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> The Haiti Crisis: Aristide Is Not the Issue

5 June 2004, 05:18

Bill,
I perfectly understood your point. But you have to accept that Aristide got caught in his own WEBB. He made a pact with the DEVILS and he tried to make fools out of them. How did you expect them to react?
Personally I think Aristide was at a dead-end at the time THEY gave him the coup-de-grace. Haiti was simply too financially weak to survive the economic restrictions brought about by the bogus elections of 2000.
Ironically, Aristide had a taste of his own medicine. Remember, he was the advocate of the famous EMBARGO TOTAL-CAPITAL to get rid of Raoul Cedras...
To make matter worse, he tried to survive by allowing the drug dealers to flourish...He could not convert the proceeds into developmental programs. Lavalas could not explain the spontaneous wealth. Remember, they were the poor ones in 1990. Where did they get that money in 2000?
As far as I am concerned they must be punished to the extent of the law. Aristide simply should not promise something he did not have. It was a matter of time to run out of subterfuges.
IN THE HAITIAN’S PREDICAMENT WE ARE GOING TO LOVE THE DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES WITHOUT ARISTIDE.
Addie CORNET