Also. exempting food and medicine has not saved the Haitian people from nearstarvation and an almost complete shutdown of Haitis rudimentary health care system. On October 21. the Washington Post. in a frontpage story. reported that even Aristides staunchest supporters now resent the economic sanctions which are making life progressively more difficult. I am afraid that if the United States and the United Nations continue their present policy of sanctions. the likely result will be thousands of deaths from starvation and disease in Haiti. coupled with additional thousands of refugees teeming to United States shores in creaky boats. hoping to escape their nations growing misery. Certainly. the United States has an interest in political events in Haiti. but a series of crippling economic sanctions are not going to turn hardened military leaders away from their tyranny. Poverty and dictatorship usually go hand in hand.
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