24231: Philippe: Re: 24163: Joseph (request) needs some advice. (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: philippe@gcal.net
>
> From: Figaro Joseph <figarojoseph@hotmail.com>
>
> Dear Friends,
>
> I am researching for a master’s thesis on the popular movement that led to
> the fall of Jean-Claude Duvalier in 1986.
> I am focusing on the period of 1985-1991.  After the departure of Duvalier,
> the movement continued to lead efforts for
> political, economic, and social change in Haiti.  I am approaching this
> thesis with the hypothesis that the movement
> failed.  The movement failed because it focused too much on elections and not

What is your hypothesis about the objectives of the movement? It seems to me
that if the goal of this movement was to win the post Duvalier elections, then
it was quite a success, wasn't it!

Philippe