The Star in Haiti: Aristide set for triumphant return

[bemildred]

Source: Toronto Star

PORT-AU-PRINCE—Twice-ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide is finally poised to touch down on his native soil Friday after seven years in exile.

Thousands of Haitians are expected to turn out to greet the diminutive priest and firebrand leftist still affectionately known as Ti Aristide by the country’s long-suffering poor.

“The great day has arrived,” Aristide said before embarking on a chartered plane outside Johannesburg, South Africa.

He will be coming with U.S. actor and activist Danny Glover in tow, and an aide said last night the former president will make a formal statement upon arrival, expected sometime before noon.

Read more: http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/955986--the-star-in-haiti-aristide-set-for-triumphant-return?bn=1

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:-)

[burrowowl]

1. K&R

[Citizen Worker]

2. If Aristide regains the presidency the US oligarchy won't stand for it and there will be yet another

coup. Or the US will demand an election that pits Aristide against the favored US candidate, Baby Doc Duvalier using Diebold voting machines to tabulate the results.

[crikkett]

3. Why won't the US oligarchy stand for a Prez Aristide?

Thanks

[Octafish]

4. Threatens their cash positions. Aristide wants to see the 1-percent who own 99-percent...

...use some of that 99-percent to help the 99-percent who own nearly nothing. Aristide told me himself, in answer to a question I posed him at the Cranbrook Peace Foundation.

President Obama phoned the president Zuma of South Africa and asked him not to let Aristide fly out of the country.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2011-03-17-aristide-haiti-return_N.htm

Not all that democratic, putting property ahead like that.

[bemildred]

5. Slave labor is hard to give up. nt