autogolpe or dicatorship? in haiti it's the norm

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In Haiti, Jean Bertrand Aristide used violence, corruption, and drug trafficking for profit coupled with electoral manipulation in 2000 in order to carry out an autogolpe.

He also failed due to popular protests and had to resign in 2004. And in Venezuela, President Chavez has been applying the autogolpe tactics since his election to remain indefinitely in power.

He is actively promoting these practices to other ALBA countries.

(Note: ALBA is a coalition of countries that created an non free market trade structure.

It is comprised of Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba. This group would not exist without Chavez's petro dollars.

Democratic principles are under assault in all five countries which have experienced autogolpes.) In Haiti, currently a beneficiary member of the the Chavez-ALBA partnership, President Preval is employing the ALBA model of autogolpe tactics

Electoral coup by naming a partisan electoral body and through the manipulation of elections results at the polling station during the senate elections of April 19 and June 21, 2009

Illegal amendment of the constitution to eliminate term limits and reduce the power of Parliament while consolidating the powers of the presidency

Economic coup to steal and transfer revenue generating state enterprises to his friends of the private sector (Groupe de Bourdon and foreign profiteers

Rene Preval's autogolpe is being executed so far without the objection of the United Nations or the OAS missions in Haiti that are there to support democracy supposedly.

The handling of the April 19 and June 21 elections were in complete violation of the principles of the Democratic Charter.

MINUSTAH, the UN mission in country, applauded the elections while all sectors of Haitian society expressed public frustration and still might revolt against this electoral coup. Tolerating the manipulation of the electoral results, which gave Preval's party the majority in the senate, will result in a new crisis in Haiti.

These problems need to be addressed now before they become a crisis that will be impossible to manage at the last minute.

When people take to the streets in Haiti, the President is forced to resign as was the case for Presidents Duvalier and Aristide.

Diaspora, August 13 2009, 2:27 PM

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