When the Bush administration pushed for the
ouster of Haiti's democratically elected president earlier this year,
one of its main complaints was his reliance on armed political gangs to
sustain his rule. Now the new government that Washington helped install
in Jean-Bertrand Aristide's place has permitted a scandalous judicial
exoneration of one of Haiti's most notorious political gangsters,
Louis-Jodel Chamblain. Chamblain just happens to have been a leading
force in the February rebellion that helped force Aristide from office.
Chamblain's violent history goes back more than a decade. Under the
military government of the early 1990s, he was one of the leaders of a
death squad that is alleged to have murdered thousands of people. [more ]
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