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originally posted by: IAMTAT
This capture contains a message by Monica Petersen from Aug. 15, 2015
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This must've been her first trip to Haiti.
She mentions she is going to Haiti for three weeks to do fieldwork on human trafficking ("ALL exploited labor sectors, not just sex") and asks if anyone knows of any sex workers or sex worker organizations she can investigate.
She basically states she is not going there to "rescue" people (she calls this a "stupid and imperialistic concept")...but, rather, to do "solid research on HT" as a social anthropologist.
Maria Jose T. Fletcher is the co-director and founder of VIDA Legal Assistance, Inc., a nonprofit organization formed in February of 2011 to advance the rights of immigrant survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, trafficking in persons and other violent crimes.
Some of her duties include overall supervision of the agency’s attorneys, paralegals, intern students and volunteers, as well as direct representation of low-income immigrant victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, trafficking in persons, and other related violent crimes.
Plane crash in Malta kills French anti-trafficking team on board
A French-chartered plane monitoring trafficking activity in the Mediterranean crashed in a ball of flames at Malta's international airport on Monday, killing all five people on board, officials said. The plane, which had been chartered by French customs, plummeted into the ground shortly after take-off, the Maltese government said in a statement. It added that all the victims were French nationals and that there was no indication of an explosion on board prior to the crash.
"The flight was part of a French customs surveillance operation which has been taking place for the past five months, with the aim of tracing routes of illicit trafficking of all sorts, including human and drug trafficking amongst others," the government said.
originally posted by: MotherMayEye
a reply to: IAMTAT
Ah, it seems facts are murky. Rumors and murkiness. Other wild ideas about what the people on the flight were doing:
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The disinfo gives it away...there is a huge story behind that plane crash and it's being obscured.
THIS is the woman (name blacked out--TOP--i.imgur.com...) ...whom I believe recommended Monica (Aug. 15, 2015) ask about sex workers and human trafficking in Haiti before she went there in 2015.
Norma Jean Almodovar (born May 27, 1951) is an American author and sex workers activist.
Almodovar worked as a traffic control police officer for ten years. In 1982, she quit her job with the Hollywood Division of the Los Angeles Police Department and began working as a call girl.
In 1984, she attempted to recruit a former coworker from the LAPD to begin working as a prostitute. Her actions resulted in an arrest and conviction for pandering.
In 1986, Almodovar ran for lieutenant governor in the California gubernatorial election, as a Libertarian.
Almodovar's autobiography was published by Simon & Schuster in 1993.
She is the founder of the International Sex Worker Foundation for Art, Culture and Education (ISWFACE). As of 2012, Almodovar serves as the executive director of the Los Angeles branch of COYOTE.
Also, I am not suggesting anything, but for the sake of completeness, I should mention that Claude d'Estree worked in the US Attorney's office on behalf of DynCorp between 1999-2002:
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Aftermath:
I have been contacted by 3 different people all claiming to be good friends with Monica with the sole purpose of trying to discredit the link to the Clintons.
They mostly did so by attacking Bella, while ignoring the fact that she simply shared these posts 10 MONTHS AGO with no agenda other than to spread the word to her friends in a small Facebook group.
They claim now that Bella is seeking fame, yet the exact opposite is true - Bella is trying to distance herself as much as possible from all this.
Those 3 people seem very adamant in conveying the fact that they know for a fact Monica's death is not related to her research activity in Haiti.
Yet, at the same time, admit that the family has NOT EVEN SEEN Monica's body.
from Port-au-Prince, Haiti
to Caracol, Haiti
6 h 10 min (267 km)
originally posted by: jadedANDcynical
a reply to: IAMTAT
Big red flag!
Now looking at Haiti and considering where she taught in comparison to where the Caracol Complex is located, google maps gives us the following:
from Port-au-Prince, Haiti
to Caracol, Haiti
6 h 10 min (267 km)
This would seem to rule out Caracol being the focus of her investigations.
Now, that is not to say that she was not following a trail related to possible Clinton connected activity, I just think this simple fact throws a question as to whether or not it was Caracol she was looking in to.
From what I could gather she was looking to start an NGO which would have had the purpose of coordinating activity among other NGOs dedicated to human trafficking and helping them to better work together.