Getting Haiti Right This Time : The U.S. and the Coup (Read and Reist)

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Summary: the information you really need to know
Review: This book deals with the recent details of the perils or the crisis that have happened in this former slave island. The first democratically elected president Jean aristide has been kidnapped by US military ,and the nation has been handed over death squad paramilitary and drug trader;guy philies, chamblain,and US ciizen andy apaid. It simply says her sad history due to French and US military intervention, and also sad current situation that the first democratically elected(with 94 percent support),and more importantly, the rarest leader who cares about the interest of poor general population has been abducted and forced to leave the country due to US intervention. Most of the book was the interviews by DEMOCRACYNOW with journalists amy goodman, but the book begins with Chomsky's article(which made me buy the book) and paul farmer's description of the modern history of haiti.

I read every days LA and NY times,and had only vague idea about this island until this book. The book kept suprising me too much for me to stop reading. It shows grim current situation and future of the nation, and the clear violation of Human right and internation regulation by US contras.

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Summary: Not too informative
Review: I also got the book mainly b/c Noam Chomsky is a co-author. He's only written the introduction though, which doesn't contain many hard facts. The second chapter by Farmer is interesting, but doesn't develop enough to get all aspects of the picture, such as what's behind the corruption allegations against Aristide.

All other chapters are interviews from the daily TV show "Democracy Now!". As the show itself, these interviews suffer from one-sidedness. The only people appearing in the talks are pro-Aristide, and show host Amy Goodman doesn't seem at all interested in asking tough questions to Aristide.

This is what I'm always noticing when I watch her show. While she does a good job in gathering interesting information that is deliberately or inadvertently ignored by the main-stream media, her guests are typically biased and you hardly ever have people in her show disagreeing with each other.