Caribbean Canadian Chemical Company

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Caribbean Canadian Chemical Company, S.A. known by its initials 4C or also Laboratoires 4C is a pharmaceutical company based in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

4C was founded in 1952 by a Haitian-Canadian consortium. In 1978, management changed when the company was acquired by a group of Haitian investors. The company diversified in the manufacturing commercial and hygiene products and is also the distributor for Kimberly-Clark brands in Haiti.

Today 4C makes over 180 drugs and has a staff of 330 employees.

CCCC, G184, Andy Apaid and Reginald Boulos

Andy Apaid and Reginald Boulos may be Haitiís most despised men. Despite this obvious shortcoming, the media fourth estate often presented them to the world as Haitiís greatest saviours.

Under the guidance of Apaid and Boulos, the G184 successfully pushed the ultraviolent, antidemocratic agenda of Haitiís elite to its logical conclusion the brutal 2004 coup (WP). Their dream come true was to rid Haiti of its elected government and supplant it with a more business-friendly regime. Because CIDA, and other government agencies from the U.S. and Europe, blessed them with tremendous financial, logistical and diplomatic support, and made their dream a bloody reality, it is worth examining the backgrounds of these two industrial magnates...

[Another] frequently quoted mouthpiece for the G184, was Reginald Boulos. Like Apaid, his credentials would appear to make him less than desirable as a candidate to represent Haiti's populace. For one thing, Boulos like Apaid is a multi-millionaire of middle-eastern, not African, heritage. What's more, Pharval Labs the pharmaceutical company he leads is infamous throughout Haiti for having sold a poisonous, cough syrup that killed 88 children in 1996 when it was distributed throughout poor neighborhoods of the capital.

Distributing Pharval's deadly product in poor Port-au-Prince areas was the Caribbean Canadian Chemical Company."

The cough syrup, under the names Abefril and Valodon, was contaminated with 15% ethylene glycol, commonly used in anti-freeze. Antifreeze, due to its high alcohol content and the sweet odor imparted by the ethylene glycol, is a substance commonly added to alcohol by unscrupulous black marketeers, two examples being Europe in the 1980s and as recently as 2011 in the United Arab Emirates. Ethylene glycol was made infamous in the USA in 1937, when it killed more than a hundred people. It also killed people in medications used in South Africa, Bangladesh, India, and Nigeria.

See Also

• G184
• Andy Apaid
• Reginald Boulos
• 2004 coup (WP)