Haitians march to demand Aristide's return (5000)

[struggle4progress]

May 19, 2005

Port-au-Prince - More than 5 000 supporters of ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide have marched in Haiti's capital to demand his return from exile in South Africa.

Speeches by Aristide blared from loudspeakers, protesters carried flags plastered with stickers supporting the former priest, and some held photographs of him. <snip>

The protesters began the demonstration in the slums of Cité Soleil and Bel Air, converging on one of the main roads to Port-au-Prince.

They chanted "Aristide left and came back, now he's coming back again", referring to a military coup that ousted him in 1991 and his restoration to power in 1994. <snip>

http://www.thestar.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=132&fArticleId=2526241

[paineinthearse]

1. Wonder if Powell will ever come clean

....about his involvement in the kidnapping of a duly elected executive of a sovereign country???

:shrug:

[mom cat]

2. Don't hold your breath!

[noiretextatique]

3. freedom, democracy, and all that crap

:eyes: of course, there's no oil in haiti

[reprehensor]

4. Go Haiti, Go!

Those people are hatin' it right now. Good on them for standing up.

[Moderator]

5. kick to combine

[seemslikeadream]

6. Aristide backers march in Haiti

There was little sign of violence at the well-attended march
About 5,000 people loyal to the former President of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, have taken to the streets to demand his return from exile.
They marched through the capital, Port-au-Prince, waving banners and listening to speeches calling for Mr Aristide's return from South Africa.

Dozens of UN peacekeepers watched the march amid concerns that armed clashes might break out with local police. Meanwhile, Chile has decided to keep troops in Haiti until the year's end.

The decision on the 589 troops, taken by Chile's Senate, comes ahead of a general UN decision on whether to extend the mandate of peacekeeping forces based in Haiti.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4561811.stm

[struggle4progress]

7. The politics of ersatz gentility (Jamaica Observer)

<snip> On Wednesday, the Haitians commemorated that day in 1803 when Dessalines finally managed to unite all the Haitian rebels under his leadership and a new flag. <snip>

As I write, the Haitian prime minister is caged without reason, charge or trial, on the point of death. He gives to his American, French and Canadian captors the same response Dessalines gave to the French two centuries ago: Liberty or Death!

Meanwhile, the American governor of Haiti, Ambassador Foley, backed by the racist troika of Bolton, Noriega and Reich, is busy pretending that he neither sees, hears nor smells any evil in Haiti, and he speaks no evil because he cannot speak at all without giving the game away.

In the United States, Noriega and Reich were last week frantically attempting damage control as elements of the normally quiescent and compliant press managed to summon the nerve to advise the president that, no, he really should not give asylum to one of the most notorious and bloody terrorists of the last century, Luis Posada Carriles. <snip>

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/html/20050521T190000-0500_80917_OBS_THE_POLITICS_OF_ERSATZ_GENTILITY.asp

[ausiedownunderground]

8. Do our Canadian friends have any comments on this????

Canadian troops were used as the human face of Freedom & Democracy in this little US adventure!
What do Canadian's think of their "handy" work now???? Maybe its time to "Pull Out". The people of Haiti seem to be getting "off their arses" and doing something.
Great opportunity for Chavez and Castro to start shipping AK-103's. Could get "nasty"!!!

[scarletlib]

9. Brave People