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U.S. stages 'regime change' in Haiti
AS WE GO TO press, we have learned that the
Bush regime has succeeded in staging another “regime change,” this
time in Haiti.
The regime and its media mouthpieces have
presented this coup d’état as a case where the democratically
elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was forced to resign and
flee the country due to popular resistance.
The truth, however, is far different.
According to eyewitnesses, at 5:30 a.m.,
Sunday, Feb. 29, 2004, members of a U.S. Marine Corps detachment
kidnapped Aristide and held him “incommunicado” until he signed a
statement of resignation.
This act of “regime change” by the U.S. was
done with the full complicity of the other Great Powers, most
notably France — which had gained an undeserved reputation during
the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq.
Within hours of Aristide’s abduction, the
United Nations Security Council unanimously passed a resolution
sanctioning the removal of the elected Haitian government and
authorizing a multinational force headed by the U.S.
There is little doubt that this act of “regime
change” is meant to close the book on the decade-long attempt at
solidifying a democratic republic in the Caribbean country.
It was only 10 years ago that then-President
Bill Clinton sent soldiers to Haiti to aid in the transition from
the rightwing regime of “Baby Doc” Duvalier and install Aristide.
Under the Bush regime, Aristide is a liability
to the plan to make the world safe for Halliburton and Bechtel, so
the remaining elements of the Duvalier dictatorship have been reborn
as the “Democratic Convergence.”
As the saying goes, one person’s terrorist is
another person’s freedom fighter.
Below is an initial statement adopted by the
State Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of Michigan. Be
sure to check out the next issue of the Michigan Socialist
for more information on this unfolding event.
— The Editor
THE SOCIALIST PARTY of Michigan condemns in the
strongest way the Bush Administration’s collaboration with
right-wing death squads to carry out “regime change” against the
popularly elected government of Haiti. We call upon all
working-class, left and progressive organizations to join with us in
protesting against Bush’s decision to send the Marines to Haiti, and
in demanding that all American troops stationed outside of U.S.
borders be brought home alive without delay. |
