Aristide's Haiti
What is going on down there!
Aristide--Pro
By Jim Naureckas -- November/December 1994
Enemy Ally: The Demonization of Jean-Bertrand Aristide
http://www.fair.org/extra/9411/aristide-demonization.html
Haiti Opposition
http://www.blackcommentator.com/77/77_haiti.html
HOW THE U.S. IMPOVERISHED HAITI
(Reparations For Caucasians)
http://www.godswater2002.com/TESTIMONYFILES/haiti.htm
The U.S.-Haiti Connection -- Rich Companies, Poor Workers
by Eric Verhoogen -- Multinational Monitor, April 1996
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Caribbean/US_Haiti_Connection.html
Workers in Port-au-Prince estimate that to satisfy the most basic nutritional needs of their family, they need to spend $1.67 per day. In addition, workers pay 40 to 67 cents per day for transportation, depending on how far away they live from their workplace, and 47 cents for a small lunch. To rent a small one- or two-room shack in a slum in Port-au-Prince costs between $100 and $133 for a six-month period. To send a child to the cheapest schools costs between $60 and $133 per year, depending on the school and the age of the child. Thus, to satisfy minimum needs for food, shelter, and education, a family in Port-au-Prince must spend-at the very least-$24.20 per week.
However, a minimum-wage worker working 8 hours per day, 6 days a week in Haiti earns $14.40 per week. In other words, a full-time minimum-wage salary provides less than 60 percent of a family's basic needs. A salary of $1 per day, common in apparel plants producing for U.S. companies, provides less than 25 percent of a family's basic needs.
The U.S. vs. Haiti
By Kevin Pina, Black Commentator (parts 1-3) latest 5/12/03
Dec 5, 2003, 11:12
http://www.ocnus.net/cgi-bin/exec/view.cgi?archive=36&num=8836
Amiot Metayer sacrificed much following Haiti�s last military coup. He dropped out of law school because of his determination that democracy and Aristide should return to Haiti. He built clandestine networks of supporters who would plaster Gonaives with the president�s photo when such a simple act of resistance could easily get you tortured and killed. Metayer was also one of the pioneers of �flash demonstrations?against the dictatorship where hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of Lavalas supporters would appear out of nowhere to protest for five minutes and then disappear before the military and their henchmen arrived on the scene.
Aristide--Con
Dealing With Too Much A Tin-pot Totalitarian Dictator Aristide
By YVES A. ISIDOR
http://www.wehaitians.com/dealing%20with%20too%20much%20a%20tin%20pot%20totalitarian%20dictator%20aristide.html
HAITI: NO AID WITHOUT ACCOUNTABILITY
By Stephen Johnson, Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C.
http://www.wehaitians.com/haiti%20no%20aid%20without%20accountability.html
The Real Bertrand Aristide -- by William F. Jasper -- January 10, 1994
http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1994/vo10no01.htm
Aristide--Middle
Haiti: The Fall of the House of Aristide
Peter Dailey's review of:
Haiti's Predatory Republic: The Unending Transition to Democracy
by Roger Fatton Jr.
http://www.wehaitians.com/haiti%20the%20fall%20of%20the%20house%20of%20aristide.html
Embassy of France
Statements made by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson
Daily Press Briefing -- (Paris, April 8, 2003)
http://www.info-france-usa.org/news/briefing/us080403.asp
Q - The Haitian president asked France yesterday to pay reparations in the amount of $5 billion. Do you have comment?
I can say that since President Aristide��s return to power, the international community has allocated a total amount of more than 2 billion euros to Haiti, of that more than two hundred million euros is French aid. Unfortunately, in spite of this massive commitment, scant results have been seen in terms of development. Bad governance and deteriorating security linked to the current serious political conflicts are the main reasons for the country��s social and economic drift.
In spite of the political crisis in Haiti France is conscious the Haitian people are suffering, and we have maintained our aid in full by redirecting it to actions that directly benefit the people, especially the peasants. France regrets that the present attitude of the Haitian government does not allow for more cooperation.
Haiti's politicians flirt with disastrous instability
By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
http://www.amcostarica.com/010904.htm
Opposition to Aristide has grown dramatically with opponents saying his supporters have recruited
criminal gangs to attack opponents, and have used government agencies to harass those who do not support him. Opponents also say the Aristide government has done little to alleviate Haiti's extreme poverty.
Government officials like Leslie Voltaire, a member of Aristide's cabinet responsible for Haitians living overseas, dispute the charges, saying Aristide is no dictator and that his opponents have nothing to fear from the government.
"I do not think they should be afraid of my government because a lot of people in the opposition were in exile under the Duvalier dictatorship, and they could not speak," he said. "Now you see all the media is talking about what they want to and there is no censorship or censorship on marching, except when you march and you are not given a permit to march, which is given in every democracy. I do not think they should be afraid, this is not a dictatorship."
Haiti��s bicentennial marked by pro- and anti-gov��t rallies
BY STEVE WOLF -- February 2, 2004
http://themilitant.com/2004/6804/680451.html
Brief History of Haiti
http://welovehaiti.com/history.htm
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