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The Kidnapping Of Haiti
Pilger, John
http://www.countercurrents.org/pilger280110.htmDate Written: 2010-01-28 Publisher: Countercurrents Year Published: 2010 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX11695 Not for tourists is the US building its fifth-biggest embassy. Oil was found in Haiti's waters decades ago and the US has kept it in reserve until the Middle East begins to run dry. More urgently, an occupied Haiti has a strategic importance in Washington's "rollback" plans for Latin America. The goal is the overthrow of the popular democracies in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador, control of Venezuela's abundant petroleum reserves, and sabotage of the growing regional co-operation. Subject Headings |