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02/17/2006:

"US troop deployment sparks protests in Dominican Republic"

The landing of hundreds of US troops at a port city in the Dominican Republic, barely 80 miles from the Haitian border, sparked protests and warnings that Washington may be preparing another military intervention aimed at quelling the popular unrest that has erupted in Haiti over attempts to rig the presidential election.

Some 800 US troops have disembarked at the Dominican port of Barahona as part of the “New Horizons” military exercise that is to extend for several months and will reportedly involve as many as 14,000 military personnel. The city is the closest major port in the Dominican Republic to the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince.

Hundreds of demonstrators marched on the US Embassy in Santo Domingo as well as on the US military camp in Barahona, approximately 120 miles southwest of the capital.
wsws.org


Haitian Front-Runner [President] Breaks Silence; Charges Fraud
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Feb. 14 — René Préval, whose support among the poor masses has made him the favorite to become Haiti's next president, stepped out of the silence he began after the election last week to charge Tuesday that "massive fraud and gross errors had stained the process."