Haiti and America
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America's Intervention in Haiti
The news media these days is so strong that it can present the news in anyway it wants. It presents the news in such a make-believe way that a person can easily be distracted. They can make the truth disappear. On the sixteenth of March, 2004, The New York Times published an article from the Associated Press in which it gave a view of the situation that was aroused by the arrival of former President of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Jamaica. Aristide claimed that he was forced to resign on gunpoint by the authorized American troops. But US officials said that they took this action on his request. After his removal, US elected an interim head of Haiti, Gerard Latortue.
Aristide first came into power in 1990 and again in 2000, however, those elections were said to be flawed. He is a Christian Socialist, and is considered to be the champion of the poor. He introduced many programs that benefited the poor...