libertine81 writes:
Would you say Aristide is a non-corrupt leader who knows what’s best for his country? By the way, I do wish Haiti all the best. They’ve been through so much suffering already.
Father Aristide was a very, very, very good man. He wasn’t a Communist. He certainly did not install a Communist system. He didn’t have install a socialist system. He just tinkered around the edges of Haitian capitalism really.
Father Aristide was a priest! Almost incorruptible. We removed him from his mansion in the middle of the night at gunpoint with a force of armed men pointing automatic weapons at him and ordering him to go. Then we put him on a plane and ordered him to leave the country. Aristide is not allowed back in Haiti, on orders of the US. And he can never be President again, on orders of the US.
The last election he had he won 92% of the vote. It was a free and fair vote with no fraud. That’s how popular he was.
Haiti has always been run by a tiny elite who stole every nickel in the place and left everyone else to starve and eat mud pies. They have almost no support except for a bunch of armed thugs they bought off called Tonton Macoutes.
They are opposed by the vast majority of Haitians because they have never done one damn thing for them. Those 92% who voted for Aristide is the percentage of the population the elites have been screwing forever.
posted on 08 June at 20:29
"Corruption" is a accusation usually invoked by those in privileged countries when commenting on difficulties in developing countries.
I'm assuming that Libertine81 is from the USA
If so, it's rather thoughless for someone from a country that simply "lost" over a trillion dollars to be pointing fingers at any other country — let alone the heavily exploited Haiti — and invoking "corruption" as a possible condition.
It's just there's this story last week that The Red Cross collected $500 millon for earthquake relief and was able to build only six houses! Look it up. That is only the tip of The Iceberg.
To try to proffer a determination of "corrupt" or "non-corrupt" when describing any leader in Haiti, is absurd, at best.
As for President Aristide and the Fanmi Lavalas Political organization: While the figure 95% is technically correct in some election situations. It does conflate the numbers for the sake of trying to make a point. On the other hand, in just about every contest (electoral) it is no exaggeration that most of the Fanmi Lavalas candidates, in most elections, had the overwhelming support of the electorate. In most every contest they would have garnered over 70% of the vote if it was run fairly.
And that's one last point, the USA does not see a fair election in its own presidential races — yet, it somehow feels that it can tell Haiti how to administer their own…