19710: (Hermantin)Sun-Sentinel-Color's role (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: leonie hermantin <lhermantin@hotmail.com>

Color's role

Mark Scheinbaum
LAKE WORTH
Posted March 3 2004

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Absent from the excellent South Florida Sun-Sentinel coverage is editorial
page comment on the underlying theme. The quotes from Haitians in exile who
are housekeepers, cooks or hospital workers seem to bemoan the loss of
President Aristide from power. The quotes from the travel agents, Realtors,
shopkeepers and college-educated talk of new glowing opportunities.

Unfortunately, few people on either side know precisely where the crisp
"rebel" uniforms, new boots, pickup trucks and scarce gasoline have come
from. Few people know which, if any, Colombian drug lords saw an opportunity
to establish a police-free smuggling zone in northern Haiti.

The exiled entrepreneurs who returned in recent years seem to share the
politics of the longtime mulatto elite. Reading between the lines, true
reform for poor people, most of whom have darker skin tones, does not
necessarily dovetail with the goals of the loyal or not-so-loyal opposition.

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