corporate interests fast forward to nine hundred ninety when john bircher bertrand aristide became the first democratically elected leader of haiti but instead of supporting haiti's first democracy the u.s. immediately acted to undermine it what a shock during the bush administration and dearest good leaders were appointed to key diplomatic positions infrastructure initiatives were terminated the haitian national police was deterred because of the weapons and bargo and at the same time a little think tank in washington d.c. called the international republican institute or the i r i was hard at work in haiti with a three million dollar budget to quote promote democracy there it began to unite areas steeds political opponents opponents that would eventually overthrow his government and it's more than a coincidence that these same opponents were trained at the school. america is a school notorious for educating some the most ruthless dictators in the world all of which heightened haiti's political crisis now keep in mind the ira is the same organization that also tried to back a coup agai

hour here when aristide was first elected when he came back so we are seeing different governments in haiti they have a brand to get difficult time so i think we should give the government haiti some breathing room and you know all the support we can even though there may be some. ways. money i think this is the best place to invest it even if half of it gets spent wisely but there's more to this story than just aid and political instability a catastrophe on a nationwide scale that isn't the result of a natural disaster or corrupt government policies a manmade epidemic cholera a deadly water borne bacteria although the u.n. denies responsibility for the outbreak overwhelming evidence points to a team of u.n. troops from southeast asia who brought cholera to haiti two years ago by dumping human waste into a channel of the country's main water supply since then there have been over eight thousand deaths and over six hundred thousand infected by a disease that had never existed in haiti before. were unhappy with the spread of cholera the public health has shown us how to clean the water