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171 Haiti:The Violent Cycle Continues March 5, 2004 To repeat the past is to disrespect the past. The past is a maze of violence, ignorance, superstition mixed in with some really good stuff. The only way to respect the past is to refuse to repeat it. Our children are going to repeat the past because they do not study it. How many students in high school or college would have any understanding of over one hundred military interventions by our country in as many years? The President of Haiti is in Central Africa with his wife. He is a prisoner neither free to speak nor to travel. He has been demonized by professional liars in our government and a sycophant press. Any student of history would know that what happened this week in Haiti is actually routine. Often, the first step is to decide that our selected victim is insane. Assistant Secretary of State for Latin America, Roger Noriega, developed this standard lie and applied it to Aristide in Haiti. In 1953, John Foster Dulles said, “So this is how we get rid of that madman Mossadegh,” after the elected Prime Minister of Iran nationalized the oil. This was the same formula used for the removal of the democratically elected President Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala in 1954. Arbenz was flown out of Guatemala just as unwillingly as Jean Bertrand Aristide was flown out of Haiti. As Arbenz was deposed, Castillo Armas, a public relations man for the United Fruit Company was flown in together with the Ambassador of the United States. We replaced a democratic government in Guatemala established a dictatorship, and developed one of the most brutal armies in the world under U.S. direction. The first democratically elected President in the Dominican Republic since 1924 was Juan Bosch. He was eliminated in 1965. Lyndon Johnson sent in 20,000 troops to make sure that duly elected Bosch not maintain power. 172 This was the case when the great Salvador Allende, a medical doctor and excellent statesman was murdered in Chile on Sept. 11, 1973. It was of no concern to Henry Kissinger that we turned Chile over a Nazi Dictator. The same methodologies mentioned above were used to conduct a coup in Venezuela in 2002. In that case, with the support of the Venezuelan Army, the coup was reversed. Anyone in touch with authentic history will have no doubt that Jean Bertrand Aristide is just one more victim of our country’s dictatorial foreign policy. Jean Bertrand Aristide is the legitimate president of Haiti. To be ignorant of history is to be condemned to repeat it. ...

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