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https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1994/07/21/last-hope-for-haiti/8d04ad64-e8ac-45a1-8862-c70966ed3224/

 

LAST HOPE FOR HAITI

By Robert D. Novak

July 21, 1994

Rep. Bill Richardson, making an eleventh hour bid to prevent the tragedy of Haiti from becoming a fiasco, visited Port-au-Prince this week to find intransigence not among the reviled military high command but in the U.S. Embassy.

 

Richardson engaged in the first serious conversation with Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras by an American official in a year. He left with a flicker of optimism that an invasion might yet be averted. Yet the official voice of the U.S. government there misrepresented his mission as a bellicose threat to the Haitian military to leave or suffer the consequences.

 

This was no errant congressional junket. Though disdained by Washington policy makers, Richardson represents the last hope for Haiti: the departure of Cedras and a brief restoration of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. But to achieve this, there would have to be tight restrictions on Aristide and guarantees against the terror that marked his seven months in power. 537526273 Richardson has neither diplomatic experience nor expertise in Haiti. He is a loyalist Democrat, the chief deputy majority whip of the House, a stalwart for North American Free Trade Agreement ratification and perhaps the next secretary of the interior.His mission to Haiti was made with President Clinton's knowledge and after a conference with Vice President Al Gore.