IN CAPITAL: Marines from Camp Lejeune, N.C., patrol Port-au-Prince. There were no shootings Monday night. TECH SGT. ANDY DUNAWAY/U.S. AIR FORCE
Posted on Wed, Mar. 17, 2004
PRESIDENT IN EXILE
BY JACQUELINE CHARLES AND MICHAEL A.W. OTTEY
WELCOME
Chávez told a nationwide address Tuesday that ''the doors of Venezuela are open'' to the former president, who resigned and fled Haiti on Feb. 29, spent two weeks in the Central African Republic and arrived Monday in Jamaica.
Chávez echoed Aristide's allegation, denied by Washington, that he was ousted in a virtual coup backed by the United States and tricked into going into exile, and he criticized the lack of action by the Organization of American States.
''What silence with respect to the kidnapping of a person, besides a popularly elected president,'' Chávez said, blaming ``the troops of the country that shouts about democracy in the world.''
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