U.S. intervention into Haiti during Aristide's second term

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• Haiti in general during Aristide's second term
• The history of World War III in Haiti

New accord brings disaccord in Lavelas ranks

This Week in Haiti, Haiti Progres, 27 December 2000–2 January 2001. On December 19, the Haitian Parliament agreed to allow the U.S. military to unilaterally penetrate Haiti, supposedly to combat drug trafficking, but some Lavalas parliamentarians bucked party line and voted against ratification, saying the accord infringed on Haitian sovereignty.

OAS mediators: Where do they want to lead Haiti?

This Week in Haiti, Haiti Progres, 8–14 August 2001. What we are seeing in Haiti today is a replay of what happened in Nicaragua in 1990. Washington gradually dismantled the Sandinista revolution through a combination of demanding endless concessions, creating and funding an opposition front, and applying military pressure to push the Sandinistas into flawed elections.

US Undermines Another Democracy

By George Friemoth, Marin Interfaith Task Force on Central America (MITF) newsletter, Spring 2002. Now that Haiti has a democratically elected populist government leading a country of poor people presumably willing to challenge US economic and foreign interests, the US is determined to see that Haiti's popular democracy does not succeed.

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Haiti Report for 24 June 2002, prepared by Haiti Reborn/Quixote Center. While the Group of Eight discussed an Action Plan for Africa, Haiti is getting poorer while subject to a US-orchestrated block on grants and loans to the country's government until an impasse is resolved.

Haiti tense as U.S. blocks aid

By G. Dunkel, Workers World, 12 September 2002. While life in Haiti grows grimmer for most people, pressure from the U.S. is growing more intense. The U.S. government, quite illegally, is blocking $500 million in loans and international aid because it doesn't like the way Haiti counted the votes in a parliamentary election two years ago.

Haitians Feel Abandoned by America

Associated Press, 20 September 2003. When U.S. troops landed in Haiti nine years ago Friday, Kesnel Wilson believed they would help his hapless country recover from years of military-backed rule. Today, he feels abandoned as he watches U.S. assistance dwindle and his poverty-stricken country sink deeper into despair.

World Bank arm OKs first loan to Haiti since 1998

By Anna Willard, Reuters, 10 October 2003. The World Bank's private sector financing arm has approved its first loan for Haiti since 1998, for a company making Levi jeans in a controversial free trade zone. NGOs tried to stop the $20 million International Finance Corporation loan because they fear the workers at the factory will not have proper labor rights.