Aló Presidente

" …But beyond Venezuela, I am thinking about the integration of this Afro-America scattered all over these lands, all over these waters…I have brought this book about Haiti, a present from a friend from the Global Women’s Strike, which has come to me from London: Black Jacobins: Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution, by CLR James. How they’ve made Haiti pay for having been the first Black republic, an inspiration to the revolution in South America and the liberation of the slaves. There’s Haiti, living today what it has lived throughout these centuries. We have a debt to the Haitian people and to the Black peoples of the Caribbean and of South America…”  8 May 05