Second, as an example of government discourse concerning the Haitian aid program, this document's discussion of Haitian organizations in "chaos" after 2004 omits any knowledge of the coup or
precoup dynamics.
The rate of our population growth has surpassed that of the
precoup period....
(129) Sirriyah initiated a
precoup attack in 1974 in Egypt as the first step toward overthrowing the country's secular regime under former President Anwar el-Sadat.
With no explicit social movement, the process in the
precoup period was limited to politicians and bureaucrats.
There has been no thorough public exploration in Washington of the
precoup contacts or the efforts of Bush officials to nudge the coup in a direction that would permit the Administration to openly support the takeover.
Though the political configuration and the institutional structures based on a democratic system can be traced to the colonial rule in the
precoup period, the postcoup political structures have a nondemocratic design.
In response, the dollar quickly fell back below its
precoup levels.
As a consequence, leftist political and labor leaders are now willing to settle for far less than their
precoup programs, while workers have lowered their sights to securing a steady job and a living wage.