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<font size=3>From: haiti action <action.haiti@gmail.com><br><br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4><i>Take a step towards
restoring democracy to Haiti</i>:
say</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3> <b>YES TO
ARISTIDE'S IMMEDIATE RETURN!<br><br>
</b></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4>Call President
Obama (202-456-1111) and Secretary of State Clinton (202-647-4000), as
well as your member of Congress (202-224-3121 and insist that the US stop
interfering with President Aristide's right to return to Haiti
immediately. <br><br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3><b>Former Haitian
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, exiled in South Africa since the 2004
coup d'etat, was recently issued a passport, but the US State Department
has openly stated that he should not return to Haiti before the March 20
run-off for November’s fraudulent presidential election. That's why it's
imperative that we keep up the pressure. Please make these three
phone calls today!<br><br>
</b>In his recent Miami-Herald Opinion piece, Ira Kurzban said: <br><br>
<i>“The ball is now in South Africa’s court. Even though Aristide has
every right to return under Haitian and international law, documents
recently revealed by Wikileaks show that the U.S. and the Brazilian
governments have pressured the South African government to keep Aristide
there. The United States imposes its will, as the most powerful nation on
Earth, to keep in distant exile the deposed president of one of the
weakest. Former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, meanwhile, walks free,
gives press conferences and makes ceremonial visits around Haiti.
<br><br>
The return of Duvalier – accompanied by former death squad leader Louis
Jodel Chamblain as his security chief – to Haiti last month revealed the
stark double standard in U.S.-Haitian relations, one that harkens back to
a shameful era, when the U.S. government propped up the brutal Duvalier
regimes for decades. The danger is not only from his impunity, but from
the threat of a re-legitimization of Duvalierism. <u>Haiti now stands on
the verge of a precipice; an extreme right-wing political turn – one that
openly favors the rich and despises the poor – lies below. <br><br>
The U.S. government is not a neutral spectator to this situation – this
is clear from Obama-administration statements more opposed to the idea of
Aristide’s return than to Duvalier’s ongoing presence.</u> Even worse,
the United States has been pressuring the Haitian authorities into
arbitrarily allowing kompa singer Michel Martelly (who is known to have
supported Duvalier in the past, and who got the support of just 4.5
percent of registered voters) to proceed to an elections run-off against
former first lady Mirlande Manigat (who received 6.4 percent support from
registered voters).”<br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3><i>Emphasis added. Read the
<a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/02/14/2066861/in-defense-of-aristide.html">
entire article</a><br>
</i></font> <br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3><i>See </i></font>
<a href="http://www.haitisolidarity.net/article.php?id=498">On My Return
to Haiti</a> by Jean-Bertrand Aristide<br>
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<i>See</i>
<a href="http://www.haitisolidarity.net/article.php?id=503">Haiti: Annul
the Elections, stop the Duvalier Restoration, Return President
Aristide</a> by Charlie Hinton<br>
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