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U.S. and France Kiss and Make Up, Haitian Democracy Dies Leave it to the New York Times to turn the bloody overthrow of a democratically elected President into a veritable love story. In an article published on March 3 entitled "U.S. and France Set Aside Differences in Effort to Resolve Haiti Conflict" the newspaper of record reported that "the joint diplomacy over Haiti is a dramatic example of how the longtime allies can set aside differences, find common ground, play to their strengths and even operate in an atmosphere of trust.&q...
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 11:47am PST
HAITI: Washington was behind `coup’ says Aristide “The Haitian constitution is working”, US President George Bush told the media on March 1. It might seem an odd way to describe a country overrun by armed thugs and, now, foreign troops, and whose elected president has been kidnapped and spirited away. But what Bush meant was that the Haitian constitution is now working to the benefit of Washington's elite....
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 11:45am PST
Haiti: Washington's Tar Baby Aristide is not the first Haitian leader to have been kidnapped by the US. In 1915, they arrested and exiled (to Jamaica) Dr Rosalvo Bobo, who was not only a noted physician but also the leader of the Haitian majority party, and was scheduled to be formally elected as president by the Haitian Parliament....
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 11:43am PST
Before fall of Aristide, Haiti hit by aid cutoff WASHINGTON -- For three years, the US government, the European Union, and international banks have blocked $500 million in aid to Haiti's government, ravaging the economy of a nation already twice as poor as any in the Western Hemisphere....
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 11:41am PST
Bush Must Go This is an article about expressed views by half the country. Thanks Be To God!...
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 10:35am PST
Revealed: Shocking new evidence of the dangers of GM crops Genetically modified strains have contaminated two-thirds of all crops in US...
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 10:11am PST
National Conference of Black Lawyers Blasts Kidnapping of Aristide NCBL stands firmly in support of President Aristide, and we offer our full support to those courageous members of the Congressional Black Caucus and others who have dared to defy the U.S. political establishment and expose the lies of the Bush Administration and its lackeys in the corporate mass media....
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 10:08am PST
3/6 AHP News on Haiti Guy Philippe’s rebels are still armed; supporters of the platform and Lavalas
supporters are getting ready to demonstrate...
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 10:03am PST
HAITI: Another US foreign policy tragedy THE UNITED States has registered yet another foreign policy tragedy in a long series of such episodes in the world, particularly in the Latin American region, long considered its sphere of influence....
Posted: Sat, Mar 6, 2004 11:02pm PST
Defeat for Democracy: Haiti and the US PRESIDENT Jean-Bertrand Aristide's exile from Haiti represents a defeat for democracy and a victory for the island's brutal elite, supported by the US Republican right....
Posted: Sat, Mar 6, 2004 10:59pm PST
Power Shift In Haiti Puts Rights at Risk Within his imperfect democracy, however, sprouted the beginnings of a government that was more responsive to Haiti's poor and willing for the first time to take on difficult human rights prosecutions -- at least against its enemies. Now those tentative openings may disappear as the political power shifts back from Aristide's mostly poor followers to a group of former military officers, traditionally the enforcement arm of Haiti's economic elite, who have reentered politics at the head of a re...
Posted: Sat, Mar 6, 2004 10:56pm PST
Aristide supporters plan Haiti backlash PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - Anger is simmering among supporters of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in the Port-au-Prince
slums nearly a week after he fled to Africa....
Posted: Sat, Mar 6, 2004 12:18pm PST
Aristide muzzled: Contact with journalists restricted, say hosts BANGUI, (AFP) - The Cabinet in the Central African Republic went into talks yesterday, reportedly to discuss what to do with their difficult guest, ousted Haitian leader, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and took steps to keep him quiet.
National radio announced that all local and foreign journalists with questions relating to Aristide, who has annoyed his hosts with embarrassing statements, must henceforth first address themselves to the CAR authorities....
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 8:05pm PST
Central Africa moves to silence Aristide The Government of the Central African Republic has moved to silence its guest, ousted Haitian leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide, but said it is not ready to expel him from the country.
"The government has instructed the foreign ministry and myself to once again go and point out to him that he has an obligation to be discreet that he must respect," government spokesman Parfait M'bay said following a late-night cabinet meeting to discuss what to do with Mr Aristide....
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 6:57pm PST
Aristide Details Last Moments In Haiti, Calls For Stop To Bloodshed NOTE: President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who left a tumultuous Haiti under shadowy circumstances Feb. 29, has delivered an impassioned address “To the Haitian People and the World” by cell phone to a Haitian journalist in the United States working with a radio station in Berkeley, CA. In the address recorded early Friday, Aristide aims his words at Haitians, urging them to “stand in solidarity and stop the spread of death.” He delivers a detailed account of what he calls his “kidnapping” from ...
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 6:21pm PST
Washington Post: For Haiti, A Want Of Concern Why don't we care more about Haiti?
Americans love freedom. Shouldn't we care deeply about its survival in the teacup-size country whose greatest general, Toussaint L'Ouverture, helped Haiti's citizenry defeat Napoleon's 60,000-man army in 1791, in what some historians describe as history's only successful slave revolt?...
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 4:22pm PST
Tense standoff at rally a sign of things to come for Canadian troops in Haiti PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CP) - Thousands of angry supporters of exiled president Jean-Bertrand Aristide demonstrated in the Haitian capital on Friday, threatening violence unless he is restored to power. Several blamed Prime Minister Paul Martin along with U.S. and French leaders for his removal....
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 4:09pm PST
Thousands of Aristide Supporters Pour Into Streets 
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - Thousands of outraged supporters of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide poured out of Haiti's slums and into the streets on Friday, marching on the U.S. Embassy to denounce the "occupation" of their homeland and demand Aristide's return....
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 4:07pm PST
One Woman’s Lament for Haiti Haiti brings back the for gotten art of grieving as its mountains burn, its democracy is trampled by the jackbooted march of an ousted police chief who is supported and financed in the armed take over of the tiny nation by the Bush coup machinery bent on gaining corporate power and control of the impoverished nation nestled atop the Caribbean topography, criminally ousting its democratically elected leader....
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 11:33am PST
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