Making Haiti Safe for Democracy

In the shitstorm of disinformation over our incursions in Iraq, the latest American invasion of Haiti, which began in February, 2004, has largely gone unreported by the spineless, mainstream press. In addition to direct brutality at the hands of U. S. troops, the people of this long-suffering Afro-Caribbean nation have once again had the thugs employed by drug lords and sweat shop operators unleashed upon them. Victem have included septegenarian artists, 13 year-old students (whose only crime was being photographed handing flowers to deposed President Aristide), and journalists seeking to report on the collusion of the U.S. government with the Haitian right-wing elite in staging this latest coup d'etat. Meanwhile, the daily press tells us that Aristide voluntarily left the country.