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[The following article by Jane Regan is reprinted with the permission of Noticias Aliadas in Lima, Peru. It appeared in the Sept. 23, 2002, edition of Latinamerica Press.]
After two years of political impasse that led to what Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide called an "aid embargo," on Sept. 4 the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) issued Resolution 822, giving the green light for 2003 elections and the resumption of foreign aid to the hemisphere's poorest nation.
The move came just days after another OAS body, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), condemned the Aristide government and expressed "profound concern" about the lack of respect for freedom of expression, the "fragility of the rule of law," and tolerance of armed "parallel structures."
Daily demonstrations indicate that Aristide's 19-month-old government has never been more fragile.
On the day of the OAS council vote, Haitian police killed about 40 goats and a half-dozen cows belonging to peasants...
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