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12/14/2004:

"Haiti is not for sale"

About 400 of the Diaspora elite living in Canada, the U.S. and France accepted invitations to hobnob with puppet Haitian Prime Minister Gerard Latortue, recently appointed Canadian Special Adviser for Haiti Denis Coderre and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin.

On the other hand, the 75 protesters on Friday and 125 on Saturday who braved bone-chilling, snowy weather were uninterested in helping the Canadian government build support for Haiti's illegal regime. Conference attendees were denounced as occupation and coup d'etat collaborators. Angry protesters distributed pamphlets claiming that 7,000 people, mostly poor supporters of Aristide, have been killed over the past nine months.

Full Article : cmaq.net