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EXCLUSIVE: Guy Philippe “Everything is a Consequence of Corruption”
Fresh off his nine-year sentence served in the U.S. for money laundering, the once Senator-elect, and Haitian revolutionary Guy Philippe is set to return to his homeland but is currently being held in an ICE facility. Senior Editor James R. Sanders reports.
Though years older, his voice has every bit of its strength and might. He’s still a man on a mission to save Haiti with his politics balled up in a fist he refuses to unclench until justice is served.
In 2017, Guy Philippe was the Senator-elect, a position, once sworn in, he would serve for 6 years. But when he made an appearance at a local radio station, no one could have predicted that he’d be apprehended by the police and sent to the U.S. where he would remain to this day.
Gary Desrosiers, a deputy spokesman for the Haitian National Police, told the New York Times, “This was an operation led by the Haitian police.”
As this story goes to print, Guy Philippe sits in an ICE facility waiting to return to Haiti.
“They took me by forcible abduction,” Philippe said.
