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On my return to Haiti … by President Aristide

jean_ariside.jpgA profit-driven recovery plan, devised and carried out by outsiders, can not reconstruct my country

Jean-Bertrand Aristide
The Guardian, Saturday 5 February 2011 
 

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Support grassroots Haitians’ call for President Aristide return

See Selma James in UK Guardian (below), and the ad in the Miami Herald signed by over 200 people. Sign the on line petition. http://www.petitiononline.com/haitiwom/
petition-sign.html

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The Guardian, Friday 28 January 2011

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An Urgent Call: Return Former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to Haiti

We are honoured to publish this full-page ad that appeared on Sunday 23 January in the Miami Herald, echoing the call of Haiti ’s grassroots movement for the return of President Aristide.

Signed by over 200 people (as many as could fit in the space), it demands that the United States, the United Nations and the Haitian government stop blocking President Aristide’s return to the land of his birth.

Additional signatories below.

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False picture of foreign aid to Haiti, letter in the Guardian

Letters  The Guardian, Friday 19 November 2010

The UN forces came to police the 92% of Haitian voters who had elected President Aristide and protested about his overthrow by a US coup. They were never "heroes" – except to the elite "cocooned in luxury and indifference" who backed the coup (Heroes to zeros, 17 November 2010).

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