Haiti timeline

your timeline doesn't seem to add up magbana. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Haiti_rebellion

here is an extensive timeline. http://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=the_2004_removal_of_jean-bertrand_aristide

interesting, the Venezuelan embassy, along with the US and others, denied amnesty to political leaders.


Controversy over Aristide's election in 2000
The opposition in Haiti accused the government party of election fraud in the 2000 elections.<1> as did the United States.<2>

U.S. Congressman Conyers wrote:

"Unfortunately, there were irregularities that occurred in the election and there is a post-election problem of the vote count that is threatening to undo the democratic work of the citizens of Haïti. Without doubt there were irregularities that occurred in the election which have been conceded by the CEP."<3>

The National Coalition for Haitian Rights (NCHR) says that there were delays in the distribution of voter identification cards.<4>

Aristide's supporters claim that an opposition boycott of the election was used as a ploy in order to discredit it and that they did not have anywhere near majority support.<5>

European nations suspended government-to-government assistance to Haiti. Haiti had received no help from the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank for years. The US Congress banned any U.S. assistance from being channeled through the Haitian government, codifying an existing situation.<2>

Rebellion and aftermath
In September 2003, Amiot Metayer was found dead, his eyes shot out and his heart cut out, most likely the result of machete-inflicted wounds. He was, prior to his death, the leader of the Gonaives gang known as "The Cannibal Army." After his death, his brother Buteur Metayer swore vengeance against those he felt responsible for Amiot's death—namely, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Buteur took charge of the Cannibal Army and promptly renamed it the National Revolutionary Front for the Liberation of Haiti.

On February 5, 2004, this rebel group seized control of Haiti's fourth-largest city, Gonaïves, marking the beginning of a minor revolt against Aristide. During their sack of the city, they burned the police station and looted it for weapons and vehicles, which they used to continue their campaign down the coast. By February 22, the rebels had captured Haiti's second-largest city, Cap-Haïtien. As the end of February approached, rebels continued to advance to within miles of the capital, Port-au-Prince.

The US lawyer representing Aristide claimed that the rebellion was supported by the United States and included former death squad members.<6>

After a 3-week rebellion in 2004 Aristide left Haiti as the rebels approached the capital<7> and was flown secretly via Antigua to Bangui, Central African Republic.<8>

Supreme Court Chief Justice Boniface Alexandre succeeded Aristide as interim president and petitioned the United Nations Security Council for the intervention of an international peacekeeping force. The Security Council passed a resolution the same day "aking note of the resignation of Jean-Bertrand Aristide as President of Haiti and the swearing-in of President Boniface Alexandre as the acting President of Haiti in accordance with the Constitution of Haiti" and authorized such a mission.<9> As a vanguard of the official UN force, a force of about 1,000 United States Marines arrived in Haïti within the day, and Canadian, French and Chilean troops arrived the next morning; the United Nations indicated it would send a team to assess the situation within days.b]the United Nations indicated it would send a team to assess the situation within days.

On June 1, 2004, the peacekeeping mission was passed to MINUSTAH and comprise a 7000 strength force led by Brazil and backed up by Argentina, Chile, Jordan, Morocco, Nepal, Peru, Philippines, Spain, Sri Lanka and Uruguay.<10>

Brazilian forces led the United Nations peacekeeping troops in Haiti composed of United States, France, Canada and Chile deployments. These peacekeeping troops were part of the ongoing MINUSTAH operation. On October 15, 2005 Brazil called for more troops to be sent due to the worsening situation in the country.<11>

In the Haitian general election, 2006, René Préval was elected president

in Haiti before the coup went down.

For the rest of you, who I am sure don't want to rely on Wikipedia for your information on Haiti, please check out the following websites and books:

Websites:

Haiti Action at www.haitiaction.net (run by a journalist who was on the ground well before, during, and after the coup)

Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti at www.ijdh.org (run by an attorney who used to serve with the UN in Haiti)

Haiti Analysis at www.haitianalysis.com (run by an author who has been to Haiti many times and whose website features the writing of people still on the ground in Haiti)

Books:

Randall Robinson, "An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President"
Peter Hallward, "Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment"

Also: Dr. Paul Farmer has written extensively about Haiti, including both coups against Aristide

if there was a multinational force there would not have been a coup.

the multinational force was there to prop up a coup that had NO public support. If the multinational force had not been there to threaten people in the popular neighborhoods and sometimes committing summary executions in the streets then the interim, illegal government of Latortue would have fallen within a week. The coup was a plan hatched between US, Canada, and France and about six elite families in Haiti. When the multinational force had "calmed" things down, the UN Peacekeeping effort was sent in in June 2004. Nothing magical here -- they were sent to prop up an illegal, brutal interim regime. Pres. Preval was elected and is nearly paralyzed -- when you 10,000 UN peacekeepers occupying your country, not alot of wiggle room.

and continue to spout any lie you wish. its certainly not uncommon among the Chavista crowd.

again, you claimed that Haiti was overrun by 200 people. where were the police??



one thing I'll admit to is Haiti more than likely will remain a perpetual welfare state under, at a minimum, foreign "observation".