20962: Laleau: Re: 20940: Marassa question for Esser hoping to clarify (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: NLaleau@aol.com

"Grouping 2" gets some flack because it's not only Lolo Beaubrun, Chavannes,
etc., who have been calling for Titide to resign, but the "old elite", the old
FAdH, some former FRAPH,  Cannibals and their sort, etc. This has confounded
the issue in the eyes of people who don't live in Haiti. If you've been there,
you can differentiate who is who and how come the different oppositions all
appear to want the same thing. We don't see many (if any) postings from
Chavannes/MPP on the Corbett List, however, and only a few mentions of Lolo Beaubrun
and "Boukman Experyens", so their voices have not been as loudly or frequently
heard in the US and abroad as the voices of Pina, the Black Caucus, and
Kurzban, and it is not obvious how big a peasants or peoples' movement there is who
has wanted Aristide out.  It could appear at first glance that it's only a
few disaffected former friends and a lot of perpetual enemies that want him out.
--nancy laleau