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Women of Haiti welcome Aristide

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The Guardian, Saturday 19 March 2011
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/19/women-haiti-welcome-aristide

Among the supporters welcoming President Aristide (Jean-Bertrand Aristide defies US by heading back to Haiti, 18 March) are thousands of women who claim his return to Haiti as a culmination of their determined seven-year struggle.

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UK Parliament motion for return of Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Parliament UK

Early day motion 1619

JEAN-BERTRAND ARISTIDE

Session: 2010-11
Date tabled: 16.03.2011

Primary sponsor: McDonnell, John

Sponsors: McDonnell, John

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Wikileaks & Haiti: What's Driving Washington's Obsession?

March 1, 2011
By BEN TERRALL

Haiti watchers in the U.S. repeatedly hear several questions from North Americans new to the island nation’s history: Why is Washington obsessed with containing any legitimate pro-democracy movement in the hemisphere’s poorest country? How is a nation state the size of Maryland with a mostly destitute population of 9 million a threat to the U.S.?

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Haiti needs the world's support

Noam Chomsky, Tariq Ali, Slavoj Žižek and others call on the US, France and Canada to keep out of Haiti's democratic process in an open letter to the Guardian

Noam Chomsky, Tariq Ali, Slavoj Žižek et al
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 2 March 2011 15.46 GMT

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