"The deed is done. Haiti has been raped. The act was sanctioned by the United States, Canada and France." – Editorial, Jamaica Observer
Colin Powell is “the most powerful and damaging black to rise to influence in the world in my lifetime.” – TransAfrica founder Randall Robinson
Colin Powell is "the most powerful and damaging black to rise to influence in the world in my lifetime." – TransAfrica founder Randall Robinson
"All the people that supported [Aristide] will be dead in three months." – Haiti government attorney Ira Kurzban
The new order congeals like blood on the streets of Port-au-Prince. Haiti’s dance of death begins anew, a convergence of low-life assassins, high-living compradors, preening French imperialists and global American pirates – an unspeakable bacchanal.
"I am the chief," declares Guy Philippe, the 36-year-old, Green Beret-trained, three-time coup-meister and sometime police chief. "The country is in my hands."
Not really. Haiti is in the same American and French hands that snatched President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to the Central African Republic – an involuntary destination on its face, where a French-approved military dictator sits in a palace that he seized from an elected President precisely one year ago. Pleased with the finesse of the "perfect coordination" between Paris and Washington, French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin no doubt savors the grotesque, near-symmetric poetry of this joint venture in international piracy, in which Aristide is transported from the site of one coup to another.
"The niceties of democracy were thrown out the window, and the matters of principle so vigorously defended by President Chirac and Foreign Minister de Villepin over Iraq were quickly shunted aside," said the Jamaica Observer in a March 1 editorial. "nd new Canadians went with the flow." The Caribbean Community must understand, "if they thought otherwise," that "democratically-elected leaders are easily expendable if they, at a particular time, do not fit the profile in favor with those who are strong and powerful."
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