Aristide kidnapped by the United States

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Ethereal

Ethereal

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No bias sources, this should be all over your favorite news site. Straight from Aristide himself, the United States forced him out of Haiti after telling him he would be otherwise killed (by his oposition). I caught this on the news tonight when they had Aristide reporting to the media of the situation.

A PEICE FROM CNN:

Aristide also said "that he was kidnapped, that he resigned under pressure, that he had not negotiated with these countries or with the United States," Rangel told CNN. "As a matter of fact, he was very apprehensive for his life."

"The way I see it is they came to his house, uninvited," Waters said. "They had not only the force of the embassy but the Marines with them. They made it clear that he had to go now or he would be killed."

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/03/01/aristide.claim/index.html

What a complete mess. Best hopes and wishes go out to Haiti.



Does anyone know anything about Jean-Bertrand Aristide?
 
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Mcleanhatch

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i dont know for a fact but i heard that he was the democratically elected president of Haiti and that he was overwelmingly voted into power but when his term expired he refused to give up power and is now an evil dictator. but then again i havent paid much attention to this so i dont know how accurate i was in what i just said.
 
Ethereal

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From what I heard, one of the motives of the rebel forces was that Aristide was never genuinely elected into office, and that it was fixed to begin with. I have yet to hear anything on a dictatorship, or an evil one at that.
 
krishna

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no I wouldnt call it a dictatorship.
and Aristide used to be a catholic priest, so i dont know about evil.
a lot of people liked him, but most people didnt. like lots of caribbean governments there was a lot of corruption. the US has been pretty inconsistent regarding aristide, theyve supported him at times and gone against him at other times.
the election probably was fixed. even if it wasnt, haitians are still pissed because he hasnt done anything to improve their nation since he's been in power and he's ignored a lot of his promises
 
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He was "elected" in a proven flawed and fixed election. He disbanded the army after they forced him out the first time in 93. He used the police and armed gangs to maintain control of the country but many of the gangs, including the rebels that just forced him out, turned on him when he had one of their leaders assassinated.
 
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