Arracavacas, BABOSO !
Torreblanca?
haitiana y ninguno si siquiera sugiere a nuestra amada nacion
involucrada. solo la mente sucia y descabellada del hijoeputa este del
arracavacas, para distraer la atencion de lo que pasa en venezuela que
esta cojiendo candela quedandole al tirano chavez mu pocas
oportunidades. veremos.
Haiti
Was Aristide Forced Out?
Unsigned editorial, The Jamaica Gleaner (privately owned,
independent), Kingston, Jamaica, March 4, 2004
A streetcleaner burns trash in downtown Port-au-Prince, March 3, 2004
(Photo: Roberto Schmidt/AFP-Getty Images).
This newspaper endorses the call by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
for a U.N.-led investigation into the circumstances under which
Jean-Bertrand Aristide relinquished the presidency of Haiti on Sunday.
We are not immediately clear as to what mechanism can be employed in
such an investigation, but we believe that it is important that the
international community gets to the bottom of an issue that should be
worrying for all democratic nations.
Aristide has claimed that he was kidnapped and shunted out of his
country by American forces, who already were pressuring him to resign
and quit the country.
But as we have argued before, it is, in our view, immaterial whether
American troops literally put guns to Aristide and marched him to the
plane or whether they just assured safe passage to the airport on his
way into exile.
Either way, Aristide's fate was sealed long before the events in the
early hours of Sunday. Essentially, Aristide was offered as sacrifice
on an altar of expediency by an axis of powerful nations, led by the
United States and France and including Canada.
This troika at first supported an initiative fashioned by CARICOM for
ending Haiti's political crisis that would have had Aristide sharing
power with the legitimate opposition, so-called.
But as soon as the opposition declared a rejection of the plan, they
did a volte-face, instead of pressuring the opposition, over whom many
at the center of American politics have influence and leverage.
It is curious that rather than placing pressure on the opposition to
respect the tenets of democracy, Messrs. [Colin] Powell,
Haiti
Jamaica
Foreign Military Intervention Looms over Haiti
Unsigned editorial, Haďti Progrčs (independent weekly),
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Feb. 18, 2004
Haiti: Extreme Urgency
Unsigned editorial, Hoy (independent), Santo Domingo, Dominican
Republic, Feb. 18, 2004
Mbeki's Tropical Storm
Sarah Coleman, World Press Review associate editor
Caribbean Disdain for Haiti
Unsigned editorial, The Jamaica Gleaner (independent), Kingston,
Jamaica, Jan. 2, 2003
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(pro-government), Moscow, Russia, March 5, 2004.
[Dominique] de Villepin, and [Bill] Graham [the men in charge of
foreign policy for the United States, France, and Canada,
respectively,] quickly acquiesced. But worse, they turned the screws
on Aristide. Noticeably, too, the insurgency, led by former
death-squad leaders and coup planners, erupted after Aristide
declared—for the second time—that he would embrace the power-sharing
agreement.
So Aristide is out of Haiti.
And the new Canadians, who have mastered the art of the lulling old
speak—there is the same cadence of a shared empathy from living in the
shadow of a powerful neighbor—say they would have preferred the
power-sharing arrangement to work. Even though they helped to
undermine the plan. Now they say move on to help the Haitian people.
And they offer a bill of sale which purports to show that what is now
being implemented in Haiti is the CARICOM plan. Which it is not.
CARICOM's initiative called for a U.N.-backed peacekeeping force to be
sent to Haiti while the democratically elected leader was still in
place. Instead, those with power blocked approval until Aristide was
out of Haiti. Then it was immediately approved.
Even with the fig leaf of constitutional cover with which Aristide's
removal was deposed, it was, in the view of most rational people,
nothing short of a coup. For as CARICOM said, these circumstances set
a dangerous precedent for the removal of democratically elected
governments everywhere.
That of itself is deserving of review and debate by the U.N. General
Assembly. Perhaps a special session. However, Aristide's claims of the
circumstances under which he left Haiti demand a deeper, forensic
examination.
Perhaps, too, this whole situation should again place on the agenda
the structure and rules of the Security Council with its narrow
concentration of power.