From: Nicolas Rossier <n.rossier@worldnet.att.net> Math,Yes a government without legitimacy will always end up being more violent. When you are in the business of removing elected governments you don't agree with you better make sure that you feed the people right away and give them jobs or at least make sure that the situation does not get worse. Like in Irak, they have failed in Haiti. The Noriega/UN/Torture triumvirat has been inconsistent since the beginning and have even betrayed the hopes of the Francofous and some of the French and American enlightened intellectuals who had for a time believed in the Bush doctrine of regime change. The problem here is that if you want to change a government that you believe failed to deliver then you have to replace it right away with new people who will deliver. The new people put in place have simply not delivered. Economic indicators are not up and violence has sharply increased. The poor majority uses Aristide as a reference not only because they elected him but also for a very simple practical reason. Haiti was in a better shape before February 2004 than it is today. Yes! a miracle that he was able to do so much without economic aid. Sixty percent of his national budget was depending on aid and don't tell me about all the non governmental aid that was flushed into Haiti. Everybody knows where that went. Eighty percent went back into paying bills at the Hotel Montana, SUVs and salaries spent mostly in Paris Montreal and Washington. The rest went to fund the opposition that now can not even present credible candidates. The only thing they do now is try to have the ones that have a real base (Father Jean Juste) or with recognized skills (Simeus) prevented from running. Violence will only be reduced once reconciliation is reached between Famni Lavalas and the current defacto regime. People (even harsh opponents of Aristide)know it deep inside but won't tell it at loud for now. Wounds are too deep and very ancient. They need to heal now. This is the UN's first mission. This is what the UN should have done in February instead of backing the solution of the minority. Early polls show that Preval could certainly prevail next February. But who is he running for and under what platform. Why has he been so silent about the human rights situation and the removal of Aristide? All that remains a mystery but maybe after all he is the only one capable of bringing humanity and democracy back to Haiti and allow the thousand of exiled Haitians back in their homeland.
Nick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Corbett" <corbetre@webster.edu> To: "Bob Corbett's Haiti list" <haiti@lists.webster.edu> Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 7:37 AM Subject: 26809: Jepiem (reply) Fwd: Re: 26785:.More kidnappings (querry and commentary) (fwd)
From: Jepiem@aol.com What is going on in Haiti? For a while, there was a lull in the wave of kidnappings or so it seemed, and people were quick to attribute this to the hiring of a new police chief. Now more than ever we hear again of more of the same. Furthermore, from the reports of on site observers, living conditions have taken a dive for the worse since the change of government brought about with great fanfare by the "International Community". The mounds of carbage at the crossroads and on the sidewalks are getting taller and staying put almost undisturbed except by the errant dogs, people have to look harder for their daily bread, the dollar exchange rate is higher even though the incoming fabricated selected government found a way to lower the rate immediately after its installation. People who can afford it are leaving with more determination to not return. We are told that the current government was installed only as a caretaker to organize elections, yet there is a CEP that is supposed to do that. There are scores of foreign armed troops running up and down the streets in their armored trucks, oblivious to acts of banditism being committed against the population. They say perhaps rightfully that their mission is not to police. Yet this is the most urgent need of Haiti at the moment. So what was the purpose of that regime change? What is the purpose of the visits of those important US people to the National Palace? What is going on? Are we being prepared for some theatrical last act where some "disturbance" will take place in some part of the country and a new"temporary" government will be installed "because the haitians can't bring themselves to elect themselves a government"? In this haitian chaos, anyone's guess is as good as mine. May be the powers that be in this "International Community" would dare to share we us common mortals what it is they are cooking up for the gods of Haiti. Math Jay