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Americans Flee Haiti As Rebellion Spreads

2004-02-21

Scores of Americans, including missionaries and aid workers, streamed out of Haiti on Friday to escape a two-week rebellion that has overwhelmed the impoverished country's north. Many police deserted their posts, and rebels threatened new attacks this weekend. Later in the day, American and other diplomats handed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide a plan that calls for an interim governing council to advise him, and appoint a prime minister agreeable to both sides. But both sides were almost certain to reject it — Aristide because he has said he will not negotiate with the opposition, and the rival leaders because they want Aristide to step down.

Guess they'll just have to fight it out, then...

Pro-government militants burned 15 homes in the western port of St. Marc overnight, and three people died in the fires, independent Radio Galaxie reported. A day after the U.S. government urged Americans to leave Haiti, more than 200 people from the United States, France and Canada stood in long lines Friday at Toussaint Louverture International Airport, anxious to get out.

Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#5 Temporarily.....1/3 to France, 1/3 to Quebec, 1/3 to Louisiana, 1/3 to Australia, 1/3 to Nambibia.
Let's leave Louisiana out of it. I'd also recommending sending the entire population to Darfur. IF they like to fight so much, let's give them something interesting to fight about.

Posted by: Old Patriot 2004-2-21 10:41:38 PM

#4 What Steve W. said.
In the tropics it's even worse it lays bare the soil for 80 - 90 inches of rain barrelling down the mountains....
Temporarily.....1/3 to France, 1/3 to Quebec, 1/3 to Louisiana, 1/3 to Australia, 1/3 to Nambibia.

Posted by: Shipman 2004-2-21 3:18:12 PM

#3 I think he means destructive to the environment. Charcoal production involves stripping the land of its forests and cooking the wood down to charcoal -- very labor intense, lots of fumes, no more trees, etc. And then you use charcoal and that's more fumes and smoke in the environment.

Posted by: Steve White 2004-2-21 12:29:57 PM

#2 Shipman- what do you mean by "a more destructive fuel"?

Posted by: Craig 2004-2-21 11:09:46 AM

#1 Haiti's worse than a failed state, it's a hopeless state. That half of the island needs about 150 years to recover. And while I'm on the subject, is there a more destructive fuel that charcoal?

Posted by: Shipman 2004-2-21 8:04:53 AM

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