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Exorcising Haiti.
National Review
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April 25, 1986|
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EXORCISING HAITI
IT BEGAN the day my wife and I flew back to Haiti for our usual four months in Jacmel. A lovely hill town overlooking the Caribbean, Jacmel is renowned for its iron-balconied homes, its uninhibited Mardi Gras in the streets, its inventive artists; and for the gentleness and affectionate nature of its people. But few living in Jacmel were unaware of the banked fires of resentment that had been heating up there and all over Haiti.
True, the coals had taken a long time to burst into flame; the elder Duvalier had established his tyranny in ...
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Remarks announcing William H. Gray III as special adviser on Haiti and an exchange with reporters. (Bill Clinton speech) (Transcript)
Newspaper article from: Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
; ...speak for a few moments about the crisis in Haiti, the challenge it poses to our national...free and fair elections, the people of Haiti chose Jean-Bertrand Aristide as their President...months later, their hopes were dashed when Haiti's military leaders overthrew democracy...
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The white curse.(Eduardo Galeano's View from the South)(Haiti's history )
Magazine article from: New Internationalist
; ...the country where this birth occurred, Haiti, found itself in the media spotlight. Not...President Aristide. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Haiti was the first country to abolish slavery...There is nothing new about this slight of Haiti. For two centuries it has suffered scorn...
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Hope for Haiti? U.S. troops try to bring democracy to troubled nation.(includes chronology)
Magazine article from: Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
; PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The first soldiers arrived in the bright sunlit...To many people on the Caribbean island nation of Haiti, the arrival of U.S. soldiers last month to restore Haiti's elected president was a startling spectacle. Most...
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HAITI GETS HELP FROM VENEZUELA AND CUBA; PRESIDENT RENE PREVAL MUST TREAD LIGHTLY TO KEEP U.S. IN LINE.
Newspaper article from: NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs
; The Western Hemisphere's poorest country, Haiti, got a much-needed hand from its neighbors...aid is destined for the most essential of Haiti's needs--health, education, economy, and...of this strategy is the incorporation of Haiti into ALBA [Alternativa Bolivariana para...
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HAITI'S NEW GOVT. FACES PROBLEMS.(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: Caribbean Update
; Haiti, the poorest nation in the Americas, hobbles toward the February...national election boycotted by the opposition and shunned by Haiti's traditional international allies because of tainted parliamentary...despotism and oppressive military rule, have expressed fear that Haiti's refusal to reconsider the ...
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Order in the court: judicial stability and democratic success in Haiti.
Magazine article from: Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
; ABSTRACT Haiti faces many challenges in its attempt to...decades, and the success of democracy in Haiti is both hoped for and doubted by Haitians...Bertrand-Aristide were particularly unique in Haiti's history. In order for Haiti to implement...
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Dancing in Haiti: come for the beaches, the culture and art.(ESSAY)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter
; ...Our delegation, organized by Haiti KONPAY, which supports grass-roo...visitors. Few Americans visit Haiti. Those who do come to document...or outrage at the fate of Haiti's people. But Didier Civil...de Formation Artistique de Jacmel, the cooperative my group...vibrant art. Don't come to ...
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Policy confronts reality: was the resolution of the Haiti crisis a victory for democracy or just for common sense? (return of civilian rule to Haiti)
Magazine article from: National Review
; HAITI is such a small and poor land that policy-makers can perhaps...The official American version goes something like this: Haiti had a free election in 1990 and the winner was Jean-Bertrand Aristide. He was governing Haiti under very difficult circumstances-new experiment with democracy...
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 "Américas (Spanish Edition)")
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Refugio de arte y esperanza en Haití.(movimiento artístico, galerías y museos en la ciudad de Jacmel)
Magazine article from: Américas (Spanish Edition)
; ...pisos da a la playa, con vistas al muelle pesquero de Jacmel y el mar Caribe. Adentro, el espacio alberga diez estudios...visitantes. Boucard, de cuarenta y siete años y oriundo de Jacmel, creció en Haití y México, estudió arte en Inglaterra...francés y creole nativo. En su abigarrado estudio de Jacmel, ...
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Haiti in extremis.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century
; ...Jean-Bertrand Aristide may very well be Haiti's best hope. WHEN THE LAST remnants of...American for much of its duration--left Haiti a few weeks ago, some observers voiced...to restore to power in tyranny-ravaged Haiti its first democratically elected president...
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