HAITI'S PROPOSED ARMY

Date: 01-March-2012
From: News Center Publications
Subject: March Caribbean Memo-2012

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Haiti is being threatened by former soldiers wanting to reestablish the kind of power and control over this Caribbean nation when former Presidents Francois [Papa Doc] Duvalier and his son, Jean Claude Duvalier, served as presidents for life or dictators.

That’s what is being reported in the country’s French-language newspaper, Le Matin.

Newly elected President Michel Martelly has called for the building of an Army to deal with the challenge. Haiti currently has a Haitian National Police but no army.

The conflict comes at a critical moment. This nation is still recovering from a Jan. 12, 2010 quake that left as many as 300,000 dead.

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