[lbo-talk] Haiti Coup

Mon Mar 1 04:44:09 PST 2004

>[lbo-talk] Haiti Coup and Left KneeJerks
>Thomas Seay entheogens at yahoo.com
>Sun Feb 29 21:53:54 PST 2004
<snip>
>The French left-wing daily "La Liberation" is now reporting that the 
>gardner at Aristide's residence did report that Aristide had been 
>away by force.  The editorial there, on the other hand, says that 
>this is a UN join French-Canadian-US force on the island now and 
>that they are just assuming their responsibilities to maintain a bit 
>of order on the island.
>
>I dont know if this was a coup or not.  But I cant believe that 
>based on the testimony of one gardner that already people are 
>jumping to the conclusion that this was a coup.

If you had been paying attention to reports on and analyses of Haiti 
from various quarters, you would have thought that what happened 
yesterday was more or less predictable.

Stan Goff, "Beloved Haiti: A (Counter) Revolutionary Bicentennial," 
February 9, 2004: <http://www.counterpunch.org/goff02142004.html>.

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EUGENIA CHARLES-MATHURIN, eugenia at haitireborn.org
MALINDA MILES, http://www.haitireborn.org
Co-Director of Haiti Reborn/Quixote Center, Charles-Mathurin said 
today: "The United States has helped create this opposition to 
destabilize and undermine Haiti's nascent democracy.... The U.S. is 
the only party which can bring to the negotiation table these groups 
which include members of the CIA-linked FRAPH death squads and the 
former brutal army of Haiti, FAD'H, which killed over 5,000 people 
from 1991-1994.... President Aristide, the constitutional president, 
has pledged that he would step down from power when his term comes to 
a close. In accordance with the Haitian Constitution, he cannot run 
again. His commitments have been met with escalating violence by 
opposition members." Malinda Miles, also co-director of Haiti Reborn, 
is currently in Haiti. . . .   *****

"Congressional Black Caucus: Bush Must Stop Haiti Coup," Thursday, 
February 26th, 2004: 
<http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/26/1612207>.

*****   Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 15:03:09 -0600
From: "Alberto M. Giordano" <narconews at hotmail.com>
Subject: [narconews] Numa St. Louis: Haiti 2004 - The Great Irony
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February 28, 2004
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Dear Colleague,

Events of recent days can leave no doubt: the administration in 
Washington has done everything possible to topple a democratically 
elected government on the Caribbean island of Haiti, including 
economic embargo and support for a few hundred, well-armed, 
paramilitary death squads who have taken some of the country's major 
cities.

Their boss, Guy Phillippe, today told reporters that he is following 
Washington's lead.

"I heard the United States asked our men to stop their advance to 
Port-au-Prince. It's on the news on the Net," said Phillippe, 
according to a report by the British Press Association. "If they ask 
us, it's because they have a better option, option for peace, and we 
always give peace a chance here, so we'll wait to see for one or two 
days," he said. "We will keep on sending troops but we won't attack 
Port-au-Prince until we understand what the US means."

So there you have it. The leader of this anti-democracy band of 
violent thugs has spoken: He will do what Washington says.

Everything that happens next over the coming hours and days will be 
the direct result of signals sent by the government in Washington... 
just as all that has happened so far has been. It's just that, today, 
the leader of the anti-democracy paramilitaries admitted it in public.

Meanwhile, we bring you the historic analysis of Numa St. Louis, 
Haitian American radio host in Philadelphia, special to The Narco 
News Bulletin:

Haiti 2004: The Great Irony

In the Country's Bicentennial Year, another US-Backed Coup

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