Word: bertrande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chunks of flesh are missing from their buttocks. Pregnant women with deep bruises on their bellies. Young girls gone vacant-eyed after rape. The pictures, the man says, are proof of brutal government repression in Haiti, in this case the coastal city of Gonaives, against supporters of Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the President ousted in a 1991 military coup...
After months of turmoil over U.S. policy in Haiti, Lawrence Pezzullo, the U.S. special envoy to Haiti, was forced to resign.The Administration has come under increasing fire for its unsuccessful policy, enduring public protests by members of Congress and harsh criticism from the deposed Haitian President, the Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide...
HAITI. The Administration's inability to devise any strategy for returning freely elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power, while a trade embargo impoverishes the populace without dislodging the renegade government, has earned the contempt of both sides. From his exile in Washington, Aristide last week denounced Clinton's policy of picking up would-be refugees at sea and sending them back as "racist" and a signal that American leaders "don't care." Six members of Congress got themselves arrested on the White House lawn for protesting the refugee policy. The Administration had earlier said it would...
Haiti's exiled President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, denounced President Clinton's policy of forcibly turning back Haitian refugees as "a racist policy." Shortly after Aristide's remarks, U.S. officials announced that they would ask the U.N. to impose a complete economic embargo on Haiti in an effort to restore Aristide to the presidency.The Administration permitted 406 Haitians to come ashore in Florida, but officials termed the landing an ( emergency rescue...
Trade and travel sanctions imposed by the U.N. and the Organization of American States were designed to punish the military and its elite backers for overthrowing President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in September 1991. Yet even a modicum of money buys a pleasant life-style in Haiti. Ships from Europe keep stores in middle-class Petionville stocked with Italian artichoke hearts and Georges Duboeuf wine from France. Last December the so-called friends of Haiti -- the U.S., France, Canada and Venezuela -- warned the military that they would seek a worldwide U.N. embargo on all commercial goods to Haiti unless progress...