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Tom Reeves a good source

Submitted April 23, 2004 - 1:28 pm by Benjamin Melançon
I don't know anything about the San Francisco Bay View, but the article you quote is nearly, if not exactly, the first third of an essay by the same author, Tom Reeves, published at Counterpunch.org on April 14: Haiti: American Learning Zone.  This longer version goes on to discuss the need for Haiti to be a learning zone for U.S. solidarity activists-- we need to learn more than U.S. imperialists.  The article also goes into very informative detail about the people he talked to, from both pro-Aristide groups and anti-Aristide 'left' groups that generally welcomed the coup.

Our co-publisher George Salzman (who helped found the Fund for Authentic Journalism) recommended the Reeves' article to me, saying Reeves writing seems well-balanced and he tends to trust what he reports.  (I am trying to write a coherent summary of Haiti since the coup, and asked Salzman's help in finding sources.)  Though I myself haven't read any of Reeves' other writing, in my reading of other news articles Reeves' article stands up as not contradicted, and stands out for its informativeness.)

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