More on the Buschschluter BBC story:
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"Mr Aristide accused the US of forcing him out - an accusation the US rejected as "absurd".
With
the crisis averted, US interest in Haiti lessened. A UN-led mission
took over from US troops in June 2004 and continues to be present
there."
There is documented proof that the US ousted Aristide (again) in 2004--if the writer cared to include it. In particular, evidence suggests that the US trained and armed the "rebels"-- comprised of former military thugs and criminals in the Dominican Republic.
Also, it is untrue that "US interest in Haiti lessened," for one, the U.S. Embassy in Haiti is described as a "behemoth" costing 75 million to build in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. The compound, finished in 2007 is the fourth largest in cost.
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"The
election of President Obama and the nomination of Bill Clinton to the
post of UN envoy to Haiti, combined with a period of relative political
stability, led to a strengthening of US-Haitian ties."
Also, The
Buschschluter is not being candid, she is glossing over the fact that
the UN was brought in to "stabilize" Haiti--only after the "int'l
community' caused the chaos! The US, France & Canada (see the Ottawa Initiative)
destabilized Haiti, then by virtue of their oppressive, unbalanced
power as voting members of the UN Security Council--brought in a brutal
(proxy) military occupation to "protect its interests" and squash
resistance and democracy.
It's almost laughable the propaganda
that passes for "news" in the mainstream media. The BBC had some shred
of integrity for real investigative journalism (ex. Greg Palast)-- but
this tears it for me. Is it any wonder that newspapers are going out of
business, and increasingly people are depending on blogs, political
PACs and unembedded journalists for the truth?
People are waking up to the fact that they cannot trust the media to tell the truth and increasingly they are doing their own research to fact-check stories like this that masquerade as journalism but are in fact littered with propagandist spin.
In writing this, I came across an exposà © by The New York Times which told of the U.S. Role in the 2004 Coup against President Aristide. Well, I wasn't aware of this investigative piece, but NYT, it's just literally too little too late. The equivocating title tells the story, "Mixed U.S. Signals Helped Tilt Haiti Toward Chaos."
The Obama administration will likely not welcome a return of Aristide, given the tepid response from Secretary Clinton on news that Aristide's party Fanmi Lavalas has been barred from participation in scheduled Congressional and Senate elections in Haiti.
While Fanmi Lavalas Haiti's most popular party was barred, Guy Phillipe's Front for National Reconstruction was approved to run in the elections by Preval's election council. Guy was trained by US Special Forces in Ecuador. Philippe and former death squad leader Louis Jodel Chamblain lead "rebels" who were the muscle for the coup d'etat machinery which ousted Aristide in 2004.
"A leader of one of the many community organizations affiliated with Aristide's Fanmi Lavalas and who spoke on condition of anonymity stated, "It's clear to us that Obama and Preval never really intended to arrest Philippe but only wanted to send him a message to shut his mouth. While Fanmi Lavalas has been barred from the next elections in 2010, Philippe's party has been accepted to run by Preval's election council. Now Philippe openly holds an FRN meeting in the capital"where's the DEA? He's right here if they really want him. Obama and Preval are hypocrites."
The Obama administration doesn't have Condoleezza Rice at their disposal to warn Aristide to stay out of this hemisphere, but maybe Obama could assign UN Ambassador Susan Rice the task.
UPDATE: 01.17.2010(Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher).
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