Washington Meddling in Haiti Neglected by US Press
A demonstrator shouts slogans during a protest march against the ruling government in Port-au-Prince on June 13, 2019.
CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP / GETTY IMAGES
BY
Jane Regan, FAIR
PUBLISHED
June 29, 2019
Tens of thousands marching in the streets nationwide to denounce government corruption, reports of police and gang violence and murder and a downwardly spiraling economy. Calls for the government to step down.
If this were Venezuela, as recent FAIR analyses pointed out, elite media journalists and commentators would be all over the story. After all, theyve been endorsing Washingtons blatant and repeated imperialist designs and interventions in that country for over a decade.
But this is not Venezuela. Its Haiti.
Not that Washington has always opposed regime change in the worlds first black republic. A decade ago, presidents Bush
père et fils approved and backed coup détats twice, in 1991 and 2004, against Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a left-wing populist chosen in the countrys first free elections. As with Iran and Venezuela, those were what
The Intercepts Jeremy Scahill (2/20/19) called Regime Change We Can Believe In.
But unlike Aristide, and unlike Venezuelas President Nicolás Maduro, President Jovenel Moïse is Washingtons man in Port-au-Prince. He was hand-picked by Michael Sweet Mickey Martelly, the previous Washington-approved president, and had pledged to follow his Haiti Is Open for Business neoliberal policies.
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