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Sachs: UN Should Reinstall Aristide

Submitted March 1, 2004 - 3:50 pm by Al Giordano
Jeffrey Sachs, a Bolivian scholar at Columbia University, who often backs Washington in its initiatives in Latin America, says the Bush administration has gone too far this time with the removal of Haiti's elected president:

What should happen now is unlikely to pass. The United Nations should help restore Mr Aristide to power for his remaining two years in office, making clear that yesterday's events were an illegal power grab. Second, the US should call on the opposition, which is largely a US construct, to stop the violence immediately and unconditionally. Third, after years of literally starving the people of Haiti, the long-promised and long-frozen aid flows of Dollars 500m should start immediately. These steps would rescue a dying democracy and avert a possible bloodbath.

Sachs' position is a possible bellweather of what "moderate" OAS states may soon be saying, too.

He makes a compelling argument. Read all of it.

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