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San Francisco: Haitian community denounces murderous coup regime
By Dave Welsh posted on March 12, 2021
San Francisco Waving Haitian flags, a crowd of 80 demonstrated March 1 to mark the anniversary of the bloody U.S.-backed coup d’etat in 2004 that overthrew the popular government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. The beloved former president was kidnapped and flown to Africa on a U.S. military plane, beginning a seven-year period of forced exile from Haiti.
Tacuma King on drums at San Francisco Haiti solidarity rally March 1. Credit: Bill Hackwell
Carrying hand-lettered signs, demonstrators protested the serial massacres in working-class neighborhoods in Haiti, the arbitrary arrests, detentions of human rights defenders and the wave of kidnappings for ransom connected to the current coup regime of the dictatorial Jovenel Moїse, backed by the U.S. government.