Getting to know the general. (Haitian military leader General Raoul Cedras)

National Review | November 29, 1993| | Copyright

GENERAL Raoul Cedras sat serenely at the colonial headquarters of the Haitian army. From the rickety balcony of his office he could see the American gunbeats, deployed for the umpteenth time this century in hostile action against his country. Below him, in the sink of Port-au-Prince, he could also see the empty streets, the closed factories, the total breakdown of economic activity in what is already the poorest country in the hemisphere. None of it persuaded him that the time had come to give up power.

Indeed, as the UN deadline for the restoration of President Jean ...

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