Interview w/ Haiti Liberte Editor, Kim Ives on US Meddling, Aristide, Martelly and Plans for a Haitian Army http://hcvanalysis.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/interview-with-haiti-liberte-editor-kim-ives-us-meddling-aristide-martelly-and-return-of-the-army/

Martelly’s program is very clear. He was a supporter of the dictator Baby Doc Duvalier. He was a very close associate of the army figures who carried out the first coup against Aristide in 1991 and a cheerleader for the paramilitary forces that carried out the second coup against Aristide in 2004.I think we can expect to see a predictably repressive policy from him. And he’s also made no bones about the fact that he’s going to follow a neoliberal path. He keeps saying that he intends to make Haiti a “business-friendly” country. In a very strange and symbolic act, he met with the Colombian foreign minister and said,

“We’re going to follow the Colombian development plan”–that is, neoliberalism enforced at gunpoint.MARTELLY HAS floated the idea of bringing back the Haitian Army. Why is he pushing for this now?THE RIGHT wing and the ruling classes have been demanding the reconstitution of the army ever since Aristide disbanded it in 1995.Washington is, of course, very sympathetic to this as well. They see a new army–really, the old army–as their insurance policy. If bullying and bribery doesn’t work and a resistance to the occupation challenges the U.S., it could always resort to the army to keep control of the country.

[ALSO SEE..HAITI: The Next Round by Robert Roth http://hcvanalysis.wordpress.com/2011/06/28/haiti-the-next-round-by-robert-roth/ .Haiti's tragedy: A crime of US imperialism www.wsws.org/articles/2010/jan2010/pers-j21.shtml Haiti Under Siege 200 years of U.S. imperialism http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Haiti/Haiti_Under_Seige.html Bush, Clinton and the Crimes of US Imperialism in Haiti http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17059 A Prefab Parliament, Prefab President, and Prefab Constitution for Occupied Haiti http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_62991.shtml ------------------------

Haiti and American Colonialism : The Story Behind the Story http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/haiti-and-american-colonialism-story.html All You Need to Know About US Policy Towards Haiti and How This Translates to Critical Effects from Earthquake http://hondurasoye.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/all-you-need-to-know-about-us-policy-towards-haiti-and-how-this-translates-to-critical-effects-from-earthquake/ Haiti and America's Historic Debt www.consortiumnews.com/2010/011310.html Why the Blood Is on Our Hands http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24391.htm The Militarization of Emergency Aid to Haiti: Is it a Humanitarian Operation or an Invasion? http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17000