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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
Hold off transition, Haitian prime minister says Haiti's prime minister calls for an investigation of how Jean-Bertrand Aristide left the country. Aristide, meanwhile, wants to return....
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 10:25am PST
Paul Martin's Haitian Adventure In which the Canada Steamship State sails into uncharted waters, and all we get is a cheap T shirt....
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 10:24am PST
Canada and Haiti Does the new Canadian Prime Minister support democracy in the Americas or U.S. orchestrated coups?...
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 10:20am PST
Commission will select prime minister for Haiti PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - A three-member commission Thursday began working to select a new prime minister and organize a transitional government to end the crisis that plunged Haiti into a violent tailspin and forced President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to resign....
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 10:15am PST
View from Europe - Haiti "realpolitik" Realpolitik: a ruthlessly realistic and opportunist approach to statesmanship rather than a moralistic one....
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 10:12am PST
Caribbean Nations Call For UN Investigation on Ouster of Aristide In Haiti South Africa has also expressed concerns. The country’s foreign affairs minister said if the U.S. did kidnap Aristide it will “have serious consequences and ramifications for the respect of the rule of law and democracy the world over.”...
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 10:10am PST
US faces mounting international fury over Aristide's 'forced' exit South Africa added its voice last night to a growing international chorus questioning the circumstances surrounding Jean-Bertrand Aristide's departure from Haiti and demanded an investigation into allegations that the US forcibly removed a democratically elected president from office....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 8:02pm PST
Caribbean Women Denounce the US-backed coup in Haiti We, the undersigned women of the Caribbean and of Caribbean descent, denounce the US-backed coup, which culminated in President Aristide’s removal from Haitian soil by US forces on Sunday, February 29, 2004....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 6:35pm PST
President Aristide's Phone Service Cut Off, Lawyer 2004-03-03 : Ira Kurzban, the lawyer who represents President Jean Bertrand Aristide has announced that he had just learned that the Central African Republic (CAR) has shut off President Aristide's phone service. He said that armed members of the French and CAR military are guarding President Aristide and he is not free to leave....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 6:14pm PST
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