Plunging Into Haiti: Clinton, Aristide, and the Defeat of DiplomacyFor much of the early 1990s, Haiti held the world's attention. A fiery populist priest, Jean Bertrand Aristide, was elected president and deposed a year later in a military coup. Soon thousands of desperately poor Haitians started to arrive in makeshift boats on the shores of Florida. In early 1993, the newly elected Clinton administration pledged to make the restoration of President Aristide one of the cornerstones of its foreign policy. But that fall the U.S. let supporters of Haiti's ruling military junta intimidate America into ordering the USS Harlan County and its cargo of UN peacekeeping troops to scotch plans and return to port. Less than a year later, for the first time in U.S. history, a deposed president of another country prevailed on the United States to use its military might to return him to office. These extraordinary events provide the backdrop for Plunging into Haiti: Clinton, Aristide, and the Defeat of Diplomacy mdash;Ralph Pezzullo's detailed account of the international diplomatic effort to resolve the political crisis. |
Contents
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CHAPTER 2 Welcome to Haiti | 16 |
CHAPTER 3 From Slavery to Independence | 28 |
CHAPTER 4 Working with the UN | 37 |
CHAPTER 5 Early USHaitian Relations | 52 |
CHAPTER 6 UN Sanctions | 60 |
CHAPTER 7 The First US Occupation | 77 |
CHAPTER 8 Governors Island | 86 |
CHAPTER 14 Steps toward Aristides Return | 181 |
CHAPTER 15 The Harlan County Incident | 195 |
CHAPTER 16 Dissension in Washington | 209 |
CHAPTER 17 The Resignation of Malval | 221 |
CHAPTER 18 The Parliamentarians Plan | 231 |
CHAPTER 19 President Clinton Changes Policy | 244 |
CHAPTER 20 CarterPowellNunn | 257 |
EPILOGUE History Repeats Itself | 271 |
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