“On June 29th, 2005 Congressman Dan Burton (R-IN), the Chairman of the subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, read bill H.R. 611 – The Haiti Economic Infrastructure Reconstruction Act of 2005. The bill was written by Congressmen Rangle (D-NY), Foley (R-FL), and Shaw (R-FL). The bill passed the subcommittee and most likely will soon go to congress for a vote. With a recommended “funding of $6 million”, the bill could put millions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer’s money at the disposal of Interim President Gerard Latortue’s coup regime.
“The bill would also place American citizens in the precarious employment of possibly working for a dictatorship, stating that “U.S. citizens will be recruited and deployed to Haiti to provide economic and infrastructure reconstruction and development assistance to the Government of Haiti. The bill sets forth specific program provisions, including: (1) maximum recruitment of Haitian-Americans, and (2) maximum one-year deployment, with a maximum two-year additional stay.” Burton explained that this bill would help bring forward the electoral cycle, registering campaigns, and providing security for disarmament.”
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Have the Latortues Kidnapped Democracy in Haiti?
by Anthony Fenton