Word: haitian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...situation in Haiti is sad but predictable. Like many other Carribean basin countries, Haiti's economy has not changed in a decade and a half; Haitian farmers grow thousands of acres of sugarcane for which there is no market in either Europe or the United States. Moreover, when Reagan's Carribean Basin Initiative failed to stimulate growth and create new markets in the mid-1980s, Haiti's faltering economy crumbled. With the collapse, poverty, disease and hunger wracked the population, and misery became the easiest thing to find in the country...
...hearings; candidate Clinton attacked this dictum as both "immoral" and "illegal" throughout the campaign. In January 1993, President Clinton proclaimed that he would temporarily continue the Bush policy until an "acceptable" alternative is found. In June of the same year, Clinton announced economic sanctions would be imposed on the Haitian regime...
...what have we learned so far? Millions of people languish in a brutal military dictatorship in Haiti. Thousands more try to flee to the U.S. every day. President Clinton linked himself to helping the Haitian boat people during the campaign, although many Americans are opposed to allowing those people in the country. There is no place else that will accept them besides the U.S. That leaves two questions left: what ought to be done and what will be done...
...trouble in justifying military action of that kind. Though Aristide last week called for "swift and definitive action," he indicated in an interview with TIME and two other publications that invasion was still not what he had in mind. He mentioned correctly that U.S. pressure had helped dislodge previous Haitian strongmen, such as "Baby Doc" Duvalier and Henri Namphy, without the use of force. (He failed to add that the same corrupt and repressive clique continued in power...
...worlds. Burt Wides, an American lawyer working for Aristide, counters with a suspicion that the talk of invasion is a smoke screen behind which the Clinton Administration is trying to make a deal for a "center-right coalition"; Cedras and some friends would resign, but army thugs and the Haitian business elite would retain enough power in a new government, whether headed theoretically by Aristide or by someone else, to block any real reform...