Haiti pro Aristide marchers threaten PM.  Machete-wielding supporters of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide are turning their wrath on Haiti's demoralized police force, beheading some of their victims in a campaign imitative of the insurgency in Iraq.  (Oct 4)

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Haiti protesters seek Aristide's return.  Hundreds of supporters of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide marched through the slums of Haiti's capital Wednesday to demand his return.

Even as the crowd rallied against Haiti's new U.S.-backed interim government, a group of Caribbean nations announced that it would make a decision in about two weeks on whether to recognize the new leadership.   (July 29)

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Democracy Now:  Did the Bush Administration Allow a Network of Right-Wing Republicans to Foment a Violent Coup in Haiti?   (July 20)

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Aristide Prime Minister Yvon Neptune Arrested in Haiti.  The new U.S.-backed government charges Neptune is connected with several killings that occurred around the time of the coup that ousted Aristide. Neptune recently took to the Haitian airwaves and called on Aristide supporters to prepare for a future struggle.   (June 28)

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Aristide arrives to live in exile in South Africa - vows to return to Haiti.   (May 31)

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Floods ravage Haiti - up to 1,000 feared dead in the town of Mapou.   (May 27)

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Rep. Maxine Waters calls on Congress not to recognize new Haitian government.   (May 5)

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Deepening poverty breeds anger and desperation in Haiti.   (May 5)

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Kofi Annan has proposed sending United Nations military and police forces to Haiti beginning in May as the vanguard of an 8,300-strong United Nations stabilization mission that will take over from the United States-led multilateral interim force (MIF) on 1 June.   (April 20)

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Hundreds of corpses fill Haiti morgues.  Democracy Now speaks with an attorney with the National Lawyers Guild which recently sent a delegation to Haiti. He says he saw hundreds of corpses being dumped by morgues in Haiti and describes bodies coming in with plastic bags over their heads and hands tied behind their backs, piles of corpses burning in fields and pigs eating their flesh.   (April 12)

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Witnesses: U.S. Special Forces trained and armed Haitian anti-Aristide paramilitaries in D.R..  According to Democracy Now, lawyers, journalists, and Dominican soldiers all claim 200 U.S. Special Forces were in the country to train the so-called Haitian rebel forces before going into Haiti to depose Aristide.   (April 7)

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Colin Powell visits Haiti; says an investigation into Aristide's removal is not necessary.  Article also states that the 2,000 (approx.) U.S. troops in Haiti are expected to leave in June.
(April 5)

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U.S. looking at Aristide's possible role in drug trade.
(April 3)

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Haiti rebel leader threatens to kill Aristide.  (March 30)

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Report: Condi Rice tells Jamaican government to expel Aristide or face the consequences.  Also, U.S. and French troops are standing by as rebels execute Aristide backers - at least 50 killings per day in Cap Haitian alone, according to Randall Robinson.  (March 25)

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Aristide has not decided whether he will accept permanent asylum in South Africa, his spokesman has said.  (March 25)

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New Haitian Prime Minister flies in to praise rebels. 
Haiti's new Prime Minister yesterday flew into the chaotic city where an armed revolt began six weeks ago, hailing as "freedom fighters" the ragtag gang that helped oust President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.  (March 22)

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In a reversal, the U.S. is not disarming rebels.
"This is a country with a lot of weapons and disarmament is not our mission. Our mission is to stabilize the country,"  said U.S. Marine Corp. Brig. Gen. Ronald Coleman, head of the 3,000-strong U.N.-sanctioned force, told Reuters. 
(March 21)

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Haiti installs U.S.-backed government.  (March 18)

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Venezuela offers asylum to Aristide.  (March 17)

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Haiti suspends relations with Jamaica following Aristide's arrival.  (March 16). 

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"We believe president Aristide forfeited his ability to lead his people," Condoleezza Rice told NBC television.  Rice also called Aristide's upcoming trip to Jamaica a "bad idea."
(March 14)

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Senator Christopher Dodd (CT) :
"Clearly the United States decided that it was going to walk away from a democratically elected government. ... we are violating the very charters which we've signed on to. The American democratic charter signed by the United States and 23 other nations only a few years ago said when a democratic nation in the hemisphere seeks support of OAS members, they will come to that support."
 
"If you are going to use the standard that [Bush has used in justifying the overthrow of Aristide] .... President Toledo in Peru has about 7 percent support of the Peruvian people. I guess you might call that a failed leader democratically elected. What is the standard going to be now if we don't have governments that are overly tremendously popular, that we may not stand by them? ... I don't think it's a minor point; ... It's a very critical issue about how this administration is going to conduct its foreign policy."   (March 10)

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COMMENTARY: Are those dirty U.S. fingerprints on Aristide's ouster? Jeffery D. Sachs, Christian Science Monitor.
(March 8)

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COMMENTARY: Haiti and our record of shame; look no further than Roger Noriega to understand the overthrow of Aristide.  Dan Carpenter, Indianapolis Star. (March 3)

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