12496: Re: 12494: This Week in Haiti 20:17 7/10/02 (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Lois E Wilcken <makandal-ny@juno.com>

A couple of years ago, I read Jacques Stephen Alexis' Les Arbres
Musiciens, set in the forties, when the U.S. appropriated the land of
Haitian peasants for the cultivation of rubber.  The novel leaves the
reader with images of peasants having nowhere to go, peasants killing
themselves rather than leave their ancestral homes, the local ougan lying
down in a field to die after having burned his temple...  The article
about the Trilateral Agreement brought it all back.

The Aristide government has made a major concession in its longstanding
struggle with global elites.  I understand that the pressure has to be
tremendous, and Aristide has already gone through one coup.  Does anyone
have any vision of what a government of Haiti might do against such odds?

Lois

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