A Year Since Aristide, Haiti Impoverished

[struggle4progress]

Sunday February 6, 2005 9:16 PM
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By PETER PRENGAMAN
Associated Press Writer

<snip> The men who forced out Haiti's first democratically elected president remain armed and powerful. They may yet get their demand for the restoration of an army blamed for coups and the slayings and maimings of thousands of people before Aristide disbanded it in 1995. <snip>

The community wants an international probe into Aristide's charges that the United States forced him out. U.S. officials say they did not help Aristide keep power because he was profiting from a brisk business in cocaine smuggling - charges Aristide denies.

With scores of officials and supporters of Aristide's Lavalas Family party in overcrowded jails, Latortue denies his government is conducting a witch hunt. <snip>

Business leaders say the government has balanced the budget and normalized foreign debt payments but created no new jobs. Two-thirds of the work force are unemployed or scrape by on odd jobs. <snip>

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4782037,00.html

[Mika]

1. FREEDOM! (Bush style, w/Canada's help)

:puke:

[Igel]

2. Kto kogo.

New dogs, same tricks.

"Latortue denies his government is conducting a witch hunt."

Right.