Image uploaded from a quicklink (Image by Unknown Owner) Details DMCA | US officials led a far-reaching international campaign aimed at keeping former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide exiled in South Africa, rendering him a virtual prisoner there for the last seven years, according to secret US State Department cables.
The cables show that high-level US and UN officials even discussed a politically motivated prosecution of Aristide to prevent him from "gaining more traction with the Haitian population and returning to Haiti." The secret cables, made available to the Haitian weekly newspaper Haà ¯ti Libertà © by WikiLeaks, show how the political defeat of Aristide and his Lavalas movement has been the central pillar of US policy toward the Caribbean nation over the last two US administrations, even though--or perhaps because--US officials understood that he was the most popular political figure in Haiti. |