One day they walked him to an unmarked plane and overthrew him and flew him to the Central African Republic. They literally did it. And then I got this unbelievable glimpse into how this works when horrified I called the New York Times reporter on the beat of Haiti and said to her, report this, come on, it's broad daylight. She said to me, this is a friend, oh no, my editor is not interested in this. Excuse me, your editor is not interested in an American led coup in broad daylight. And that's how it went down. Now, that's just little Haiti, but that's how it went down. And I've seen lots of this over the years, not in a systematic way. No one's sharing this information with me. I'm an economist. I'm dealing with budgets and taxes and exchange rates, but you hear a lot because I'm dealing with heads of state and I'm dealing with foreign ministers and I'm dealing with economy ministers and so on. And we're meddling up and down the wazoo and it's extremely dangerous. And the track record (33/45)
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