There’s been much written on this site, and across the Web, as well as being broadcast on radio and television, and published in newspapers and magazines, about the recent coup in Haiti. But for many, none of what has been written or broadcast has much “value”, because there is no “human face” to put on the changes that the coup has wrought.
Jay Currie comments on this site and chides me for seeming to defend the deposed Haiti President, Jean Bertrand Aristide, when such is not the argument that has consistently been put forward on VanRamblings. Rather, my concern is for the people of Haiti, and of what the recent actions of the U.S. (and, by extension, Canada) in fomenting insurrectionary change, means for the people of Haiti (not much good, I would suggest).
Tonight, the human face of the coup, the story of an 18-year-old boy. Tell me, after reading Johnny’s story that Aristide being deposed is, in itself and wholly, a good thing, and that the world community could not have found a more workable and humane solution to the problems in Haiti, and engaged in a process which would have preserved the dignity of the Haitian people.
