[news] Democracy if necessary, but not ...

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"[I]n 1990, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a Canadian-educated priest who built a movement working in the slums, won Haiti's first democratic election with 67.5 per cent of the vote. The U.S.-backed candidate came second with 14.2 per cent. It was called 'a textbook example of participatory, "bottom up" and democratic political development.' He was overthrown by a U.S.-backed coup in 1991, then reinstalled by U.S. troops in 1994 on condition he scrap his equalizing social policies and implement a brutal 'austerity' agenda."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/11/6474/73904