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      The Haitian military is closely linked to the
      U.S.military. The high command was trained by the
      United States military. The CIA has been closely linked
      with Haitian intelligence, which it helped to set up,
      including the Drug Enforcement Agency, which is also
      linked with high Haitian officials. The Haitian elite,
      the small and super-wealthy sector, is very tightly
      integrated with the U.S. aid system; it sought during
      the eighties to use its resources to turn Haiti into an
      offshore assembly plant fourteen-cent-an-hour labor,
      from which wealthy Haitian businessmen prospered
      enormously.

      When Aristide took over, the United States at once
      turned against his government and U.S. aid dropped. For
      example, the U.S. aid organizations never provided a
      penny to the peasant organizations, and Haiti is after
      all a peasant country. Their aid goes to wealthy
      manufacturers.This is absolutely consistent with U.S.
      policy everywhere else in the world, in fact even in
      the United States, where the general population is
      considered a sort of enemy which has no role in the
      political system, it is supposed to watch from the
      outside.The political system is to be run by privileged
      sectors and in the third world this is just
      transparent, Haiti is an extreme example of it.

      The Governor's Island Accord makes very explicit for
      Aristide to settle the problem with what they call more
      progressive elements of the business community. More
      progressive elements mea not those who think you ought
      to slaughter the population rather those who think you
      ought to enslave them, that you ought to have them
      working in assembly plants for pennies, literally
      fourteen cents an hour, mainly women because they're
      considered to be more docile and easily repressed, and
      they'll make huge profits from it.

      The third world is totally demoralized and in dissaray,
      especially after the economic catastrophys of the
      capitalist world in the 1980's. Japan and East Asia are
      involved, but they are not big actors in the U.N. The
      U.S. refused to pay its dues, it pressured the U.N to
      eliminate the third world oriented institutions. It was
      only willing to accept the U.N. back again when it was
      willing to follow orders, in 1990. Then the U.N.
      suddenly became the darling of the U.S. press. England
      has always been a very loyal client. By now Russia is
      maybe as loyal as England, or even more so. France will
      occasionally make some noises, but not much more, and
      China, given its dependence on U.S. trade, will at most
      obstain. That gives the U.S. control of the security
      council.

      They've enlisted some elements  in the CIA to produce a
      lot of disinformation about this. Simply take the
      narco-trafficking, for example. It's perfectly open.
      State Department reports published the fact that the
      military rulers survive on the basis of
      narco-trafficking. I wouldn't be at all surprised if in
      a year or two from now there's an election in which
      people from the Duvalier government win, and it will be
      called an open and fair election. There will be
      European election observers saying that nobody stole at
      the ballot boxes. When people get desperate enough and
      the only method of survival is to associate yourself
      with extremely repressive structures, they will do so.
      Europe knows that. Just think of what happened under
      the Nazis.



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