Thread by @rosendo_joe

From WAPO editorial on #Haiti today: "Swift and muscular intervention is needed"

The US & its top allies have trampled democracy & human rights in #Haiti through most of the 21rst century are never held accountable - & therefore keep doing it

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washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…

The editorial provides sanitized overview of the 13 year UN occupation of Haiti from 2004 - 2017 - so sanitized that even tho it says the occupation was "far cry from perfect" but nevertheless calls for it again.

"It's good enough for Haitians" seems to be the msg.

Editorial mentions that UN troops brought a cholera epidemic to Haiti but not that it killed 10,000 people. Obama's government fought in court (successfully) to shield the UN from a lawsuit aimed at holding it accountable

telesurenglish.net/opinion/US-Cou…

"The U.N. force did manage, however, to bring a modicum of stability to Haiti following the 2004 uprising that deposed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. "

US troops kidnapped Aristide after economic sanctions it imposed shortly after he was elected in 2000 failed to oust him

After the US perpetrated a coup in 2004 (literally kidnapping Aristide) UN troops came in to prop up the US-backed Latortue dictatorship that killed thousands of Aristide's supporters (probably ~ 4000 by 2006)

In 2006, despite the election rigged against them by the dictatorship, Rene Preval (who was barely able to campaign) won what was undoubtedly a legitimate victory, but his tentative steps towards restoring Haiti's sovereignty were destroy in the wake of massive earthquake in 2010

Thanks to Wikileaks we are able to flesh out that US & its allies basically see Haiti as a small but important pawn in the region

zcomm.org/zblogs/wikilea…

Wikileaks also gave us a sense of what little room Preval had to maneuver before the earthquake in 2010 gave the US a fresh excuse to impose completely illegitimate governments on Haiti
zcomm.org/zblogs/wikilea…

Key article to read from 2011:

U.S., EU Backed Haitian Election, Deeming “Too Much Invested” to Pull Out
haitiliberte.com/us-eu-backed-h…

So reinvigorated US bullying after 2010 leads Haiti to right wing candidates winning elections where barely anyone shows up. Moise, who was just assassinated, received the votes of about 10% of the electorate in 2016.

& WAPO just called for the wretched history to repeat itself

One other thing important to recall from 2004: #Venezuela under Chavez along with Cuba and CARICOM states oppsed the US coup against Aristide’s democratically elected government