How the Republicans Have Destroyed Haiti -- Again!

DEMOCRACY UNDONE
Mixed U.S. Signals Helped Tilt Haiti Toward Chaos
By WALT BOGDANICH and JENNY NORDBERG
As Haiti prepares to pick an elected president, questions
linger about the effect of U.S. foreign policy on the chaos
there.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/international/americas/29haiti.html?th&emc=th

Mr. Maguire, the Haiti expert, is skeptical. "I don't see that the U.S. is exporting democracy," he said. "I think it's more exporting a kind of fear, that if we don't do the things the way the U.S. and powerful interests in our country want us to do them, then perhaps we'll be as expendable as Mr. Aristide was."

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The lengthy NY Times report on Haiti from which I have extracted a nearly final paragraph details how the U.S. has once again betrayed democracy in this, the poorest and most disrupted nation in the Western hemisphere. Those of us who lived through the Cold War remember all too well how we supported the brutal (but anti-Communist) Duvaliers' dictatorial rule there -- Papa Doc and Baby Doc:

http://www.moreorless.au.com/killers/duvalier.html

Of late the Bush administration withheld promised economic support for the desperate economy there, meddled in the politics through bringing back to power brutal killers, removed Haiti's elected president to South Africa with the threat of imminent death to him and his family, now leaving this poor nation in economic and political chaos with daily killings and worse as outcome.

Needless to say the rest of Latin America is increasingly fed up with our interventions which have touched nearly all of the nations south of our borders. Shame!
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