[news] Time for Lula to Stop Doing Bush's Dirty Work in Haiti

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

When **President Lula** relieved U.S. Marines in Haiti by having Brazil take the lead of the UN peacekeeping mission (MINUSTAH) in early 2004, he got Bush, whose troops were spread thin, out of a tight spot...MINUSTAH['s]...true purpose was to consolidate the February 29, 2004 coup against the democratically-elected government of **Jean-Bertrand Aristide**...In order to fulfill its mission of supporting the illegitimate, unpopular and brutal Interim Government of Haiti...MINUSTAH was forced to join the dictatorship's attacks on poor neighborhoods that would never accept the overthrow of their democracy.

  


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