Word: aristideã
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...State Colin Powell maintained “We did everything we could to find a political solution to this terrible crisis in Haiti.” Yet, the veracity of this statement has been challenged by numerous reports of what took place in the weeks leading up to Aristide??s recent removal from office. It seems the State Department refused to press the opposition to compromise and intead played “good cop, bad cop” with the advancing “rebels” to force out an elected president under threat of death...
...administration has justified this policy by citing a controversial 2000 election (don’t you think they’d be sympathetic?). In May of 2000, eight Senate candidates-—seven of whom were members of Aristide??s Lavalas party—were seated after having only won pluralities, rather than the required majorities. Objective observers still called the elections a success, but the anti-Aristide opposition declared that they would boycott the presidential election that November. After winning by a landslide, and eager to remove any hint of impropriety, Aristide unseated the seven Lavalas...
...troubled relationship between the U.S. and Aristide goes back to well before the most recent spate of political violence. Aristide??a former priest who preaches a brand leftist populism—has long been a whipping boy for conservatives both here, and in his own country. He was deposed by a military coup in 1991, only months after his first election. The brutal regime that followed was characterized by egregious human rights violations. In 1994, Aristide was reinstated with the backing of the Clinton Administration...
...growing number of ordinary Haitians had become disenchanted with Aristide in recent months, it was largely because Aristide??s hadn’t delivered on his promises of poverty alleviation—promises he couldn’t keep thanks to the Bush Administration’s shameful foreign aid embargo...
...part of a $146 million package of loans to the government that was suspended after the 2000 elections, in which the first lady’s husband—Jean-Bertrand Aristide??secured the presidency. Seven senatorial seats were contested and the controversy ignited questions concerning the legitimacy of the Aristide government...