This curt summary or commentary from Mr Morse wants to make the point that
Aristide alone was responsible for the failure of the negotiations before
the
coup that brought down his government, but says nothing about the influence
and the machinations of the IRI, the International Institute, a so called
institute to promote democraty but really a think tank of the Republican
Right
the many activities of Mr Lucas their employee, the total disconnect between
the interventions of the then ambassador Dean Curran who thought he was
there
to support a policy of cooperation with a democratically elected government
and the subversives activities of the Institute who had an opposite agenda,
their financing of the opposition to the Constitutional government, without
knowledge of the ambassy, the many activities of the plotters in the
Dominican
Republic including ( those soldiers of fortune whom Mr Latortue called
freedom fighters),all of which couldn't have taken place without the
knowledge and
consent of high authorities in the DR, and the the coincidence of the
presence of Mr Lucas at the sites where some of the meetings of the coup
plotters
were taking place, the attitudes of individuals like Otto Reich and Robert
Noriega of the US State Department, known to be allies of the Haitian Right
some
of their reported activities and comments and their role in blocking
financial aid to the Aristide government while the opposition activities
were being
financed through agencies like the USAID ( Mr Reich a Cuban american with
known tied to the Cuban American Foundation was no friend of Aristide who
was had
the temerity to establish diplomatic relations with Cuba and was welcoming
Cuban doctors who were ministering to the poor in the countryside
etc..etc...
I believe it is rather disingenious to claim now that Mr Aristide would
never have negaciated in good faith when the opposition and the US
government had
all the means at their disposal to bring him to his knees and make him
comply and when word was being passed to the opposition to stand firm and
not
negotiate and when the US goverment itself cancelled the meeting where those
final negatiations were to take place. Aristide had all his faults not the
least
of which was that he was totally incompetent and unprepared to face the
comples and daunting task of running a wrecked country like Haiti, but let's
try a
little objectivity. Everyone interested should read the article which
appeared in the New York times of 29th January to form their own opinion.
May be
then we can start a debate about it. I found it rather illuminating.
To those interested I can forward a copy by email.
Math Jay