[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 142 (Tuesday, October 4, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: October 4, 1994]
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                     IS ARISTIDE ANOTHER DRUG LORD?

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, the Drug Enforcement Administration says 
that informants deemed to be reliable tell them that Jean-Bertrand 
Aristide of Haiti took bushels of cash from Pablo Escobar, now 
assassinated drug cartel king, in exchange for providing a pipeline for 
cocaine directly to our streets in America.
  Aristide and Escobar. Escobar and Aristide.
  Are 20,000 troops in Haiti establishing democracy or are they helping 
to finance another drug cartel that rapes the streets of America? I do 
not know the truth, but No. 1, I say there should be a thorough 
investigation of these crimes on Aristide before we waste one life.
  By the way, a top Haitian leader fled the country and bought a home 
in Dominican Republic for half a million dollars. Now where did free 
enterprise hit Haiti that fast? Think about it.

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