Word: haitian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sweet Mickey" and the Haitian Drug Connection...
During preparations for Jean-Bertrand Aristide's return, customs officials in Miami were seizing 100-kilo loads of cocaine -- instead of the typical 5-to- 50-kilo shipments -- off Haitian freighters. "We surmise the traffickers were trying to get it out in case Aristide did come back into power and try to put some curbs on this," says one customs agent. While a handful of Colombians in Haiti control the drugs, the U.S. is more interested in the role of Michel Francois, the self-anointed police chief of Port-au-Prince. "Sweet Mickey" controls the local docks...
...music with a voodoo beat. Through the hours of darkness cars rumble up to the Normandie Restaurant and the political offices next door. Scores of "attaches," the heavily armed civilian auxiliaries to the police, receive their orders and roar away on the violent and bloody missions that keep the Haitian military regime in power...
...Aristide's character and ability, reinforced last week when a senior CIA official, at Helms' urging, briefed 13 Senators on the substance of the charges. Senate Republican leader Bob Dole left the secret meeting saying he had found it "very disturbing." Aristide's counsel, Michael Barnes, denied that the Haitian President had ever been treated for any mental problems or authorized the killing of any political opponents. In fact, there is little doubt that on at least one occasion Aristide did encourage necklacing. But even if he was not a full-time democrat, Haiti's overall human-rights record improved...
...functioning democracy is required to keep Haitians at home, establishing one may be beyond U.S. means. The Marines could, in theory, invade the island, arrest the military and police chiefs, and return Aristide to office. The last time the Marines did something like that, back in 1915, they stayed for almost two decades and achieved very little in the way of nation building. Aristide, who knows how sour the word Marine is on Haitian tongues, has not asked for an invasion. Still, the troops could...