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Monday, June 25, 2007
CIA INFILTRATION OF PACIFICA, PT. 5: BRING ON THE MISSION - An Aristide
Demonizer w/Ties to Roger Noriega Pretends to be a Aristide SUPPORTER on KPFK
By Alex Constantine
A public radio fraud - how information on the Haiti invasion was "handled" by
Ian Masters at KPFK:
Dr. Robert Maguire, a spokesman for the Inter-American Foundation, smeared
Aristide in the press before the coup. But on Masters' "Background Briefing,"
March 7, 2004, after the coup, Dr. Maguire adopted a progressive perspective
thinned for consumption by Masters' progressive listening audience - an
unexplained role reversal.
Bring on the Mission - Dr. Robert Maguire Demonized Aristide in the American
Press Before the Coup ...
Dr. Robert Maguire, Ian Masters' guest on "Background Briefing", representative
to Haiti for the Inter-American Foundation (IAF), told the press prior to the
invasion that Aristide was "intoxicated with power."
On the IAF Board, count Assistant Secretary of State ROGER NORIEGA, oil company
executives & an assortment of corporate predators...
Erroneous planted press reports BEFORE the invasion portrayed a tainted,
power-hungry Aristide rigging elections in Haiti - largely, per Dr. Maguire,
who reversed his position AFTER the CIA-backed coup for his tepid interview on
anti-war KPFK.
These and other horrific acts, the IAF's respected Haiti "expert" claimed in
the press, had come back to haunt Aristide. But POST-invasion, on KPFK, Dr.
Maguire adopted the polar opposite position and commisserated with the exiled
leader for the benefit of Ian Masters' progressive audience.
Dr. Maguire's original, pre-war position on Aristide:
Haiti Options are Few and Disturbing
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/text/2001867857_haitilook29.html
By Christopher Marquis
New York Times
February 29, 2004
... Aristide became intoxicated with power, believes ROBERT MAGUIRE, an expert
on Haiti and a professor at Trinity College in Washington.
"He feels he doesn't have to play the traditional Haitian political game,"
Maguire said. "It's like he says, 'I'm king of the world.' That's the way he
has governed. He has alienated many, many people."
MacGuire depicted Aristide as a corrupt autocrat again on February 14, 2004:
Analysis: Haiti's man
of the people lost his way
By AMY WILENTZ
(New York Times News Service):
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/2403188
... Without a force of order to fall back on, it has been impossible for
Aristide to carry out any social agenda, and for a long time now he has not
seemed to have the inclination or the budget to try.
The most flagrant example of his disregard for institutions came in 2000, when
he allowed irregularities in an election that gave him a clear legislative
majority. The United States responded by stopping all funds, says ROBERT
MAGUIRE, director of the international affairs program at Trinity College in
Washington and a longtime Haiti observer. "This became a resource-starved
government very quickly," Maguire said, "Aristide could not deliver on any of
his big promises about education and health care and so forth, and he couldn't
even really do street patronage."
In other words, Aristide in some way stopped being a big man, even though he
was the president, because he could not deliver the goods.
What is happening now is not simply the result of Aristide's leadership style.
"This is happening because of irrefutable Haitian truths," Maguire said. "The
country is deeply polarized between the included and the excluded, the elite
rich and the poor masses, between the urban dweller and the rural villager.
Aristide represented something unique and important. He rose to power as
someone who was not part of the political class and not put in by the army. His
support came solely from the Haitian people."
It turns out, however, that the Haitian people have a limited supply of
patience
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Dr. Maguire Biography, from the Trinity College Web Site:
http://www.trinitydc.edu/academics/depts/Interdisc/International/Bob.htm
Bob joined the staff of Trinity College following a career in federal
government service as a specialist in Latin America and the Caribbean,
grassroots development, and political economy. His government service included
stints with the Inter-American Foundation ... Dr. Maguire is best known for his
work on Haiti, having been involved with that country since the mid 1970's
through affiliations with the Inter-American Foundation, the Department of
State, and Johns Hopkins, Brown and Georgetown Universities
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The purpose of the IAF, according to its Mission Statement:
* Strengthen the bonds of friendship and understanding among the peoples of
this hemisphere.
* Support self-help efforts designed to enlarge the opportunities for
individual development.
* Stimulate and assist effective and
