Peter Hallward Untangles the Truth About Haiti From a Web of Lies
By: Joe Emersberger - HaitiAnalysis.com
In "Damning the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment" Peter Hallward meticulously explains how, on February 29 of 2004, the U.S. managed to "topple one of the most popular governments in Latin America but it managed to topple it in a manner that wasn't widely criticized or even recognized as a coup at all." Imperial powers do not reinvent the wheel when it comes to undermining democracy in poor countries. Hallward identifies valuable lessons for people who wish to limit the damage that powerful countries inflict on the weak.
The narrative he presents is not complicated, but to present it he must expose countless lies and half truths and brilliantly explore many simple questions that corporate journalists invariably failed to ask.

Did He Jump or Was He Pushed? Aristide and the 2004 Coup in Haiti
by Peter Hallward
December 15, 2007
haitianalysis.com

BBC Worldwide Monitoring
October 7, 2004, Thursday
Haiti: Minustah head announces changes in its composition, requests patience
Radio Metropole, Port-au-Prince, in French 1700 gmt 6 Oct 04
Text of report from the "Midday News" broadcast by Haitian Metropole radio on 6 October

The commander of the Minustah UN Mission for Stabilization in Haiti troops has issued a call for the Haitian people to show patience in the face of the acts of violence that are affecting people in the metropolitan area.

UN Arrested 40 Ahead of Harper's Haiti Visit
Many demonstrators remain in jail
by Stuart Neatby
The Dominion - http://www.dominionpaper.ca
Forty Haitian demonstrators were arrested by UN soldiers hours before the arrival of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in the Haitian slum neighbourhood of Cite Soleil on July 20. Haiti was the last stop for the Prime Minister's Latin American tour, which also included stops in Colombia, Chile, and Barbados. The protest had been organized by residents of Cite Soleil in response to the visit of the Canadian Prime Minister, according to Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine, a protest organizer and director of the Haiti-based September 30th Foundation.

The politics of drugs in Haiti
HIP - The US Drug Enforcement Agency’s recent attempt to hunt down former policeman, paramilitary commander and presidential candidate Guy Philippe on drug charges can be traced back to a recent arrest in the town of Gonaives, Haiti.
Haitian police and Argentinean units of the UN arrested Wilfort Ferdinand, alias Ti Wil; on May 26 after he gave a lengthy interview on local radio station Radio Gonaives FM. Although news of Ferdinand's arrest received scant attention in the international press it was one of the top stories throughout Haiti the following day. Much of the reporting in the Haitian press focused on the shared history of Wilfort Ferdinand and Guy Philippe in leading paramilitary forces that helped to oust the government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

February 28, 2007 (Seven Oaks, www.sevenoaksmag.com)
Three years later: Canada must be held accountable for Haiti coup
by Derrick O'Keefe
Canada has made a significant contribution to stability in Haiti,” noted
George W. Bush, in remarks to the media after meeting with Prime Minister
Stephen Harper in July 2006 (1).
Three years after Canada helped lead a coup d'état against the
democratically elected government of Haiti, almost no one in Ottawa has been
held accountable for this crime against the sovereignty of the hemisphere’s
poorest nation.

The Freedom of the Press Barons
The media and the 2004 Haiti coup
February 1, 2007
by Isabel Macdonald
The Dominion - http://www.dominionpaper.ca
In February 2004, the US, Canadian and French governments supported
an illegal coup d'etat that overthrew Haiti's democratically elected
government of the Lavalas party, led by Jean-Bertrand Aristide. In
late 2003, "civil society" groups--financed and supported through US
and Canadian government-funded "democracy enhancement" programs--
began calling for Aristide's ouster. They were joined in early
February 2004 by armed terror squads. In the pre-dawn hours of
February 29, 2004, President Jean Bertrand Aristide, who had been
elected with 92 per cent of the popular vote, was forcibly removed
from Haiti on a US government airplane, while Canada's Joint Task
Force 2 secured the airport.

Another Massacre in Cite Soleil? Haitian Human Rights Activist Accuses UN of Killing Dozens in Recent Attack on Port Au Prince Neighborhood
Friday, December 29th, 2006
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/29/1446230
Haitian human rights activist Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine discusses last week's UN raid of Cite Soleil. Published reports put the death toll as high as 17 but Pierre-Antoine said the actual death toll could reach 80. [rush transcript included]
In Haiti, more than 1000 people marched through the streets of Port Au Prince Thursday to protest the presence of UN forces in the country, and to call for the return to power of the democratically elected former President Jean Bertrand Aristide. Aristide lives in exile in South Africa after his ouster in a US-backed coup nearly three years ago.
Thursday's march followed the deaths of as many as seventeen civilians who were shot by UN troops in the capital city's impoverished Cite Soleil neighborhood last week.

Take hard look at Haiti if you think Canada is building democracy
By CHRISTIAN HEYNE
Halifax Chronicle Herald, Pg A11
http://www.halifaxherald.com/Search/548180.html
WE ALL are concerned about democracy and human rights. Especially around the time of celebration of Christmas, a time for extra compassion. When Afghanistan comes up in Canadian debate, it is the military method that is questioned by many, not the idea of helping Afghanis to have a life. Democracy we support, officially, and privately anyway. Or do we? I am afraid some Canadians at the top are speaking with "forked tongue."
There seems to be a disconnect between the leading lights of our country and the population at large. While most Canadians see themselves as peacemakers still – even the footsoldiers – there is a little problem in the real world of our actions abroad. Canadian CEOs, think tanks, fast-talking military brass, the politicians, all seem to have little respect for the Canadian majority when it comes to foreign policy actions.

TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEWS ON HAITI: THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES
Broadcast on WBAI, 99.5 FM every Saturday from 3 - 4 p.m.*
PROGRAM OF OCTOBER 14, 2006
1) From New York, an interview with Berthony Dupont, author of the new book "Jean-Jacques Dessalines: Itinéeaire d'un révolutionnaire" (Jean-Jacques Dessalines: Itinerary of a Revolutionary)
Kim Ives: Right now, on the phone, we have with us Berthony Dupont, the author of the book "Jean-Jacques Dessalines: Itineraire d'un revolutionnaire" which has just been published by L'Harmattan. Berthony, are you there?
Berthony Dupont: Yes, I am there.
Kim Ives: Very good. Welcome to the show, Berthony. We are celebrating the 200th anniversary of Jean-Jacques Dessalines – or, not celebrating, but recognizing...
Berthony Dupont: Commemorating.
Kim Ives: ... commemorating the 200th anniversary of Jean-Jacques Dessalines' death, which will be 200 years ago three days from now...
Berthony Dupont: Not his death. Better to say his assassination rather than death...