Haiti row tops Caribbean summit (Caricom - BBC)

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Last Updated: Thursday, 25 March, 2004, 17:07 GMT

Haiti row tops Caribbean summit

By James Painter
BBC regional analyst

The Caribbean regional body Caricom is meeting in St Kitts and Nevis with Haiti set to top the agenda.
Caricom has not recognised the new government of Prime Minister Gerard Latortue, and may even decide to suspend Haiti from the organisation.

Last week, former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide returned from the Central African Republic to the Caribbean for a visit to Jamaica.

This led Mr Latortue to threaten to break off diplomatic ties with Jamaica.

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1. what would be really cool

is if they voted to invite Aristide as Haiti's representative, since he's still the president and all.

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2. agreed

that would indeed be a great move.

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3. So much for the U.S. supporting freedom and democracy.

Those clowns in the administration sided with the rapists and torturers. NICE GOING, guys. What is this, the freakin' Reagan administration?

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4. it's worse than the Reagan administration

or at minimum, at least as bad, if either of those are possible.

[truthspeaker]

5. good comparison

We have to remember that, not only did many of Shrub's people work in the Reagan administration, they do not acknowledge that any of the actions undertaken at that time were wrong. These people seriously believe that there was nothing wrong with supporting Pinochet's regime, or ARENA in El Salvador, or the contras in Nicaragua (even after Congress told them to stop). Any criticism of our support for those regimes is "historical revisionism" or "blaming America" in their minds.

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6. and it's no surprise that they are blocking the release of Reagan era docs

I had read and heard that many FOIA requests of docs that should be available now have been blocked from disclosure by the Reagan-Bush-Bush characters. Including many docs on Iran-Contra.

No surprise.