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A Typical American Coup
When it comes to removing heads of state by indirect means, the US still has what it takes to get the job done...
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 8:12am PST
Haiti: U.S. Return of Asylum Seekers Is Illegal
(New York, March 2, 2004) — The U.S. government’s return of hundreds of fleeing Haitians to the capital Port-au-Prince violates their right not to be sent back to a place where their lives or freedom are endangered, Human Rights Watch said today....
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 8:10am PST
I was kidnapped - Aristide
Asked whether his departure was in the best interests of Haiti, Aristide said: "Of course not, because no one should force an elected president to move to avoid bloodshed."...
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 8:08am PST
Venezuela: Appeal from the HANDS OFF VENEZUELA Campaign
Venezuela...
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 8:07am PST
UN Officials Back US Kidnapping Of Elected Leader!
The United Nations has said it was "very clear" that former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide had resigned and had not been forced into exile by a coup d'etat....
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 8:05am PST
GATS: From Public Services to Commodities
"Like health care, education is an enormous business.. If the partial privatization of the European educational system occurs, the unviersity as it was long understood as a place of teaching, learning and research may be gone.." translated from the German...
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 6:12am PST
US Sponsored Coup d'Etat The Destabilization of Haiti
The armed insurrection which contributed to unseating President Aristide on February 29th 2004 was the result of a carefully staged military-intelligence operation....
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 1:59am PST
Updates about the Puerto Rican Movement
The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign has updated our website for the month of
March and we wanted to call attention to the following updates!!...
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2004 10:48pm PST
PJ Patterson, Prime Minister of Jamaica, Speaks Out Against US Coup in Haiti
PJ Patterson, chairman of the Caribbean regional group, Caricom, has been the most outspoken critic of what he described as the removal of Mr Aristide....
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2004 7:59pm PST
In phone call arranged by Jesse Jackson, Aristide says he was forced to flee
ATLANTA, Ga. (AP) - Jean-Bertrand Aristide claims he was forced to leave Haiti by U.S. military forces, according to a telephone interview with the exiled Haitian president Monday.
Aristide was put in contact with The Associated Press by Rev. Jesse Jackson following a news conference, where the civil rights leader called on Congress to investigate Aristide's ouster. When asked if he left Haiti on his own, Aristide quickly answered: "No. I was forced to leave...
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2004 6:54pm PST
CNN: Aristide says U.S. deposed him in 'coup d'etat'
(CNN) -- Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide said Monday he was forced to leave Haiti in a "coup d'etat" by the United States....
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2004 6:42pm PST
TransAfrica calls for investigation and return of Aristide
TransAfrica Forum Urges Congressional Investigation into Aristide’s Ouster
amid Claims that the U.S. Forced the Haitian President to Leave...
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2004 5:40pm PST
Report from Haiti: School Threatened by Opposition Thugs
Haitian activists call for "urgent action": Haitians in Haiti are being slaughtered....
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2004 4:30pm PST
Aristide: 'Marines forced me to leave'
In the end, Jean-Bertrand Aristide left Haiti the same way he came in 10 years ago: at the pleasure of the United States, under escort from the Marines, with the streets of Port-au-Prince at the mercy of former army officers and paramilitary death squad commanders....
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2004 3:43pm PST
Bringing Hell to Haiti, Part 1
by David Edwards and Media Lens
www.dissidentvoice.org
March 1, 2004...
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2004 1:43pm PST
Another blow to democracy in homeland, local Haitians lament
'Le mal est Infini'. Aristide supporters blame world powers for failure to support elected president...
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2004 10:56am PST
Haiti as Target Practice: How the US Press Missed the Story
"The fact that the group in charge of Haiti policy today in the State Department has been literally gunning for Aristide since before his initial election as a champion of democracy in 1990 has been left all but unmentioned by the US press."...
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2004 10:29am PST
"I Was Kidnaped"--Aristide
"I was kidnaped by U.S. Marines and forced to leave Haiti," Jean-Bertrand Aristide told Congresswoman Maxine Waters in a phone call Monday morning from the Central African Republic. "I did not resign." Photo: President Aristide lofting flag during bicentennial celebration....
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2004 10:24am PST
Callout to International Mobilization Against the FTAA/bFTA's for April 17
This is a callout from the anti-FTAA campaign based in Quito, Ecuador. Recognising that bilateral free trade agreements with the United States have replaced the FTAA as the new and immediate threat for the Andean and Central American nations, we call out for an international network of solidarity to fight neoliberalist politics and mobilize on April 17 international day of peasant struggles...
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2004 8:41am PST