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Threatening Jamaica and much of the Caribean

Submitted March 19, 2004 - 8:21 pm by Andrew Grice (not verified)

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/nation/8
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Miami Herald reports of White House officials "fuming over Jamaica's red-carpet welcome to Aristide."  
''I think you are going to see a cooling of relations,'' a well-placed U.S. official said. ``Their actions on Haiti, and their willingness to believe a pathological liar like Aristide over the verifiable facts of his departure, have damaged U.S.-CARICOM relations a great deal.''
"Asked whether the United States will take any concrete measures against Jamaica, U.S. officials say the Bush Administration will not cut aid to fight AIDS in the region or reduce other kinds of humanitarian assistance. But they hint that other nonhumanitarian bilateral programs could be slowed down.
''We are reviewing the relationship to see what is the appropriate reaction,'' said one of the officials, who asked for anonymity."
Jamaica has had some experience with what can happen when the United States hates its government.  During the first government of Michael Manley in the 1970s (same party as today's P.J. Patterson), Jamaica was subject to an extremely disruptive destabilization campaign because the United States preferred other policies.  (William Blum's excellent compendium "Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II" has a good chapter on this history.)

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