U.S. Goal for Haiti Comes Into Focus: Duvalierism without Duvalier

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By G. Dunkel
Apr 1, 2004, 14:46


April 1, 2004 - The U.S. government has set its goal for Haiti: restore the paramilitary Macoutes and the Haitian Army to power. But the popular movement has its own agenda, and is building resistance to the U.S./ French occupation.



With the assistance and aid of Washington, the army and paramilitaries controlled Haiti through terror and intimidation from 1957 until 1990. They kept Haiti stable for the bourgeoisie there and for U.S. imperialism while reducing the Haitian people to the deepest poverty in the Western Hemisphere.


The Macoutes were the personal police force of François Duvalier, who came to power in 1957. Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who disbanded them, was elected in 1990 in a mass movement that overwhelmed the millions of dollars the United States spent on his opponent, Marc Bazin. A few months after Aristide took office, the army made a coup and ran the country from 1991 to 1994, using an organization called the FRAPH to do its dirty work.



Of course, the Bush administration has not announced its goal openly. It still talks about "restoring democracy in Haiti," denying that it kidnapped the popularly elected Aristide when it sent him to the Central African Republic.
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