Narco News has an interesting article on Haiti - Arestide

[donsu]

http://www.narconews.com/Issue32/article907.html

Haiti 2004: The Great Irony
In the Country's Bicentennial Year, another US-Backed Coup

Publisher’s Note: Events of recent days can leave no doubt: the administration in Washington has done everything possible to topple a democratically elected government on the Caribbean island of Haiti, including economic embargo and support for a few hundred, well-armed, paramilitary death squads who have taken some of the country’s major cities.

Their boss, Guy Phillippe, today told reporters that he is following Washington’s lead.

“I heard the United States asked our men to stop their advance to Port-au-Prince. It’s on the news on the Net,” said Phillippe, according to a report by the British Press Association. “If they ask us, it’s because they have a better option, option for peace, and we always give peace a chance here, so we’ll wait to see for one or two days,” he said. “We will keep on sending troops but we won’t attack Port-au-Prince until we understand what the US means.”

So there you have it. The leader of this anti-democracy band of violent thugs has spoken: He will do what Washington says.

Everything that happens next over the coming hours and days will be the direct result of signals sent by the government in Washington… just as all that has happened so far has been. It’s just that, today, the leader of the anti-democracy paramilitaries admitted it in public.

Meanwhile, we bring you the historic analysis of Numa St. Louis, Haitian American radio host in Philadelphia, special to The Narco News Bulletin…
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this is a good article for those wanting some history on what is happening.

[alfredo]

1. On MSNBC they have been airing both sides of the issue.

On CNN and FAUX they have had Rummy being grilled by reporters.