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The plan being brokered by U.N. and OAS envoy Dante Caputo is far from completion, and Aristide's return is months away -- if ever. Many suspect the military is only playing along to get the international community off its back. Hard-liners within the army, furious at the prospect of...
That will not do much to help the thousands of poor Haitians who live in fear and oppression. The current 16-member OAS monitoring team has been bottled up in the capital since September: they have no credentials, no cars and no permission to venture into the countryside. When people...
Precisely. U.N., E.C. and all the other entries in the dictionary of collective security (c.s.c.e., oas, etc., etc.) are powerless in the face of fighting. They keep the peace only in places where hostilities have already ended, places like the Golan Heights and Cyprus, where neither party is intent, at...
Although May's traditionally calm seas encouraged the renewed exodus, the real culprit is a pervasive sense of hopelessness on the island fostered by the ambivalent policies of Haiti's neighbors. Military leaders seized power last September from the popularly elected President, Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide, but the Organization of...
The eggshell fragility of the compromise quickly became evident, however, when Aristide promptly declared that the amnesty must not cover the top putsch leader, army chief Lieut. General Raoul Cedras, whom he labeled a common criminal. The vaguely worded accord, which needs to be ratified by Haiti's Parliament, was...