Growing Concern in Foreign Circles Over Democracy Protests
by Canada-Haiti Action Network (CHAN)
A Canadian Press story appears in the May 22 Globe and Mail and also on the website of CBC news are linked below.

 

It's a clear indicator of the concern now prevailing in Canadian government circles over rising protests in Haiti that threaten to derail and unmask the political fraud that the foreign powers have been passing off to the world since the 2004 coup against Haiti's elected president and government, namely that they assisted in the overthrow out of concern for the welfare of the Haitian people.

According to Agence haitienne de presse, protests against Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council will continue and grow in the coming weeks. Another national day of protest action has been set for May 26, 27. Clearly this is rattling the foreign governments, including Canada. In contrast to the producers and editors in Canada's print and broadcast media, the Canadian government is monitoring events in Haiti very closely.

As a consequence of the recent protests, the foreign overseers of Haiti are now feigning concern about democracy there. Of note in the following article is the reference to the "coup" of 2004, the accurate reporting of the popular demand for the return of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to Haiti, and the clever maneuvering of Haiti's elite, in the person of Charles Henri Baker, to position itself as a voice for "democracy" in Haiti. As recent articles to this website have reported, there is a live debate in Haiti over alliances to be built, and avoided, in the struggle for democracy in the post-earthquake period.



Canada presses for Haitian elections

Friday, May 21, 2010, Canadian Press

Published on http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2010/05/21/mtl-cannon-haiti-elec...

Canada is pressuring Haiti to make a firm commitment to holding elections by the end of the year as domestic opposition grows to President René Préval's response to the earthquake.