Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere and Peace Corps Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations United States Senate
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Excerpt from Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere and Peace Corps Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations United States Senate: One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, March 8, 1994 The subcommittee met at 9:02 a.m., in room SD-419, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Christopher J. Dodd (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Senator Dodd. Senator Dodd. The committee will come to order. At the outset let me invite our colleagues from the House and the Senate who have joined us this morning at the witness table: our colleague from Iowa, Senator Tom Harkin; the distinguished Congressman from New York, Charles Rangel; my neighbor colleague from New England, Joseph P. Kennedy; and the Honorable Carrie Meek from the State of Florida. Let me welcome everyone here this morning. Today the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs meets for the purpose of considering U.S. policy toward Haiti. In the 2 1/2 years since the Aristide Government was overthrown by a military coup, U.S. policy has been driven by one overriding objective: to restore democracy to Haiti by returning President Aristide to power. How far we have come toward meeting that objective and the nature of the work that remains to be done is the focus of this hearing today. On December 16, 1990, the Haitians went to the polls and chose as their President a Roman Catholic priest by the name of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. The election of President Aristide in the most free and fair elections in that nation´s history gave hope to a watching world that Haiti had finally overcome a bitter legacy of repression and military rule. Sadly, Haiti´s brief encounter with democracy would end almost as soon as it began. In September 1991, just 10 months later, military and security forces overthrew the Aristide Government and resumed their iron grip on the people of Haiti. For those who have followed the sad fortunes of Haiti over the recent years, the events of 1991 had a familiar and unsettling ring. Time and again, since the fall of Jean-Claude Duvalier in 1986, the military has taken the reins of power in Haiti. Time and time again the military has promised the international community that reform and democratic rule were just around the corner, and time and time again the military has gone back on its word. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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