Haiti's political subjugation under President Préval

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What is privatization?
From 50 Years is Enough campaign and Voices for Haiti, 5 February 1996. One of the main components of the International Monetary Fund/World Bank Structural Adjustment Program for Haiti is privatization of state-owned industries (including two banks, a flour mill and cement factory), utilities (the electric and telephone companies) and infrastructure (seaports and airports).
U.N. commission points finger at CIA
Haiti Info, 10 February 1996. A U.N. Human Rights Commission report openly accuses and harshly criticizes the actions of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Haiti.
Most U.S. Troops Are Gone, But Haiti Still Depends on Washington
By Larry Rohter, 17 September 1996. While the U.S. landing to return Aristide have gone, the United States continues to be deeply involved in the day-to-day management of Haiti and relies on the unilateral application of force to achieve its objectives.
Endless Bummer: U.S. Occupation Angling for Four More Years?
By Michael Ratner, Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights, in Haiti Progres This Week in Haiti, 21–27 October 1998 and 28 October–3 November 1998. It's been four years since 20,000 US troops landed in Haiti, but what the US said would be a quick intervention with clear objectives, a limited US/UN role and a sure exit strategy, has become a seemingly permanent presence.
Democracy Hypocrisy
Haiti Progres, This Week in Haiti, 3–9 February 1999. A delegation of U.S. congressmen solemnly nodding to a circle of Haitian politicians, mostly collaborators of the 1991-1994 coup d'etat, railing against the supposed coup d'etat of President Rene Preval on January 11, when he refused to recognize some parliamentarians’ illegal self-extension of terms.
Can Haiti be Recolonized?
Haiti Progres, August 4–10, 1999. UN Security Council mandate for foreign occupiers of Haiti runs out on Nov. 30, so U.S. wants to concoct a new formula to keep its troops and economic overseers on the ground indefinitely, perverting the U.N. Charter.
The racist underbelly of the U.S. occupation of Haiti
By Stan Goff, Haiti Progres, This Week in Haiti, 13-19 October 1999. Someone privy to Army intelligence summaries says that before and after the 1994 invasion, they were full of venom against Haitians and their democratically elected government; they regurgitated CIA fabrications and propaganda and were shot through with racist and xenophobic stereotypes about Haitians.
US must return documents intact to Haiti
Public Statement by Amnesty International, 4 November 1999. 160,000 pages of documents confiscated by the US from Haitian paramilitary and military headquarters in 1994, and subsequently censored to protect US citzens from charges of human rights violations.
Return our documents, Haitians demand
Haiti Progress, This Week in Haiti, 10–16 November 1999. Rally demanding the return of a vast trove of evidence against human rights violators which the U.S. government spirited out of Haiti in 1994 and has refused to return intact ever since.
A Dominican invasion of Haiti?
Haiti Progress, This Week in Haiti, 10–16 November 1999. Washington is goading the Dominican Republic to invade as the pretext for a new full-scale U.S/U.N. occupation to derail the likely re-election of former president Aristide in November 2000.
A UN-ilatural extension
Haiti Progres, This Week in Haiti, 1–7 December 1999. Less than 12 hours before the expiration of the U.N. troop mandate on Nov. 30, the U.N. Security Council has voted to extend the U.N. Civilian Police Mission in Haiti (MIPONUH) for another three and a half months. The Security Council acted unilaterally despite the wishes of the Haitian government.
The best of times, the worst of times: Two views of Haiti and the world
Haiti Progres, This Week in Haiti, 29 December 1999–4 January 2000. The surreal sensation of listening to the traditional year-end address of President René Préval at the National Palace on December 22. Despite a disastrous year, Preval points rosy picture of future due to economic reforms.