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...burly senior officer who strode into Haitian army headquarters in Port- au-Prince last week was greeted by delighted shouts of "Paulo!" But Colonel % Jean-Claude Paul, commander of the 700 elite troops at the Dessalines barracks who make up Haiti's toughest fighting force, is far from universally adored. Critics call him a harsh commander whose soldiers have fired on unarmed civilians, and the U.S. indicted him in Miami last March for drug trafficking. Although Paul denies the charge, the indictment came to symbolize a growing rupture with the U.S. that threatened Haiti's desire to advance from turmoil...
Paul's ouster removed a powerful supporter of Avril, who took office last month in a coup. But Paul's presence had made it virtually certain that Washington would continue to withhold $70 million in aid that it cut off last November after a massacre by thugs and Haitian troops aborted a presidential election...
...government airport in Cap-Haitien. An estimated 1,000 Colombians reportedly are in Haiti, some of whom are suspected of involvement in smuggling networks. "For 2 1/2 years the country has been without any effective central control, and these commanders had their own little fiefdoms," said a young Haitian social scientist. "Many were obviously interested in quick profits...
...jeeps that arrived at army headquarters in Port-au-Prince last week were greeted by incredulous stares. Seated handcuffed and rigid inside were more than 30 commanders who had been ousted by junior officers in barracks revolts around the country. Crowds in the bloodstained Haitian capital cheered as the manacled prisoners were set down before the two-story headquarters building, which quickly became known as the "parking" because of all the senior military men who were being "parked" there. Some slept on cots inside the building while waiting to be discharged...
...armed forces, but the U.S. embassy in Port-au-Prince objected to that plan because he was indicted in Miami last March on drug charges. Paul denies the allegations. However, U.S. Customs agents in Miami found 1,100 lbs. of cocaine valued at $8 million aboard a Haitian freighter last month and followed the shipment to a delivery point in the city. There they arrested two Colombians and five Haitians, one of whom carried a handy "get-out-of-jail" card that read, "Legally constituted authorities are requested to give aid and protection to the bearer." The signer...