CUPE researcher and Haiti activist, Kevin Skerrett, writing in today’s issue of Z-Mag on “George Bush’s coup d’etat in Haiti” focusses on the role of the Canadian government, indicting the Liberals for offering succour to the U.S. and French as their strategy of financial strangulation of the Aristide government led to inevitable regime change.
“Today, in early 2004, the new Martin government is eager to demonstrate its enthusiasm for a renewal of the Canada-US partnership, and the recent crisis in Haiti presented the first significant foreign policy loyalty test for the Prime Minister,” Skerrett opines in his essay’s thoughtful introduction.
Update, March 3rd: also have a look at rabble.ca’s analysis of the coup, and this article, titled “Bush’s Haiti nightmare”, by Salon’s Tim Grieve.
