Word: haitianization
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...Curing the Haitian Headache Haitians do not seem capable of improving their political and social conditions, so outside pressure is required [March 15]. Wiping out thugs by military intervention is only a temporary solution. Nation building must begin with setting up democratic institutions under international supervision, preferably by the U.N. and the Organization of American States. Massive continuous foreign aid would help Haitians to ultimately become capable of governing themselves. Vigilance is needed to prevent the collapse of established structures and a return to chaos, poverty and iron rule?evils that Haiti has suffered too often in its history. Remco...
...turn around. The rebel hero Philippe has long been under investigation for ties to drug trafficking. (He denies any involvement.) Some of his ex-military allies are linked to atrocities, including civilian massacres. The constitutionally mandated interim President, Supreme Court Chief Boniface Alexandre, is barely recognizable to most Haitians, though he won applause for appointing an untainted national police chief last week. Alexandre's main task, to hold a special presidential election, is vexed by the fact that Haiti's parliament shut down in January and Aristide began ruling by decree. A commission of Haitian and international representatives has been...
...irony did not escape Luis Moreno. In the blackness before dawn on Feb. 29, the U.S. official waited with Jean-Bertrand Aristide on the tarmac of the Port-au-Prince airport for the Haitian President's getaway plane. Moreno recalled that he had escorted Aristide on his triumphant, U.S.-backed return to Haiti 10 years earlier. When Moreno expressed regret at the turn of events, he says, the soon-to-be exiled leader replied, "Sometimes life is like that...
...letter of resignation as proof of a voluntary transfer of power. As his American-born wife Mildred sat in sullen silence, Aristide pulled the letter from her purse. In a single paragraph written in Creole, Aristide renounced his office: "The Constitution should not drown in the blood of the Haitian people...I agree to leave with the hope that there will be life and not death." The Boeing 757 finally arrived, and at 6:15 a.m. on Feb. 29, Aristide fled the country. "It was," Moreno recalls, "a dignified exit...
...Aristide, HIPJ types might realize that all that appears democratic is not gold. A quick glance at a Haitian history book will reveal that Papa Doc Duvalier was just as fairly elected as Aristide—a populist platform, even...