The Reason for Haiti?

[mac2]

Link: http://www.blackcommentator.com/78/78_haiti.html

By the Black Commentator..snip..

"The Bush administration is preparing to declare Haiti a “failed state,” so that Washington can step in to put the pieces back together as it chooses. Creating the conditions for such a declaration has been the U.S. objective since George Bush came to power. For three years Washington and the European Union have imposed an aid embargo on Haiti, squeezing the hemisphere’s poorest nation until it screamed – and then squeezing harder.

Despite ever deepening misery, Haiti’s poor majority stuck with their popularly elected President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide."

Seems Mr. Aristide didn't go along with the World Bank...ah..err..World Union. They over throw an elected leader with just a few troops by refusing loans, etc. It is apparent that, we are the "military wing" of the World Bank.

This is what is wrong with giving any President Fast Tract authority. He can forced governments out of power that don't go along with the "willing". "We the people" have no say as to his foreign policy.

[AmericanErrorist]

1. Um, you failed to post the link

[mac2]

2. It's there now.

[mac2]

3. Now, it's gone!!

I'm having trouble with this link. Go to www.blackcommnetator.com to read about Haiti.

Link: http://www.blackcommentator.com/78/78_haiti.html Maybe...it will work later?

[anti-NAFTA]

4. Why can't the black commentator just blame Aristide?

Aristide is responsible. He is a US backed dictator who bankrupted his country and then whined about France owing Haiti reparations. I hope he gets life in prison, only because I don't believe in the death penalty. A scumbag if there ever was one.

[Snow]

6. Aristide was US backed?

I didn't know that; I thought the duvaliers were our buddies....

[HawkerHurricane]

7. Clinton backed Aristide...

Bush I and II backed the Duvaliers.

[Dirk39]

8. Clinton tried to blackmail Artstide, to become

a worldbank and IMF puppet. Artistide rejected to outsell Haiti.
When it comes to imperialism and destroying other countries, there seems to be no difference between the demopublicans.


"In 1991, Aristide was overthrown by the brutal paramilitary, led by former CIA employees Emmanuel Constant and Raoul Cedras. The massive influx of refugees fleeing Haiti from the brutal FRAPH paramilitary regime, in addition to a groundswell of domestic support for Haiti, forced Clinton to “restore democracy” to Haiti in 1994. Aristide, having his way cleared by US troops, returned to Haiti recognized internationally as its legitimate leader.

Aristide’s return was only made possible when he “embraced the Haitian bourgeoisie and accepted a U.S. occupation and Washington’s neoliberal agenda.” As Noam Chomsky has detailed, “The Aristide government to keep to a standard "structural adjustment" package, with foreign funds devoted primarily to debt repayment and the needs of the business sectors, and with an "open foreign investment policy." <8>"
Source: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/FEN402A.html


From another article about what's happening in Haiti:
"The USA refuses to release documents it seized from FRAPH during the 1994 USA invasion--presumably to cover up the CIA ties to FRAPH. Philippe and Cham blain were among those from the Haitian opposition, recognized by the USA--the Convergence--who organized conferences in the Dominican Republic, funded and attended by USA operatives from the International Republican Institute."

Collusion of FRAPH, Convergence and U.S.

Although Secretary of State Powell pretends the death squads and the Convergence have nothing in common, the collusion between them has become clear with this invasion. One leader of the political opposition, sweatshop owner Andre Apaid, says he wants nothing to do with the armed gangs, but what "respected" gangland boss ever acknowledges his bloody-handed lieutenants?

A British observer, writing in The Independent of Feb. 17, reported that "The rebels are being manipulated and apparently taken over by disgruntled former army officers who, if left to their own devices, would probably return Haiti to the dictatorship and military terror of the Duvalier era. Although such a prospect is being publicly deplored, diplomatic sources in Port-au-Prince say Western governments are increasingly wondering if Haiti would be more stable--at least, from their point of view--under a dictatorship rather than Mr. Aristide's flawed version of democracy."

The Convergence, which includes many Haitian business leaders, has been agitating for Aristide to step down and organized several street protests, which received sympathetic coverage in the U.S. corporate media. Much larger demonstrations in support of the government, like one on Feb. 7 that drew hundreds of thousands in Port-au-Prince, are ignored by these same media.

After Aristide was returned to office in 1994 by the U.S., he disbanded the Haitian army. This move, which fit into his pacifist views, was supposed to allay the continuing threat of a military coup. But he did not set up any alternative system of defense, like a popular militia, so the government lacks a strong force to defend itself against the former militaries, who have now shown up with a surprising amount of coordination and weapons.

These trained assassins have taken over a number of cities north of the capital, where they immediately attacked police stations and city halls, killing police who were loyal to Aristide and seizing arms and ammunition. There are reports that they dragged corpses through the streets in order to terrorize the population.

According to the Miami Herald of Feb. 16, "Gonaives and St. Marc were wrested from the government as the rebels shot, burned and looted their way through cities and villages."

Haiti's entire police force--which now must do the work of an army--is only 5,000. By contrast, New York City, which has about 1 million fewer people than Haiti, has 32,000 cops, including heavily armed SWAT teams, who at any time could be reinforced by the National Guard."
http://www.workers.org/ww/2004/haiti0226.php

Hello from Germany,
Dirk

[anti-NAFTA]

9. Give me a break.

The US is now sending Marines to protect that guy's crooked ass.

[Dirk39]

10. No!

"The policy makers in Washington apparently believe they can force a "regime change" to their liking without sending in their own troops at this time. This could change, of course, especially if a rival imperialist power like France, which has troops on nearby Caribbean islands, makes a move."

"Washington would probably prefer to let the death squads do their work of weakening the government and the popular resistance, and then come in posing as saviors--while in fact forcing Aristide to defer to figures like Marc Bazin, a former World Bank official whom Washington had picked to win the 1990 election. Bazin was defeated by Aristide in a landslide vote, to the imperialists' dismay."
http://www.workers.org/ww/2004/haiti0226.php

Although I hope, you're right,
Dirk

[HawkerHurricane]

5. Bush wants to change the Gov in Haiti

Just like he wants to change the one in Venezuala, and for the same reason:
The Oligarcha (not what it's called in Haiti, I'm sure), many of whom are buddies of Bush, want to get back into power.
Bush is wrong to try to force both Venezuala and Haiti to change thier governments.