Haiti’s interim prime minister was ousted last week by the Transitional Council—the government “oversight mechanism” that the US, Canada and various factions of the country’s bourgeois elite put together earlier this year to provide a fig leaf of “popular” legitimacy for the latest imperialist-sponsored military intervention in the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country.

The Transitional Presidential Council in Haiti has ousted Prime Minister Garry Conille, appointing Didier Fils-Aimé amid questions about the legality of the move, escalating the political tensions gripping the country.

Haiti's ruling transitional council has fired Prime Minister Garry Conille, six months after the doctor and former UNICEF Latin America head was appointed to lead the troubled nation.

After Haiti freed itself from slavery and declared independence in 1804, it paid France a "debt" for lost property -