Word: haitien
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...invasion's first hours, Marines would seal the capital's port and perhaps take control of Cap Haitien, a major town on the country's northern coast. Pentagon officials would be nervously watching to see if Haitians threatened Americans there and in the seaside towns of Port Salut and Jeremie. In fact, Pentagon officials say they may seek White House approval for a pre- invasion incursion to evacuate all Americans who want to leave Haiti; they would be picked up at preselected rendezvous points. Such a ploy could have an added bonus: by showing that the Americans are serious...
...economic embargo has hurt as well. There is no electricity along most of the northern coast, even in major towns like Cap Haitien. At night women sell their wares by the light of kerosene lanterns and candles. Because most Haitians are now so poor that they cannot even afford the batteries for their transistor radios, few actually heard the brief Creole-language spots aired last week by the American embassy on local radio, which warned listeners that "the U.S. is not a land with streets paved with gold...
...said that last Monday, within hours of returning to his family in Carrefour on the southern fringes of the Haitian capital, a soldier and a man in civilian clothes appeared at his door. Addressing him by name, they asked where he had been for the past two months. "Cap Haitien," Marcelin answered, referring to a city in north Haiti. "You were over there in Guantanamo, not Cap Haitien," one of the men responded. "O.K., we'll come for you. We'll come and kill you." Soon after that, Marcelin boarded a bus back to Port-au-Prince and went into...