Here's what Ira Kurzban, Miami-based lawyer and General Counsel for the government of Haiti Since 1991, believes is the reason "Why."

Ira Kurzban
"It has nothing really to do with Aristide. This is a military operation designed to bring back the Haitian army. And I think that the [US] Defenses Intelligence Agency has always wanted to push to have the army reconstituted."

"to be perfectly clear, Amy, I believe that this is a group that is armed by, trained by, and employed by the intelligence services of the United States. I think that the congress really needs to take a very careful look at this now."

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Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, argues that Aristide has resisted IMF economic "structural adjustments." That is, Aristide's resistance of the neoliberal economic "free market" model, which opens his country to corporate exploitation, is another potential reason he is being targeted.

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