Anybody see any parallels here between the Haitian coup and Chile?

[Cleita]

The only difference I can see here is that they didn't kill Aristide like they did Allende. Could Kissinger be quietly working behind the scenes on this and why isn't our liberal media asking this question?

[aquart]

1. The parallel I see is with Venezuela. But yours is good, too.

[Cleita]

2. Aren't the same players involved in Venezuela?

These people in our government aren't patriots but imperialists and it's time for our leadership to get the guts together to start charging these traitors with treason and I don't care if they are part of the government, they are still crooks and criminals.

[debsianben]

3. Don't Forget Guatemala in the 50s....

...an oldie but goodie, very close to this one in terms of local paramilitary types working hand in hand with U.S. Marines to overthrow an elected government.

Also, for those keeping score, this is the fourth instance of "regime change" carried out by the Bush administration in his four-year term--Afghanistan (2001--regime change by direct invasion), Venezuala (2002--unsucessful attempt at regime change by military coup openly backed by the State Department), Iraq (2003--regime change by direct invasion), and Haiti (2004--regime change by combination of U.S.-backed "uprising" by right-wing death squads, followed by the last stages being carried out by direct invasion).

So far, two of the four victims of U.S.-sponsored "regime change" have been democratically elected (the governments led by Chavez and Aristide), while two were unelected (the Taliban and the Ba'athists). What all four had in common was that they presided over third world countries whose natural resources, cheap labor pool, strategic geographical position, etc., were coveted by Wall Street and the Pentagon and that in all four cases the regimes being changed showed an unacceptable level of disobedience to Washington's imperial dictates. Plus, its just so much damn easier to manage these countries as direct colonies than to go through the hassle of dealing with elections and all that shit.

[tom_paine]

4. "Kinder and Gentler" Nazis

What else would you expect from the Imperial Grandchildren of "Hitler's Angel"

[K8-EEE]

5. He's A Rebel And He'll Never Ever Be Any Good

He's a wild and crazy GUY - Guy Philip that is = Rebel Rouser quoted as saying his hero is Pinochet (and Kissinger too no doubt.)

[thingfish]

6. Yeah. Except they killed Allende.

All they did to Aristide was kidnap him and whisk him away to perhaps the only country in the world that's more dangerous than Iraq right now.

[arcos]

7. I'm not sure Aristide is a good guy as Allende was...

and yes, I agree with a previous poster, I find the Venezuela situation much more similar to Chile.