t is not only by bombing and invasion that the neoconservative side of the Bush administration is able to get rid of governments it doesn’t like. Economic sanctions, political coercion and outright subversion can also be the order of the day.
“At least twice I was present when the president [Aristide] hung up the phone on some US official, making demands during these last days,” said one of Aristide’s personal Haitian security guards, who asked to remain anonymous .
As Aristide himself stepped from his plane into exile in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, he made a remark that cannot fail to have resonance with many ordinary Haitians.
“In overthrowing me, they cut down the tree of peace, but it will grow again, because its roots are well planted,” he said, alluding to a famous statement by the fabled leader of Haiti’s revolution, former slave and stable boy Toussaint L’Ouverture, who was entrapped by the French, bound, and hustled away from Haiti on a ship never to see his country again.
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