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#5336: #5290: Haiti may rue Aristide win (fwd), Grey comments (fwd)
From: Racine125@aol.com
Canute James wrote:
<<Mr Aristide, arguably Haiti's most popular politician, is likely to be a
comfortable winner of next month's presidential election... his rivals will
be weak, unknown candidates with little popular support... The vote is being
boycotted by the main opposition parties..."
Now, without taking things out of context, let's look at this. No one
suggests that Aristide will not win in free and fair elections. The "main
opposition parties" aren't very "main", since they can't muster a significant
challenge. So if the "main opposition" isn't much of an opposition and the
other candidates on the ballot are "weak, unknown... with little popular
support", then I guess it is reasonable, right and normal for Aristide to
win, huh?
"But the US has been one of the countries frustrated at the failure of Mr
Aristide and Rene Preval, the outgoing president, to implement economic and
institutional reforms... including the privatisation of several state
enterprises...the electricity, water and telecommunications companies,
airports and seaports."
WOW! Imagine what the American people would say if they were asked to sell
ABC-TV, General Motors, and Mount Rushmore to Saudi investors! And the first
two aren't even state enterprises, although all three are subsidized.
"The known problems of the economy and political volatility have been
compounded by a more recent difficulty for the country. It has become a
favoured entrepot for cocaine being smuggled from South America to North
America."
So what does the American government think, that airplanes from Haiti fly
over the USA dropping parachute loads of coke, and little kids just come
gather it up in baskets and take it home to Mom? If Haiti is a big
transhipper, it's because the USA is a big CONSUMER! For every nasty
Colombian or Haitian coke runner, there is some nasty American on the other
end waiting to receive the shipment.
I wonder if the US government knows what they look like, hissing and pissing
and getting the OAS to send envoys like Einaudi because, as was reported in
another article, "The OAS and Haiti's biggest direct donors, the European
Union and the United States, have urged the government to resolve disputed
results of legislative elections this year before going ahead with the
presidential vote."
What the heck difference do they think it is going to make? Aristide is
still going to be President, Haiti is NOT going to sell her airports and
seaports, and the USA and the greedy "investors" are going to have to live
with the facts. Cutting off aid programs won't work, they more they starve
Haitians by withholding aid, the more Haitians are going to hold on to
Aristide!
Peace and love,
Bon Mambo Racine Sans Bout Sa Te La Daginen
"Se bon ki ra",
Good is rare - Haitian Proverb
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(Posting from Jacmel, Haiti)