OUR CARIBBEAN: ‘Fruitful’ chat with Powell?

[struggle4progress]

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A notable example would be his somsersault on a CARICOM initiative on the Haitian crisis while Aristide was still president. Having endorsed the initiative that included firm demands on both Aristide and the opposition forces, as well as sending a peace-keeping military force to Haiti, the United States administration, with Powell very much on board, walked away from it in favour of a plan that kept CARICOM in the dark right up to the sudden departure of Aristide from power on February 29 that coincided with a United States-led military force being rushed to Haiti.

Nor is Powell known to have helped in getting his boss to extend a “presidential national interest waiver” to CARICOM in relation to Article 98 of the ICC on extradition of United States nationals who may be wanted for prosecution.

Powell stood with President Bush when an ultimatum was issued on July 1, 2003, to six CARICOM states, among them Barbados, to sign on to Article 98 or be cut off from any United States military assistance.

Three of those six – Antigua and Barbuda, Belize and Dominica – have since been pressurised into jumping ship, while Barbados, St Vincent and the Grenadines and Trinidad and Tobago continued standing firm.
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http://www.nationnews.com/StoryView.cfm?Record=50539&Section=LO

Some folks in Barbados are grumpy with Colin ...

[AndyTiedye]

1. Good for Barbados!

They have refused to let the Bushbots push them around over this
and over Iraq.

[silverpatronus]

2. i'm from trinidad and tobago...

our prime minister is a jackass 85% of the time, but he has the support of most of the country on this. trinbagonians don't take well to being bullied.