haiti

Haiti's voodoo priests object to mass burials Not seeing a conflict between Christianity and voodou is Santeria. Or perhaps a form of it; what little I know of it is from the book and movie Serpent and the Rainbow which explored real zombies in the form of people convinced they were dead by...

It's been one year since the democratically elected president of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was taken from the country by US personnel. He says he was kidnapped, the US says otherwise. He remains in exile in South Africa. Very recently pro-Aristide marchers were fired upon by the police...

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?floc=NW_1-T&oldflok=FF-APO-1102&idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20040921%2F0906966712.htm&sc=1102&photoid=20040919X105 A terrible tragedy.

Yikes! http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,6119,2-10-1462_1523026,00.html

OK Just asking Why are we in Haiti and what are trying to accomplish? The population is some 7.5 million with a realized AIDS population at 225,000-500,000, has no natural resources , including the ability to feed itself, has had a revolving door irresponsible government of despots since 1900...

http://thehill.com/news/030204/haiti.aspx ...full article I guess it's ok to support a tyrant as long as he is black.

US troops 'made Aristide leave' From correspondents in Paris March 1, 2004 HAITIAN leader Jean Bertrand Aristide was taken away from his home by US soldiers, it was claimed today. A man who said he was a caretaker for the now exiled president told France's RTL radio station the troops forced...

1. The leftist kooks say we are only in Haiti to help Bush's friends in the caribbean resort industry. 2. On democratunderground forums people will claim we are only in Haiti to cleanup Clinton's mess. 3. Someone will equate Clinton installing Aristide with Nixon era intervention like Chile or...

Hello all, This came up in another thread, but I wish to look further into it. There seem to be many on the left, on this forum, who opposed military intervention into Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo in the 1990s, or at least they say they did. Some of the usual reasons are given (No UN mandate...