The shocking truth is that Medicines Sans Frontier and other medical help and much needed food and other supplies have been refused entry or held up at the Airport by US military. So capitalist USA sends in the military and troops (just what the people didn’t need) while in contrast socialist Cuba provides doctors giving much needed *free* medical support. Cuba also offered doctors for New Orleans but the US turned the offer down.

The best thing for Haiti is if the West stopped interferring in the affairs of the country, allow the people’s chosen elected representative, namely President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to return.

Here’s a quote from Naomi Clein, who wrote The Shock Doctrine. “[After] early 1994 . . . Washington’s negotiators made one demand that Aristide could not accept: the immediate selloff of Haiti’s state-owned enterprises, including phones and electricity. Aristide argued that unregulated privatization would transform state monopolies into private oligarchies, increasing the riches of Haiti’s elite and stripping the poor of their national wealth.”[1]

The 2004 Haitian rebellion was a coup d’etat that happened after conflicts that occurred for several weeks in Haiti during February 2004. It resulted in the premature end of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s second term, in which he left Haiti on a United States (U.S.) plane accompanied by U.S. military/security personnel. Controversy remains regarding the extent of the involvement of the U.S. in his departure and whether or not the departure was voluntary. Aristide described his departure as a kidnapping.

By the way large and as yet untapped oil reserves have been found off the coast of Haiti.