22864: Kathleen: Fw: Fw: 22849: LScottPHt: Re: 22826: Fenton: Chomsky on Haiti and US policy, mainstream coverage... (... (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Kathleen <kathleenmb@adelphia.net>


> >Subject: Re: 22849: LScottPHt: Re: 22826: Fenton: Chomsky on Haiti and US
policy, mainstream coverage... (... (fwd)

     Haiti did not "sell" to American editors from 99-03; as a consequence,
many atrocities committed by Lavalas did not make the American newspapers.
The current position of  Haitian lobbyists and Maxine Waters et al are a
direct consequence of this long disinterest and total lack of coverage.

     So, as a matter of fact, was the "surprise" over the disaffection with
the "first democratically elected
(sic) president (FDuvalier was too) and all the blather about his
returning., and the crimes vs pro-Aristides.

 I was in Papay when Chavannes Jean-Baptiste's
 youngest brother was shot by Lavalas politicians and thugs in Nov. 00, and
I was in Port au Prince when the alleged December 17, 2001 coup took place.

Living in Haiti from 5/2000 to June/2002 I saw Zero  coverage by American
journalists on significant happenings:  on the mansions being built, the
people being beaten, wounded and killed, the bank (BHD) shut down by
Aristide's CIMO Jan 02 because MPP and other Lavalas oppositon people had
accounts there, the garbage piling up from then on, not just since Aristide
left (by his request, and his bags were packed, children sent on ahead).
So, the editors left a big gap, now being filled by stories that imply all
was glorious under Aristide, and bringing him back will fix everything, that
only foreign powers were causing the corruption.  Hey, don't dis the
Haitians.  They have proved over centuries they are just as capable of
virtue and corruption as any American, European, or African.    Kathleen
Burke