Reply #2: I remember the Reaganites screeching about Aristide, long before he had any power,

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back when he was still a parish priest. The real issue then was that he stood up for the poor, though the wingnut complaint was wrapped in the usual code language: he was called a communist; he was said to threaten Haiti's stability; and so on. He'd scarcely been elected when Bush the First engineered his departure; the same gang was back in control in the era of Bush the Second, and they physically dumped him off with the newly installed coup-government in the Central African Republic

There's no need to appeal to drug-politics: the ruling elite will always oppose anyone who offers "the threat of a good example" -- that's why the Reaganites opposed the Sandinistas and the FMLN and the ANC; it's why Zelaya was kicked out in Honduras; it never changes