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> The Haiti Crisis: Aristide Is Not the Issue

5 June 2004, 05:40

Mr Cornet,

You get it right. Unfortunately Mr. Fletcher wants to defend Aristide and ignore the participation
(being documented) of Aristide’s inner circle in illegal drug trafficking.

Mr. Fletcher prefers to ignore that drug kingpin Jacques Ketant is the godfather of one of the
two daughters of Aristide, years after Ketant was identified as an international drug dealer.

From dirt-poor to multi-millionaire, with no visible means of legally earned income, Aristide and
many of his associates would have difficulties explaining the source of their new-found wealths.

Is Mr. Fletcher proposing that Lavalas-supported drug trafficking should have been allowed to
flourish further ?

Is Mr. Fletcher wanting to argue that it was O.K. for Aristide to ignore both verbal and written
commitments ?

Lack of credibility helps de-stabilize Aristide more than anything else.

I. Stephen