27856: Simidor (comment) Re: 27425: Aristide & the Endless Revolution Screenings (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: daniel simidor <danielsimidor@yahoo.com>

Finally saw Nicolas Rossier?s ?Aristide and the
Endless Revolution,? and found it a mediocre and
partisan film that works best if you?ve already
accepted Aristide as Haiti?s Sole Savior and Leader.
This hagiographic film pits the sanctified Aristide
and a coterie of Haitian and international supporters,
against the villainous Roger Noriega of Jesse Helms
fame.  But it offers very little insight in terms of
the international contradictions that led to
Aristide?s downfall.  The filmmaker is indeed quite
cocky in his own ignorance of those contradictions,
dismissing any criticism of Aristide?s repressive and
corrupt regime as mainstream propaganda.  For that
matter, he seems oblivious to the real differences
between the 1991 coup against Aristide which gave rise
to passionate and massive opposition inside and
outside Haiti, and Aristide?s fall from power in 2004
in relative indifference at home and abroad.

This type of simplistic understanding is inevitably
what you get from a three-week crash course into any
subject matter and from ?going underground? with
Haiti-Progrès.  And now, with practiced opportunism,
Mr. Rossier and his Haiti-Progrès acolytes are trying
to convince themselves that the people?s vote in favor
of Rene Preval?s candidacy is actually a vote for
Aristide, hoping that no one will remember Lavalas?
(and Haiti-Progres?) campaign of intimidation and fear
to keep the people from taking part in the ?de facto
elections-selections.?  But as the saying goes, lies
have a shallow foundation.


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