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Getting Haiti Right This Time: The U.S. and the Coup »

Book cover image of Getting Haiti Right This Time: The U.S. and the Coup by Noam Chomsky

Authors: Noam Chomsky, Paul Farmer, Amy Goodman
ISBN-13: 9781567513196, ISBN-10: 1567513190
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Common Courage Press
Date Published: September 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Noam Chomsky

Paul Farmer is Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard medical School and Founding Director of Partners in Health. The subject of a just released biography by Tracy Kidder, Farmer is the author of The Uses of Haiti, Infections and Inequalities, and AIDS and Accusation. Greg Bates is Publisher at Common Courage Press. Amy Goodman is the controversial host of Democracy Now!

Book Synopsis

The U.S. has done it—again!

Table of Contents

Ch. 1The "noble phase" and "saintly glow" of US foreign policy1
Ch. 2What happened in Haiti? : where past is present11
Ch. 3US is encouraging a coup37
Ch. 4"Coup d'etat machine in motion"43
Ch. 5US is arming anti-Aristide paramilitaries47
Ch. 6Different coup, same paramilitary leaders59
Ch. 7From the palace69
Ch. 8"I was kidnapped. Tell the world it is a coup."97
Ch. 9Exclusive interview : president107
Ch. 10The full story of Aristide's kidnapping119
Ch. 11Aristide returns to the Caribbean131
Ch. 12Pressuring Jamaica141
Ch. 13Defying Washington : Aristide arrives in Jamaica145
Ch. 14Aristide's bodyguard describe the US role in his ouster151
Ch. 15US warns Aristide : stay out of hemisphere157
Ch. 16President Aristide in his own words : part 1165
Ch. 17President Aristide in his own words : part 2171

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