The development of popular resistance in Aristide's first term
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- Grassroots Struggles Sweep Haiti
- From Haiti Info, 14 January 1995. Popular
frustration over US troops protecting the political order
that came into being under the period of Haitain army
rule.
- Grassroots Struggles Sweep Haiti
- Weekly News Update on the Americas, 22
January 1995. Press reports of mounting resentment of US
occupation of Haiti.
- Haitians Seek to Disarm Macoutes
- By Pat Chin, Workers World, 23 March 1995.
Frustrated by refusal of US forces to act, Haitians take
matters into their own hands.
- New Resistance to U.S. Occupation
- By Pat Chin, Workers World, 30 March
1995.
- Haitian government feels mass pressure:
Demand grows for higher wages, arrest of killers
- By Pat Chin, Workers World, 25 May 1995.
Popular discontent: public school teachers over education budget
and salaries due to neoliberal reforms; US protection of General
Raoul Cedras, who with FRAPH was responsible for a mass killing
at Raboteau; peasants who blame the government for their
hardships.
- International anti-IMF conference held in
Port-au-Prince
- This Week in Haiti, 7-13 June
1995. International Conference Against the IMF
(International Monetary Fund) and Neoliberalism, held from
May 25 to 28 at the state university.