and from the land of the "other" interim government...

http://www.haitiprogres.com/eng06-23.html

from haiti progres.com whose subtitle i loosely translate in my less than infantine french as , "the journal that offers an alternative" , we ran across this article :

Giant Demonstration Rocks Capital

Some 15,000 opponents of the Feb. 29th coup d’état in Haiti marched through the streets of Port-au-Prince on Friday, June 18 to demand the removal of Haiti’s de facto authorities and foreign military forces, and the return to power of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

It was one of the largest demonstrations since the February coup but was not marred by any serious violence, like that of May 18 (see Haïti Progrès, Vol. 22, No. 10, 5/19/2004). Demonstrators denounced the campaign of arbitrary arrests, harassment and persecution against members of Aristide’s Lavalas Family party by the de facto government in concert with occupation forces.

Stepping off at about 10:30 a.m. from the Church of Perpetual Help in Bélair, the demonstration flooded through much of the capital including Delmas 2, Solino, Sans Fil, Fort National, and Montalais, Capois and Lalue streets. It ended up passing near the National Palace on its return to Bélair, the departure point. “We demand that the North American president George W. Bush roll back the coup d’état he carried out against our president Aristide,” demonstrators said. “Whether they like it or not, Aristide will return to the country to serve out the mandate we gave him on Nov. 26, 2000.”Demonstrators denounced de facto Prime Minister Gérard Latortue as illegitimate and said it was absurd that certain Lavalas Family leaders were negotiating with him to take part in the Provisional Electoral Council while there continues foreign military occupation, illegal arrests, political witch hunts, and mass firings of Lavalas partisans from state posts. On May 31, about 1000 people were fired from Teleco – the state phone company – and the National Palace.

The masses of the Lavalas base who marched on June 18 taxed the Lavalas Family leaders wheeling and dealing with the coup government as opportunists. They emphasized their refusal to participate in any illegal and fraudulent elections organized by a coup government.

The demonstrators also denounced the brutal and illegal May 10 arrest of Annette “Sò Ann” Auguste, who remains imprisoned (see Haïti Progrès, Vol. 22, No. 9, 5/12/2004).

...interesting to note that one tenent commonly forced on nations seeking imf/world bank assistance is that state owned 'monopolies' in telecommunications , energy ,financial services and water treatment be dissolved and these 'markets' opened up to foreign investment .

As i tried to tell a rather bright and well educated , but equally ' zany ' internet personality and resident of a caribbean nation , the resulting effect is that when someone makes a phone call , or accesses the internet , turns on an electric light , makes a banking transaction , or drinks a glass of clean water , money leaves the developing world and goes to the pockets of the developed world . all i got in return from the guy was invectives and insults...none so blind as those who will not see...