Monday, March 01, 2004

Counterpunch on Haiti Posted here Monday, March 01, 2004 at 3:34:01 PM     A very good story.. Haiti as Target Practice How the US Press Missed the Story By HEATHER WILLIAMS "The fact that the group in charge of Haiti policy today in the State Department has been literally gunning for Aristide since before his initial election as a champion of democracy in 1990 has been left all but unmentioned by the US press." Now that bodies are littering the streets of Cap Haitien and Port Au Prince, major print news outlets have seen well enough to send a handful of cameramen and correpondents to send back news of the crisis. Even so, the campaign of violence that has finally ousted Haitian President Aristide has been investigated and reported to the American public with appalling indolence. The official reasoning appears to be that if Haiti is the hemisphere's eternal basket case-a dismal repository of poverty where there is no future-- how on earth could its past possibly matter? And we are now waiting to see what happened to Aristede. ********