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Article: History Shines Light on Haiti Occupation
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- Portland Skanner
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- September 21, 1994
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Mike Axley
Portland Skanner
09-21-1994
History Shines Light on Haiti Occupation.
American armed forces now occupy Haiti for the first time since U.S. Marines left the island in 1934.
While the media have followed Haiti closely since its first popularly elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was deposed in 1991, less attention has been paid to the history of the island before Aristide came to power.
This lack persists despite the fact that Haiti's greater history is fundamentally involved in its present-day difficulties.
And while American and Haitian citizens have high hopes for this most recent of the United States into Haitian affairs, history suggests that achieving any long-term ...