionaire criminal Joseph Mercidieu would

have been quickly and appropriately dumped into a dark Canadian jail.
#BlackNationhoodMatters
#ArrestBigio
#ArrestMartelly
#ArrestApaid
#Arrest Abdallah
#ArrestDeeb