US Discouraging Aristide Return to Haiti

The United States Thursday expresses opposition to the possible return to Haiti of deposed former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. U.S. officials say in the wake of this week’s arrival in Haiti of former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, the return of another controversial figure is the "last thing" Haiti needs.

U.S. officials are making clear their concern that the arrival of Jean-Claude Duvalier, and the contemplated return of Mr. Aristide, threaten to upset Haiti’s efforts at earthquake recovery and to sort out its troubled election process.

Mr. Aristide, Haiti’s first democratically-elected president, has been living in exile in South Africa since fleeing the country in 2004 amid a popular uprising.

In the wake of the surprise return last Sunday of Mr. Duvalier, Mr. Aristide has declared that he also wants to return home to help his country, and said he hopes his South African hosts will make that possible.

U.S. officials are declining comment about whether they are pressing South Africa to prevent Mr. Aristide’s return.

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/americas/US-Discouraging-Aristide-Return-to-Haiti--114314494.html

Also in Spanish - Denuncian que plan estadounidense pretende impedir regreso de Aristide a Haití - http://laradiodelsur.com/?p=8025

like "Baskethead" can insist upon returning, who only helped himself and a tiny few elites, it's appropriate the people's own elected President was allowed to finish his goddamned elected term, WITHOUT interference from the U.S.-outfitted, trained, sponsored death squads.

What a shame _{Bush I} and _{Bush II} were allowed to run him out of his own country twice, trampling on the rights of the Haitian electorate to have their candidate allowed to an unimpeded full term at the wheel of their government, as the law demands.

What a shame the I.R.I. has actually been controlling so much of Haiti's destiny in the last years. Ruled from outside their own country, with racist a-holes calling the shots in a country they have destroyed. I hope the scums behind this bullying will all step into open manholes crossing streets.

US is worried about the TV scenes of his cheering supporters, lest people wonder why we deposed him in the first place.

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Acting Deputy State Department Spokesman Mark Toner, meanwhile said the focus should be on Haiti’s future, and getting it through the election process, and that exiled leader Aristide "is not really part of that equation."

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Yeah, look to the future. Aristide is not part of that future.

Some journalist should have asked fuzzy-brain Mark Toner if he considered Baby Doc to be part of Haiti's future, seeing as he came back to Haiti.

But Baby Doc's return would be a good lever for Aristide to use should he want to return at this time.

It only takes a moment to recall that the notorious monster torturer who worked in Brazil, then Uruguay, was originally hired by Eisenhower's State Department before building his career torturing both leftists, and simple people taken from the streets to be used for teaching the cops, etc. how to torture their captives, only to finally be murdered by his victims. Can't say he didn't have it coming to him.

Toner seems to be a new one for quotes. Sounds as if he has acquired the fetid attitude known all over the world already.

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Does VOA in the url mean "Voice of America"? That would possibly explain why there is NO TRUTH IN IT AT ALL.

LIE #1:

"The United States Thursday expresses opposition to the possible return to Haiti of deposed former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. U.S. officials say in the wake of this week’s arrival in Haiti of former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, the return of another controversial figure is the 'last thing' Haiti needs."

"Baby Doc" cannot have returned without a U.S. okay (if not recruitment). The U.S. ousted him in the first place, controls Haiti's airport and has control of $1 billion in aid money yet to be dispensed. Haiti might as well be a territory of the U.S. "Client state" doesn't cover all the ways that U.S. controls Haiti. The CIA surely knew where he was, what he ate for breakfast, what color socks he wears, where he was spending Haiti's money and so forth. Ergo, the U.S. wanted him to return precisely for the purpose of trying to prevent Aristide from returning, either as a warning to Preval & co. and to the people of Haiti, that if they bring back Aristide--who would surely win a presidential election--their punishment might well be bloody tyranny, or to create conditions for a civil war, to make Aristide hesitate or to inflict his return with bloodshed and mayhem. This is why "Baby Doc" is there, to make it clear that "the last thing that Haiti needs"--another Duvalier bloodbath--is the "first thing" on the U.S. list of punishments, should Haitians insist on democratic leadership and the return of their ousted president and best leader.


LIE #2:

"U.S. officials are making clear their concern that the arrival of Jean-Claude Duvalier, and the contemplated return of Mr. Aristide, threaten to upset Haiti’s efforts at earthquake recovery and to sort out its troubled election process."

The U.S. is responsible for both failures--the failure of the aid program and the botched, putrid election and recount. The U.S. has been in charge of the billions of dollars of aid money--and a million people are still living under tarps--not even tents--tarps! Cholera has broken out. There has been zilch reconstruction. This is an unconscionable failure! And when their hand-picked tool, Preval, fixed the election for his successor, the U.S. put together the oddest election monitoring group I've ever heard of--six people from the U.S., France and Canada and one Jamaican--operating under the OAS name, whose recount was so inadequate as to constitute a second fraud. The U.S. is notorious for its interference in Haiti. France is Haiti's former slavemaster. And Canada has a rightwing government that has been as malevolent as the U.S. in Latin America. 75% of Haiti's voters boycotted this so-called election. Aristide's party--the majority party in Haiti-- was banned from the ballot. The U.S. has refused to allow a re-do of the election. They are going to force Haitians to vote for two candidates chosen by "first world" countries--in the fraudulent recount of the fraudulent election--one a "neo-liberal" ("capitalism with a happy face") and a bizarre character who is probably a criminal with ties to "Baby Doc." It is UNBELIEVABLE that the U.S. would try to foist blame for all onto Aristide.


LIE #3:

"Mr. Aristide, Haiti’s first democratically-elected president, has been living in exile in South Africa since fleeing the country in 2004 amid a popular uprising."

The Bush Junta's thugs kidnapped him, threatened his life and put him on plane to the Congo! It is beyond unbelievable--it is mind-boggling-- that anybody could assert that he "fled." As for "popular uprising," a) Aristide is the most popular and beloved man in Haiti, and b) yeah, about 5,000 were murdered--all Aristide supporters--but to call this a "popular uprising" is kind of like calling the invasion of Iraq a "liberation."


LIE #4:

"In the wake of the surprise return last Sunday of Mr. Duvalier, Mr. Aristide has declared that he also wants to return home to help his country, and said he hopes his South African hosts will make that possible."

See LIE #1. It was no surprise to the U.S. They planned it!


LIE #5.

"U.S. officials are declining comment about whether they are pressing South Africa to prevent Mr. Aristide’s return.

Uh-huh.

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Every line of the article is a LIE!