washington supported the duvalier regime, knowing full well that in the state of haiti there was no talktic values, freedoms or human rights. kakati is a small island state located next to the united states. america, it has an interesting history, it became the first french colony to gain independence and immediately fell into the orbit of us influence. there have been 23 coups d'etat in the entire history of haiti, a huge number, even in the newest modern history of us intervention, a very clear contrast with the dominican republic - it is a prosperous resort state. and haiti is the poorest country with a destroyed infrastructure and atrophy. institutions of public administration, with a non-functioning economy, from where refugees constantly strive to get to the united states of america, and the united states of america strives not to let these refugees in and deport them, and there was even a humanitarian catastrophe there during the years of the coronavirus pandemic, and when the united states, and those infected with coronavirus, were deported back with the understanding that the he

history, the result of all these historical vicissitudes was the popularity of the voodoo cult, duvalieruperstitions, and perhaps he himself... was subject to them, in particular, they used this cruelty in order to keep the population in fear and control them, and with the understanding that the economic regime was extremely ineffective, despite the fact that the population was starving, and duvalier himself lived in generally very comfortable conditions in the palace, and armed, surrounded by armed guards, because he was constantly afraid of the government... he held a referendum and, as a result of the referendum, became ruler of haiti for life and ruled until his death in 1971, with the support of washington , a very extensive prison system was subsequently created under him. and torture was used in these prisons, including in order to keep the population in fear, who lived in conditions of extreme poverty, and so that all this would be known, there were tortured bodies or severed heads, this information even got into the press, in order, of course, to prevent a coup, because haiti is

were supported by the united states of america during the cold war, along with including mabutu, duvalierr of other political leaders and dictators. sense show the policy of double standards of the united states of america, which in words spoke about democracy and the protection of human rights and, by the way, allocated huge sums to support democracy in various countries, but at the same time turned a blind eye not only to the violation of human rights, but to massacres, political repression and torture in those states whose dictators were loyal to them and relied on who is he in his foreign and domestic policy? the united states pursued, first of all, geopolitical interests, secondly, these are economic interests, in the events, which means they were involved in the congo, congo-zairi, they were involved, which means by the power of the organization the united nations, for the first time since the korean war, in such a large number of peacekeeping forces were used in the congo, but whether they were successful, they were not successful, and it even got to the point that the un secretary

one is, i'm not sure if i'm going to butcher this, duvalier versus texas brought by our friends from the institute of justice. the question is whether the just compensation clause itself is executing or whether a legislature has to pass a law with a cause of action for a property owner to seek compensation. and the second issue is sheets versus county of el dorado, california brought by a former pls attorney paul beard, he's now in private practice. it involved legislative actions. existing supreme court precedent one of way was a pls case, says that local governments can't use permitting processes to get things from property owners that they would otherwise need to pay for. so, this is seeking to extend that to the legislature, so, the permitting process cases deal on an individual level, a case by case determination and the legislative exacting, can the legislature do on a, you know, entire citizen basis, what the court has said can't be done for permitting, so, those are two that the court's going to hear later this term that were granted this morning. john, i know there's one-- a