Another month, another U.S.-backed coup

The U.S. government has apparently backed (or perhaps even led) yet another coup - or regime change.

This month's lucky contestant is Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. He's won a free abduction trip to the Central African Republic - with a complimentary U.S. security accompaniment. There, he can relax in illegal confinement quiet and comfort, free from interrupting telephones, knowing that the hassles of running a government have been stolen are behind him.

Coverage

• Democracy Now, special coverage:
  • Randall Robinson: Aristide Says 'Tell the World It Is a Coup'
  • Rep Maxine Waters: Aristide Says 'I Was Kidnapped'
• AlterNet: U.S.-Sponsored Regime Change in Haiti
• BBC: Aristide accuses America of coup
• News.com.au: US troops 'made Aristide leave'
• CBC: Aristide accuses U.S. of coup d'etat
• Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin: Statement by the Prime Minister
• Christian Science Monitor: Round 2 for US nation-building in Haiti
• New York Daily News: Kerry's Haiti jab: Faults Bush and says he'd send U.S. troops
• Mercury News / Miami Herald: Ousted Haitian President Aristide claims he was "kidnapped"
• CNN: U.N. to send peacekeepers to Haiti
• Metafilter: Aristide Says He Was Kidnapped

More Coverage (added March 2)

• Toronto Star: Canada parrots U.S. line on Haiti
• Rabble.ca: Bush short on empathy for Haitians