Haiti's Jimmy 'Barbecue' Chérizier: Gang leader or revolutionary? | The Chris Hedges Report

Jimmy "Barbecue" Chérizier has been placed in the international spotlight as an emblem of Haiti's purported "gang problem." But who is Chérizier really? A new documentary series, Another Vision: Inside Haiti's Uprising, offers a different view of Chérizier—not as the leader of a criminal enterprise, but as a political figure leading an armed revolutionary movement. Directors Dan Cohen and Kim Ives join The Chris Hedges Report to discuss their new project.

Dan Cohen is a journalist and co-producer of the documentary Killing Gaza. He is currently a correspondent for Redacted and founder of Uncaptured Media.

Kim Ives is an investigative journalist and English-language editor at Haïti Liberté.

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[melittafilter]

The planet would be a much more peaceful place if the US would neither mess around with other countries nor have their military all over the place. Your country has so many domestic problems. Why don't you start solving those and leave us all alone? I would really appreciate it.

[elizabethmumba]

America making sure Haiti remain poor shame on america

[gregorykhan]

Thank you 😢for this update. Haiti is so important for the psyche and independence of our region

[mabouyalobservateur]

This is the type of journalistic work you won't hear about Haiti anywhere else.
Great work!

[jessejames]

Haiti is a Giant in the Revolutionary struggle

[yvonjulien]

In 2023, someone finally speaking the truth. But are we gonna stand and bring the change ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹

[ujean]

It's a mystery to me why we continue to regard countries like Haiti as "victims of neoliberalism". Equally puzzling is the term neoliberalism itself. Which in every regard is textbook fascism disguised as economics. My mother's family sacrificed two young men in WWII fighting fascism. My father lived a life of episodic PTSD to the day he died in 2012, the result of his efforts fighting fascism. There is nothing "neo" about neoliberalism. It is an extreme form of capitalism the likes of which the world saw in the 1930s resulting in the Great Depression, and it is the kind of capitalism in play during Hitler's rise to power and the advent of the world's greatest atrocities as part of the world's greatest obscenity - WWII. Let's stop apologizing for the international Oligarchs who are claiming digital technology and the "new economy" as their raison d'être. They are fascists without the Nationalist imperative and will continue to destroy the world while being given the friendly name of neoliberals. They must be crushed or we're all doomed.

[paxvob]

Thank you Kim Ives and Dan Cohen for superlative work under extremely tough conditions. Your commitment and relentless efforts are inspiring.

[illuminatedbestchoice]

One way or another Haiti will be freed from the chains of oppression and despair. Don't ask me how but it SHALL manifest.

[Jessy-dtdn]

I am Haitian and you understand very well what is happening in Haiti. Thanks a lot for putting your projector on it!

[pichorra]

The real question is why the U.S.A is always involved in most coups around the World, there has to be some type of benefit for them.

[beautifulforever]

G9 is a gang and the leader need to be jailed. Period

[suzanneharris]

Thank you Chris for inviting these excellent, inspirational guests. Haiti 🇭🇹 deserves our attention & assistance, long overdue.

[howardharris]

Thanks for this info it shows pure injustice toward the people of Haiti.

[Benjamin-Opi]

God bless the people of 🇭🇹 Haiti. Thanks for this insight brilliant talk much appreciated.

[TraditionalAnglican]

The elites in Haiti KNOW they would all be richer, healthier & more secure if they cleaned up the sewage, provided what ordinary Haitians need (clean water, sound houses, electricity, sewage treatment, food & education & allowed them to prosper, but that’s not what they want! What they want is ABSOLUTE POWER, the ability to say who lives, dies, receives an education & healthcare.

[GeorgesJonas]

Chris, thank you so much for this another reportage for the books. You are a badge of honor to our Church, the Presbyterian Church USA. I am a retired Presbyterian minister who returned to Haiti from the US to be part of the solution. I hope to meet you some day. Thank you again.

[raphbolte-desrosiers]

Always thanks to all of you at RNN for this. so needed and difficult to hear at times, but am so so grateful for this information. All the best

[mikenorledge]

it's odd that the nations that the colonial/imperialist powers don't like seem to suffer from earthquakes and tsunamis a lot

[tidypeaches]

Glad this is being covered. Thank you for good journalism.