Five to ten thousand supporters wait to greet Aristide outside his house. -- Photo: Ansel Herz
HLLN is most grateful to Walker, Katz and France 24 for being the first foreign news outlets to videotape the U.N. soldiers who brought cholera to Haiti. They were the first whose work forced powerful forces to acknowledge and believe the accusations made by the people of Mirebalais and who went there to film the Nepalese base oozing its cholera-stained feces into Haiti's waterways.
The Al Jazeera and Democracy Now! videos also tell the story you won't read in the mainstream. They show the reason why President Aristide is beloved by the poor majority in Haiti. He's not AFRAID of his own people. He knows who they are, their hearts of hearts.
They would not scale the walls of the National Palace or of any of the current presidential candidates' residences to hear them speak. No. Only for Aristide. The day of the return, 5,000 to 10,000 Haitians scaled the walls of Aristide's residence, while tens of thousands more gathered around outside, yearning to see and hear him speak to them and for them to the world as he did at the airport.
When Aristide did not come out, they eventually quietly left. This is the reality the U.S., U.N., France, Canada, Bill and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama did not want you to see: the discipline and peacefulness of the people of Haiti when they are not being attacked and forced to defend themselves by the coup d'etat enforcers and their U.N./U.S. tanks and guns.
We post these videos of the return for the mainstream media mentioned herein, for the New York Times especially, which wrote during the bicentennial that Aristide could command only a "small crowd." Explain, New York Times, how seven years later this scene could happen?
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Haiti's Dream DeferredIn the video below, a young Haitian talks to the Haitian Diaspora about doing more and to Barack Obama and the US population about the U.S.'s imperial and fascist policy in Haiti. He explains why these March 20, 2011 US-supported Duvalierist's elections in Haiti, without the participation of twice exiled president Jean Bertrand Aristide's political party, the largest political party in Haiti, are illegitimate, illegal and a sham. The elections are illegal, took place despite the fact that the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) never voted to authorize a second round.
Haiti 2011 presidential election"This was an election hi-jacked from the Haitian people before it even started. The illegal exclusion of the most popular political party in Haiti, the Fanmi Lavalas party, made the results null and void before the first ballot was cast"Lavalas, meaning "the flood" is the creation of former president Jean Bertrand Aristide. Lavalas was the fat elephant in every polling station. It was muffled but won't go away despite every wicked attempt. It's like a wound treated with garbage and bandaged over. It will pus over and the condition will be worst than before. Recently released Wikileaks US cables corroborates America's obsession with violating the Haitian people's right to choose their leader and ultimately their destiny"
But the (s)"election" so far, has been decreed (by the US, UN and the internationals) a success. The people wait for the announcement of who will be the next to speak and to shuffle in the hands of the puppeteers""
by Langston Hughes
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
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