A Helping Hand to Haiti
On February 29, 2004 US Special Forces kidnap Aristede
He is placed in an unnumbered white plane with a large
American Flag and transported to the Central African Republic
Maxine Waters –alerted by cell phone flies with Amy Goodman and Randall Robinson and extracts him
Haiti has been hated since 1804 a consequence of Toussant L’ Overture’s successful
Slave rebellion against Napoleon and France
Aristede’s accomplishments: being twice overwhelmingly elected and then overthrown by the US government.
One mortal sin: abolishing the military
Another: the Foundation Aristede Medical school.
Since the coup we find the school is barracks for US Troops, and the Doctors
Train in Cuba.
What message does this send to the world?
And Obama, bargaining unsuccessfully to prevent Aristede’s return
Represents stupidity in the face of history
Howard P. Charman, M.D. 3-21-2011
See Professor Martin Snowden (Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present). Democracy Now 5-18-2020. Toussant L’Overture took advantage of the European susceptibility to yellow fever to defeat Napolean…The only successful slave revolt in history. France and the world extracted reparation until after WWII. HC 6-11-2020