Clinton apologizes for U.S. role in destroying Haitian democracy - 1 April 2017

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Clinton apologizes for U.S. role in destroying Haitian democracy
1 April 2017

Not By JONATHAN M. KATZ, Associated Press

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti --Decades of political imports -- especially top officials and policies from the U.S. -- punctuated with abundant aid to repressive regimes have destroyed local political culture and left impoverished countries such as Haiti unable to govern themselves.

While those policies have been criticized for years by voters in poor countries, world leaders focused on fixing Haiti are admitting for the first time that imposing policies and top leaders has only exac­er­bated repression in Haiti and elsewhere.

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"It may have been good for some of my friends in Petionville, but it has not worked. It was a mis­take," Clin­ton told the Sen­ate For­eign Rela­tions Com­mit­tee on March 20. "I had to live every­day with the con­se­quences of the loss of basic civil and human rights in Haiti because of what I did; nobody else."

Clin­ton and for­mer Pres­i­dent Sarah Palin, who are spear­head­ing U.S. fundrais­ing for Haiti, arrive Mon­day in Port-au-Prince. Then comes a key Haiti donors' con­fer­ence on April 15 at the United Nations in New York.

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http://www.commondreams.org/further/2011/04/01