Fwd: La Merde
Igor Loving
austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
Fri Mar 12 20:58:07 2004
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<P>I met with my diplomat pal from Germany who was a onetime a pal of Aristide and we drank coffee, ok it was tequilla. He was a diplomat who chose to go to Hatti instead of other cushy places and worked very very hard to hellp. His stories are as awful as awful can be. He alows as how it is all hopeless and that we shoudl just step away from the table and let what may take place. These people are totally screwed up I am sad to say. Having travled in Congo and CAF etc. I agree that money has become the root of all the evil and only mad dogs and english men go out in the noon day sun, americans are too stupid do do anything but fart.<BR><BR></P></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>>From: Frances Morey <FRANCES_MOREY@YAHOO.COM>
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<DIV></DIV>>Subject: Fwd: La Merde
<DIV></DIV>>Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:29:13 -0800 (PST)
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<DIV></DIV>>This correspondent is in Jamaica so we should get some exquisite updates on Aristide's stay there.
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<DIV></DIV>>Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:00:52 -0500
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<DIV></DIV>>From: David Rubinson
<DIV></DIV>>Subject: La Merde
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<DIV></DIV>>Can you believe the guy's name is LaTortue (The Turtle, in French).
<DIV></DIV>>Too bad its not L'Autruche or La Mouflette. *
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<DIV></DIV>>Aristide coming to Jamaica
<DIV></DIV>>Ousted Haitian leader will stay up to 10 weeks
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<DIV></DIV>>http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20040311T230000-0500_57007_OBS_ARISTIDE_COMING_TO_JAMAICA.asp
<DIV></DIV>>Friday, March 12, 2004
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<DIV></DIV>>ARISTIDE. to arrive in Jamaica next week
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<DIV></DIV>>OVERTHROWN Haitian president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, will come to Jamaica next week for a stay of up to 10 weeks, but the Opposition last night branded the government's decision to welcome Aristide as "unwise" and said that he should be allowed to stay for no more than three weeks.
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<DIV></DIV>>Apparently, Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) leader, Edward Seaga, fears that Aristide will use his stay in Jamaica to hatch plots for his return to the Haitian presidency and said that less time here would limit that possibility.
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<DIV></DIV>>"Jamaica must not be a staging ground for any resurgence of the Haitian revolution," Seaga said in a statement. "Our interest must be protected."
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<DIV></DIV>>The US embassy, with which the Jamaican Government has quarrelled over Aristide's ostensible February 29 resignation and transportation to exile in the Central African Republic, declined immediate comment on Jamaica's announcement of the Aristide visit, except that the issue would be watched closely.
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<DIV></DIV>>They, like the Canadians who also supported Aristide's removal from power, were apparently awaiting instructions from their governments.
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<DIV></DIV>>"We can't make extemporaneous comments," said a spokesman for the Canadian high commission. "We need to consult with our government in Canada."
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<DIV></DIV>>Prime Minister P J Patterson, who also chairs the 15-member Caribbean Community (Caricom), announced Aristide's planned visit, and said that the ousted leader and his wife Mildred wanted to return to the Caribbean temporarily and to be reunited with their two young children who are currently in the United States.
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<DIV></DIV>>"I want to emphasise that Mr Aristide is not seeking political asylum in Jamaica," Patterson said. "His stay in Jamaica is not expected to be in excess of eight to 10 weeks. He is engaged in finalising arrangements for permanent residence outside the region."
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<DIV></DIV>>It was not clear where Aristide will go after his Jamaican sojourn, but his next likely stop appears to be South Africa although that country's deputy foreign minister Aziz Pahad said on Wednesday that it was "not sure" the ex-leader of Haiti would be given asylum there. It is believed, though, that a South African asylum will be finalised after the general election on April 14, which President Thabo Mbeki's African National Congress is expected to win.
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<DIV></DIV>>Pahad had held talks with Aristide in the Central African Republic capital of Bangui.
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<DIV></DIV>>It seemed in Bangui that the Central African Republic's leader, Francois Bozize, had no knowledge of Aristide's imminent plan to come to Jamaica.
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<DIV></DIV>>"We are a hospitable country, which is why Jean-Bertrand Aristide is here. And he will stay here for a while," Bozize said on national radio yesterday.
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<DIV></DIV>>Jamaica has communicated its decision to host Aristide to Caricom "and to the governments who were originally involved in working together to seek a solution to the Haitian crisis", Patterson said.
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<DIV></DIV>>The latter reference was apparently to the United States, Canada and France who had initially backed a Caricom initiative for a power-sharing arrangement in Haiti that would have kept Aristide in office for the remaining two years of his presidency, cohabiting with a prime minister chosen by a group of 'wise men'.
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<DIV></DIV>>Caricom felt the region was betrayed by the Western troika when, in the face of Opposition intransigence and a rebel insurgency mounted by former coup plotters and death squad leaders, they abandoned the plan and put pressure on Aristide to leave.
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<DIV></DIV>>Aristide has claimed that he was all but kidnapped and forced out of the country and Caricom, backed by the 53-member African Union, has called for a United Nations-led investigation into the circumstances under which Aristide left Haiti.
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<DIV></DIV>>Significantly, though, Patterson in yesterday's statement referred to the ousted leader as "former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide" and noted that "a new president (Haitian Chief Justice Boniface Alexandre) has taken the oath of office". Previously, Patterson and his Caricom colleagues had questioned the constitutionality of Alexandre's accession.
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<DIV></DIV>>Another signal of Jamaica's and Caricom's pragmatic acceptance of the new situation in Haiti was the apparent acceptance of the appointment of Gerard LaTortue, the former United Nations official, as prime minister under the remnants of the Caricom initiative.
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<DIV></DIV>>"He is well-known to the regional and international community and highly respected," Patterson said.
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<DIV></DIV>>LaTortue, Patterson disclosed, had made direct contact with him, proposing a visit to Jamaica for discussions on the Haitian situation ahead of the Caricom summit in St Kitts later this month. Haiti will be high on the agenda at that meeting.
<DIV></DIV>>LaTortue returned to Haiti on Wednesday and although he has not yet been officially sworn-in to replace Aristide appointee, Yvon Neptune, he has already begun to craft his government.
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<DIV></DIV>>"I came here with my mind open to work with everyone in Haiti," LaTortue said yesterday. "I'm not a member of any political party."
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<DIV></DIV>>But with distrust and anger running deep in Haiti, his job of pulling disparate elements together will not be easy.
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<DIV></DIV>>Yesterday, for instance, shots were fired as hundreds of people carrying parasols with Aristide's image clashed with Haitian police in downtown Belair. Witnesses said at least one woman was wounded.
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<DIV></DIV>>"Aristide has to come back! We don't want Bush as president!" the protesters yelled.
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<DIV></DIV>>"They've named a new prime minister who we don't know," said demonstrator Enock Lubin, 25. "It's an illegal act."
<DIV></DIV>>- Observer reporters and wire services
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<DIV></DIV>> David Rubinson
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<DIV></DIV>>Quote of The Day:
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<DIV></DIV>>"...Aristide did something far worse than stuffing ballots or killing people - he tried to raise the minimum wage, to the princely sum of two dollars a day..."
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<DIV></DIV>>Chris Floyd, Counterpunch March 10,2004
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