Posted on 08/03/2009 10:24:44 AM PDT by Ooh-Ah
In October 1994, President Bill Clinton used the U.S. military to force Haiti to take back former President Jean Bertrand Aristide, an intolerant populist who had been deposed in a coup three years earlier. The Haitian people didn’t fare well under the decade of Aristide tyranny and corruption following that U.S. intervention. But key Democrats, who secured contracts with the Haitian government, did.
This sad chapter in U.S. foreign policy is a reminder of the immortal words of the French statesman Charles Talleyrand: “Countries don’t have friends, they have interests.” The Clinton administration had interests in Haiti. And that fact is worth recalling as President Barack Obama, defying all logic, insists that Castro-ally Manuel Zelaya be restored to the presidency in Honduras. ...
... Another lesson from Haiti is that a Caribbean despot can offer good terms to foreign investors. Since the Haiti episode Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez has conducted a courtship with Democrats too. He gives Mr. Kennedy’s Citizen’s Energy company cut-price home-heating oil that the former Massachusetts congressman distributes to the poor in order to polish the Democrats’ image. Never mind about Venezuelans suffering under chavismo.
This is something to keep in mind as the Obama administration proposes that the U.S. embargo on Cuba be modified so Americans can invest in its telecom sector. It’s not clear how those contracts will be awarded. Or what one would have to do to raise the odds of being considered in the running.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Yes, Clintinoids had the monopoly on telecom in Haiti.
And remember also that Ron Brown, while head of DNC, was also Haiti’s representative in the US. When they froze Haiti’s assets, they unfroze just enough to pay for Aristide’s expenses while in exile and to pay Ron Brown’s fee as their representative. This amounted if I recall correctly to hundreds of thousands per month.
So Aristide always had an “in” with the Clintons and the DNC.
This is a very important article. I am sure Obama is not only sympathetic to Chavez (socialist birds of a feather) but is also thinking of the goodies he and the Democrat party and some of his corrupt friends might get from Chavez and Castro by favoring them.
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I think that Hondurans are in firm control of their country and their future. They will not let outsiders dictate their affairs.
Its amazing how the Democrats, the champions of the poor, have no problem with stealing from the third world.
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