Did the Bush administration force and aid a coup in Haiti?

March 1, 2004 Off By leigh

As the corporate media celebrates the stabilisation of Haiti, once again the U.S. stands accused of callous disregard for human life as it so often has been guilty of in conflicts such as Rwanda, Bosnia and the first Haitian coup.

However the U.S. administration’s complicity is not limited this time to tacit support of the guerrillas – the henchmen of wanted criminals Louis Jodel Chamblain and Guy Phillippe – by refusing to support the democratically elected Aristede government. It stands accused of actively aiding the coup.


As the corporate media celebrates the stabilisation of Haiti, once again the U.S. stands accused of callous disregard for human life as it so often has been guilty of in conflicts such as Rwanda, Bosnia and the first Haitian coup.

However the U.S. administration’s complicity is not limited this time to tacit support of the guerrillas – the henchmen of wanted criminals Louis Jodel Chamblain and Guy Phillippe – by refusing to support the democratically elected Aristede government. It stands accused of actively aiding the coup.

Chamblain and Phillip appeared in Gonaives at the head of a convoy of military vehicles, equipped with M16’s, M60 machine guns and uniforms. Obviously they arrived from the Dominican Republic, where they had been harrassing government forces and civilians. While that country stands accused of allowing such an illegal act to occur, where were the 900 U.S. troops specifically stationed on the border between the two countries? How did they let such a convoy pass? If they can not stop a military patrol, what is their purpose? Why were L.J Chamblain and G. Phillippe allowed to cross into Haiti since they were known murderers?

But if that question will not be asked in the corporate media, why not also ask the following:

1) Why was the U.S training Guy Phillippe in Ecuador and by who? Only the U.S. military, or the CIA also?

2) Why is Emmanuel Constant, a declared (by the FBI) human rights abuser allowed to freely inhabit Queens, N.Y?

U.S. Congresswoman Maxine Waters stated on today’s Democracy Now! broadcast that Haitian President Aristede had called her this Monday morning saying he was kidnapped by a U.S. military personal protection unit and flown to the Central African Republic where he is being held in a facility known as the Palace of the Renaissance. In particular he stated he did not leave willingly as stated by the U.S. State Department, but that he was removed against his will.

This is a coup backed and assisted by the U.S. government to depose a democratically elected head of state.