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News Roundup On The Haiti Coup UNDERNEWS
MAR 2, 2004
FROM THE PROGRESSIVE REVIEW...
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 8:50am PST
Barbara Lee Criticizes U.S. "Destabilization and Undermining of Democracy in Haiti&qu Rep. Barbara Lee compares the administration's policies in Haiti to the invasion of Iraq and talks about the systematic embargo and the disallowance of funding for humanitarian projects in Haiti such as health education and clean water efforts....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 8:43am PST
House Members Blast Administration For Haiti Policies Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noriega was grilled by Congressional Democrats yesterday for the Bush administration's handling of the crisis in Haiti at a hearing of the House International Relations subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere. We play excerpts of the hearing....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 8:42am PST
Caribbean nations demand Haiti inquiry KINGSTON, JAMAICA - Fourteen Caribbean nations called Wednesday for an independent international inquiry into Jean-Bertrand Aristide's claim that the United States forced him out of office....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 8:40am PST
Mainstream Media Fails Itself On Haiti On February 29, Richard Boucher from the U.S. Department of State released a press release claiming that Jean Bertrand Aristide had resigned as president of Haiti and that the United State facilitated his safe departure. Within hours the major broadcast news stations in the United States including CNN, Fox, ABC, NBC, CBS, and NPR were reporting that Aristide had fled Haiti. An Associated Press release that evening said "Aristide resigns, flees into exile." The next day headlines in ...
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 8:37am PST
Rep. Maxine Waters Says Aristide Is Being Held Like a Prisoner Rep. Maxine Waters Says Aristide Is Being Held Like a Prisoner...
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 8:34am PST
Bush fails democracy in Haiti Last year, U.S. Ambassador to Haiti Brian Dean Curran declared, "The United States accepts President (Jean-Bertrand) Aristide as the constitutional president of Haiti for his term of office ending in 2006."...
Posted: Wed, Mar 3, 2004 11:23pm PST
Haiti: The Yuppie Silence The "progressive" community in America has always and will continue to flabbergast my perception of know-all. As one who commonly identifies with the monolithic-activist-culture, furthermore a proud son of Haiti (albeit Diaspora) striving to fulfill the prodigal Caribbean prophecy, an anomaly has manifested itself on the crown of this dualistic self-perception; grant me the luxury of expounding as to why....
Posted: Wed, Mar 3, 2004 11:22pm PST
Haiti Updates From Flashpoints (audio/mpeg 10.3MB) Today on Special Two Hour Edition of Flashpoints: Haiti's U.S. supported killers continue to exact their bloody revenge against leaders of Lavalas. We'll have special reports from our correspondent Kevin Pina, on the ground in Port-au-Prince about these latest killings and about the treatment of the Prime Minister. We'll hear about a tax on community organizations and we'll counteract the massive disinformation campaign being carried out against President Aristide by U.S. architects of the ...
Posted: Wed, Mar 3, 2004 7:34pm PST
Neoliberal Jeffrey Sachs alarmed over Haiti coup Don't fall for Washington's spin on Haiti
By Jeffrey Sachs, Financial Times - March 1, 2004
The crisis in Haiti is another case of brazen US manipulation of a small,
impoverished country with the truth unexplored by journalists. In the nearly
universal media line on the Haitian revolt, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide
was portrayed as an undemocratic leader who betrayed Haiti's democratic
hopes and thereby lost the support of his erstwhile backers....
Posted: Wed, Mar 3, 2004 12:32pm PST
Fmr. U.S. Special Forces Officer Describes Arresting Current Coup Leader in 1994 Stan Goff, who spent 26 years in the U.S. Armed Forces in elite Ranger, Airborne and Special Forces counterterrorist units describes arresting coup leader Jean Tatoune in the first coup in 1994. FRAPH veteran Tatoune was convicted of gross violations of human rights and murder in the massacre in the pro-democracy region of Raboteau....
Posted: Wed, Mar 3, 2004 10:12am PST
The Haitian Army Returns: Who Is Guy Philippe? The feared Haitian army, disbanded by Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is making a comeback. We take an in-depth look at the paramilitary leader who now claims to be in control of the Haitian police and military: Guy Philippe, a former Haitian police chief who was trained by US Special Forces in Ecuador in the early 1990s....
Posted: Wed, Mar 3, 2004 10:11am PST
Will the UN and OAS Recognize Aristide or Coup Leaders? We speak with the Center for Constitutional Rights' Michael Ratner about who the United Nations and Organization should recognize as the legitimate government of Haiti under international law and we take a look at the English translation of Aristide's resignation letter which he says is altered to omit a key phrase....
Posted: Wed, Mar 3, 2004 10:10am PST
Haitian Consul General Says Aristide Still President In a Democracy Now! exclusive, Consul General of the Haitian government in New York Harry Fouche recognizes the Aristide government as legitimate saying Jean Bertrand Aristide is still president of Haiti and Yvon Neptune is still his prime minister.
Harry Fouche, Consul General of the Haitian government in New York....
Posted: Wed, Mar 3, 2004 10:08am PST
One US-French Coup to Another: Central African Republic Aristide's exile is governed by another France-backed military junta....
Posted: Wed, Mar 3, 2004 9:37am PST
Caricom's moment after coup against Aristide CARIBBEAN Community heads of government were locked in intense deliberations at yesterday's emergency summit in Kingston, Jamaica as more disclosures were surfacing about the coup that toppled the Aristide presidency in Port-au-Prince....
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 9:19pm PST
Ramsey Clark On Haiti: "A Clear Demonstration of U.S. Regime Change By Armed Aggressi We speak with former Attorney General Ramsey Clark Clark about the overthrow of the democratically-elected President Jean Bertrand Aristide. During the 1991 coup, Clark traveled to Haiti several times in an effort to restore him to power. [Includes transcript]...
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 7:32pm PST
Black Caucus Vows to Find Out if U.S. Engineered Coup Against Aristide We speak with actor, activist and TransAfrica chair Danny Glover about President Aristide's claims that the U.S. forced him out of office as well as Rep. Barbara Lee who says she plans to raise the issue at a meeting of the House International Relations Committee tomorrow....
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 7:28pm PST
U.S. Psy-Ops Exposed, South Africa Rejects Washington's Claim Aristide Was Denied Asylum In a Democracy Now! exclusive, South African ambassador to the United Nations, Dumisani Kumalo, says President Aristide did not request asylum or exile in South Africa, nor did the South African government deny him asylum or exile as alleged by the US State Department and The New York Times....
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 7:27pm PST
Caribbean leaders gather in Jamaica to discuss Haiti crisis KINGSTON, Jamaica - Caribbean leaders, meeting in an emergency summit Tuesday in Jamaica to discuss Haiti's crisis, also hoped to clear up conflicting reports surrounding the ouster of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide....
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 7:11pm PST
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