03-03-04, 03:57 AM
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U.s.-sponsored Regime Change In Haiti
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March 1, 2004 - In the wee hours of March 1, US Marines landed in Haiti hours after
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide reportedly succumbed to demands from an
armed opposition movement that he step down and go into exile--although
persistent rumors on the ground maintain he was actually arrested by US
forces. As rebel troops entered the capital Port-au-Prince, the UN
Security
Council approved a resolution authorizing a multinational force to restore
order, and French troops are also on the way.
The rebel army, hobbled together from anti-government gangs and militias
and led by former army officers, has achieved its aim of Aristide's
ouster. It seems the cost will be the loss of Haiti's sovereignty to foreign
occupation troops--yet again..
Cycles of Destabilization
This overthrow had been in the making since December 1990, when Haiti's
first free election was held. The winning candidate, with two-thirds
majority, was the populist priest Aristide, backed by a vigorous
grassroots movement known as Lavalas. But seven months later, Aristide's government
was overthrown in a military coup. No government on earth recognized the
military junta, but as Noam Chomsky noted: "Washington maintained close
intelligence and military ties with the new rulers while undermining the
embargo called by the Organization of American States, even authorizing
illegal shipments of oil to the regime and its wealthy supporters."
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whitehouse denies he was kidnapped..but from what i just heard his lawyer say in an interview..it sounded like he was..
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