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House on Fire: America’s Haitian Crisis
How can it be that America is on the verge of invading a country already burdened by catastrophe? What does it take to get killed here?
July 27, 1994
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Turmoil in Haiti
Turmoil in Haiti from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark Danner in conversation with Jocelyn
May 4, 1994
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America and the World: Haiti, its Military Dictators, and the Hope of Democracy
Mark Danner interviewed by Richard Hottelet, America and the World,
December 3, 1993
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The Fall of the Prophet
Late on a breezy afternoon, Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the elected president of the Republic of Haiti, descended from his limousine on Capitol Hill and, accompanied by his entourage of Haitian aides and American lawyers, made his way slowly into the Capitol to meeting room S-116, where a group of senators and staff assistants awaited him.
December 2, 1993
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The Prophet
On a sunny Columbus Day afternoon, Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide, president of the Republic of Haiti, walked slowly down the steps of the Georgetown house in which he has made his home for much of the last two years, and faced a restless crowd of reporters and photographers.
November 18, 1993
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Haiti on the Verge
On a sweltering morning in Port-au-Prince, in July of 1915, a party of gentlemen attired in black morning coats, striped pants, and bowler hats strolled past the wrought-iron gates and around the courtyard of the elegant mansion that housed the French legation and pushed through a side door.
November 4, 1993
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The Price in Haiti
Americans are so devoted to democracy and so respectful of its central ritual that we tend to confuse the one with the other. Call it the Election Day Myth.
October 25, 1993
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Postcards from History
Rarely has the portal, the moment of passage from ordinary to revolutionary time, been so well captured in a single image: At the wheel of the gray BMW sits the young dictator, well-dressed, prosperous, slightly overweight, his face impassive, his shoulders thrown back; he has spent all but five of his thirty-four years in the Palace, fifteen of them as President-for-Life, having been inaugurated, at his dying father’s insistence, as a mountainously obese, glassy-eyed teenager.
January 19, 1992
New Yorker Comment: Two weeks ago, when Haitian soldiers deposed their country’s President…
Two weeks ago, when Haitian soldiers deposed their country’s President, jean-Bertrand Aristide, the United States reacted quickly and forcefully, cutting off foreign aid and freezing Haiti’s assets in this country.
October 21, 1991
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To Haiti, With Love and Squalor
Driving south in Haiti one day in the spring of 1986, I passed a great 18-wheeled tractor-trailer speeding north, heard a volley of automatic weapons fire, and, craning my neck to look back, witnessed an absurd and amazing tableau…
August 11, 1991
New Yorker Comment: Just past ten on a sunny morning last month in Port-au-Prince…
Just past ten on a sunny morning last month in Port-au-Prince, four men carrying automatic weapons, two of whom wore the green uniforms of the Haitian Army, strolled into the garden of the Hotel Santos, where Haiti’s Council of State was meeting with union and business leaders, and asked for Dr. Louis Roy.
July 16, 1990
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Beyond the Mountains (Part III)
On February 7,1986, the day the dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier and his wife, Michèle Bennett, flew off to exile in France, a crowd of jubilant Haitians invaded the National Cemetery, a vast expanse of concrete crammed with bright-colored tombs — ivory and turquoise and rose — bearing the names of Haiti’s great families.
December 11, 1989