The Wire

The United Nations has just voted unanimously to send an armed force of eight-thousand personnel to the Caribbean nation of Haiti, to restore order and plan for fresh elections. The multinational force will replace three and a half thousand U.S. troops who landed on the island in March, under controversial circumstances. While the Bush government says it had to intervene to end rioting and violence, the former President Jean Bertrand Aristide says he was forced out of office, not by a popular uprising, but by the United States. Mark Robinson spoke to Dr Barry Carr, Director of the Institute of Latin American studies at La Trobe University.