May to September 1994 · Haitianspan
The Security Council authorises an invasion and Cedras will not go
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Resolution 917 passed at the United Nations at the beginning of May 1994. William Gray then visited President Balaguer, who had just won an irregular re-election in the Dominican Republic and was accordingly open to persuasion, and the border trade that had kept Haiti supplied was shut down. On 10 June the United States banned money transfers to Haiti above fifty dollars a month and all commercial flights; with Canada joining, that closed three quarters of the air traffic. The officers installed the octogenarian Emile Jonassaint as president and had him declare a state of emergency against invasion. Aristide hesitated in public over endorsing force, asking in early June for a surgical strike on the Panama model and telling National Public Radio at the end of the month that he would never let himself be returned by arms. On 11 July the regime expelled 104 United Nations human rights monitors. Resolution 940 authorising intervention passed on 29 July. Cedras told ABC that he was the pin in Haiti's grenade.
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