The Inter Press Service reports that CARICOM has agreed to turn the ‘investigation’ of Aristide’s ‘ouster’ (let’s be polite for once) over to the Organization of American States (OAS, which Che Guevara called ‘the department of colonies’) instead of the United Nations. CARICOM has been under tremendous pressure from the US and Canada to accept the coup and stop asking questions, and this can probably be viewed as the first sign that the pressure is working. Evidence is circumstantial, but it’s likely that the OAS played a hand in the coup in the first place: a member of the OAS apparently said, before the coup, that: “the trouble is the international community is so screwed up that you have Haiti being run by Haitians”…
Odd, because it isn’t as if the United Nations wasn’t helpful to the US/France/Canada in allowing the coup to happen… but no doubt the OAS is even easier to control and more predictable. Think of the headaches caused by a Hans Blix, a Dennis Halliday, or a Hans von Sponeck for the US in Iraq. Little risk of such a person coming up through the OAS…
