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-- sending in Marines "was the right thing to do;" and
-- they only arrived after "Mr. Aristide yielded power."
It also blamed him for "contribut(ing) significantly to his own downfall (because of his) increasingly autocratic and lawless rule," and accused him of manipulating the 2000 legislative elections and not "deliver(ing) the democracy he promised."
In fact, other than a brief period after its liberating revolution (1791 - January 1, 2004), the only time Haiti was democratically governed was under Aristide and during Rene Preval's first term. Aristide, in fact, was so beloved, he was overwhelmingly reelected in 2000 with a 92% majority and would be equally supported today if allowed to run. In fact, when he's most needed and wanted, Washington won't let him return.
In media coverage of Haiti's disaster, the greater story is suppressed, the one that matters, that puts today's tragedy in context:
-- 500 years of repression; slavery under the Spanish, then French, and since the 19th century as a de facto US colony;
-- deep poverty and human misery, the worst in the hemisphere;
-- despotic rule, occupation, exploitation, starvation, disease and low life expectancy; and
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