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New Fiction Press

THE STRINGER

Flash fiction

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Brett Alexander
Jul 08, 2024
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In September 1994, I traveled to Haiti to cover a threatened invasion by US armed forces. The invasion, code-named Operation Upload Democracy, would be called off after the Haitian military regime conceded to US demands, but tensions were high in the preceding days. 

Anxieties between the small Caribbean nation and the US escalated after a military junt…

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