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After addressing the OAS last week, deposed Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide met for 45 minutes in his Washington hotel suite with TIME's Amy Wilentz, author of The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier. Excerpts from the interview:
A. I am not surprised that the U.S. has sent Marines to Guantanamo in order to be ready to protect the lives of its citizens living in Haiti. But the U.S. must also allow the OAS to follow its peaceful route. We are looking for ways to liberate the Haitian...
This coup, which sent Haiti's first freely elected President into exile after eight months in office, was particularly galling to the U.S. and the Organization of American States. The OAS had concluded at a meeting in Chile only four months ago that all 34 of its members were now...
Just what action would be required to reverse the coup was the question addressed by an emergency session of the OAS in Washington. Aristide flew to the U.S. capital and urged the hemisphere's assembled foreign ministers to clamp enough nonmilitary pressure on Haiti to restore him to office. He...
Baker's OAS speech got Moscow's attention, and Pavlov flew to Washington for an emergency consultation. Tempers cooled, but only briefly. The worst was about to happen.