| U.S. sponsored Coup in Haiti |
| Sun Feb 29th,
2004: Jean Bertrand Aristide, democratically elected ruler of
Haiti, is kidnapped by US forces and removed from power. Forces armed and
trained by the United States in the Dominican Republic assume power
immediately. |
| Read
this backgrounder first |
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| Many "Rebels" wore American flag
bandannas and proudly waved American flags in the streets instead of the
Haitian flag. |
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A cell phone is smuggled
to Aristide and he declares: "I
was kidnapped". |
| Aristide
Didn't Resign "The American army came to take him away at two in the
morning," the man said. "The Americans forced him out with weapons.
"It was American soldiers. They came with a helicopter and they took
the security guards. "(Aristide) was not happy. He did not want to be taken away. He did
not want to leave. He was not able to fight against the Americans..." |
| TransAfrica
founder Randall Robinson talks about the kidnapping of President
Aristide. |
| Aristide's own foreign minister was on CNN earlier today confirming the
resignation. But, come to think of it, we haven't seen any resignation
letter, we haven't seen or heard audio or video from Aristide since he
supposedly "resigned" and that's exactly what happened two
years ago in the first hours of the
Venezuela coup. The press said the president had resigned, when he had
been kidnapped |
| Jean-Bertrand
Aristide's plane stopped for food and fuel on the Caribbean island of
Antigua on Sunday before departing for South Africa, government and
airport officials said, But a South African official said
there had been no recent contact with Aristide or any offer of asylum.
An adviser in Haiti said Aristide would seek asylum in Panama, Morocco
or Taiwan. Officials in Taiwan said there were no plans to receive
Aristide, and Morocco said he was not welcome. Aristide's plane was in
Antigua for about an hour to refuel and receive some food, officials said
on condition of anonymity. No one came off the jetliner and no one boarded
it. Someone on the plane received the food at the aircraft's door |
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Related
reading: |
| The
overthrow of Haiti’s Aristide: a coup made in the USA |
| Their
names were synonymous with the U.S. “dirty wars” in Central America in
the 1980s and the Iran-contra scandal. Today, Otto Reich, Elliot Abrams
and John Negroponte have resurfaced and are helping run U.S. policy toward
Latin America again. |
| Haiti:
Different Coup, Same Paramilitary Leaders |
| Who
is Guy Philippe? |
| Gerard
Latortue, Haiti's Illegitimate Ruler |
| Bush,
Call Off Your Dogs! |
U.S.
political maneuvering behind the ouster
"On a day-to-day basis, Roger Noriega [has been] making policy, but
with a very strong role played by Otto Reich," Birns said Both Iran-contra
alumni are no strangers to overthrowing democratically elected
rulers.
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| CONGRESSWOMAN
MAXINE WATERS : "Gerard Latortue is a mere puppet installed by the
supporters of the coup d'etat that ousted the democratically-elected
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. He is totally controlled by
Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Roger Noriega,
the former chief of staff for Senator Jesse Helms and the Haiti-hater who
has used his power hold at the OAS and the State Department to carry out
the policy of right-wing conservative American and Haitian business
elites. The opposition in Haiti, led by
the Group of 184 and the so-called rebels who were thugs and criminals
in exile, were organized by these rich Haitian business elites to play
their role in the ouster of President Aristide. |
| Haitian
rebel commander, Louis-Jodel Chamblain, is a former army death squad
leader and a convicted assassin |
| 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. |
| Click
here for a video showing how this came to be (.wmv format) |
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