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Originally posted by Scipio
News sources are reporting today that Aristide has stepped down, his constitutional successor (the Chief Justice) has stepped up, and that all this was facilitated by the US.
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Aristide did not
step down... A contingent of US troops (and possibly some Frenchies and Canadians) stormed the national palace and told him he had to vacate the country.
Initially he tried to negociate certain conditions for his departures--conditions to which the US initially accepted. However, when he stopped by his mansion to pick up some belongings he reneged on his agreements (as he has done repeatedly in the past) and claimed he was here to stay. Word has it that they roughed him up a little, put handcuffs on him, and carried him off to the airport where he was put in a small unmarked business jet and flown off to the Dominican Republic awaiting acceptance from a country to take him into exile.
Apparently Taiwan, Panama, and Morocco have refused to grant him exile....so it is likely he might end up in South Africa since Thabo Mbeki seems to be buddy-buddy with him.
I just wish the US troops had kept him in Haiti long enough for the Haitian people to judge and execute him for his crimes.