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An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, from Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President Copertina rigida – 1 luglio 2007
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- Lunghezza stampa288 pagine
- LinguaInglese
- EditoreBasic Civitas Books
- Data di pubblicazione1 luglio 2007
- Dimensioni15.24 x 2.54 x 24.13 cm
- ISBN-100465070507
- ISBN-13978-0465070503
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Randall Robinson is founder and past president of TransAfrica, the African-American organization he established to promote enlightened, constructive U.S. policies toward Africa and the Caribbean.
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- Editore : Basic Civitas Books (1 luglio 2007)
- Lingua : Inglese
- Copertina rigida : 288 pagine
- ISBN-10 : 0465070507
- ISBN-13 : 978-0465070503
- Peso articolo : 612 g
- Dimensioni : 15.24 x 2.54 x 24.13 cm
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Well written account!!!


The theme of this book is starkly presented and aggressively argued: that Aristide, Haiti's only president democratically elected by the common people, was kidnapped by the United States on behalf of the mulatto elite, and spirited away to exile in Africa, thus ensuring continuation of an unjust social order that has prevailed in Haiti for generations.
Of course, Aristide's critics argue that the former priest fell into the corrupt ways of most of his predecessors. His supporters will say that the US could not countenance the surging popularity of a president whose genuine interests lay with the poor and oppressed.
What makes this book disturbing is that its arguments are convincing, and that a dispassionate reader might well be left thinking that America's continued interference in Haitian affairs is more to do with commercial self-interest than anything akin to altruism.
As recent troubles demonstrate, the agony of Haiti's poor seems never to end, and the country's social, political and economic woes seem to intensify by the day.
Left to its own devices, Haiti would almost certainly be just as big a disaster area as it is today, a country ravaged by natural calamities and corrupt politicians.But it's perhaps time it was left alone. Certainly, there is nothing to suggest that American interference has made things better.
Aristide was viewed by many as Haiti's last chance. But he isn't there anymore.


I also found it disturbing in two ways: First, I was troubled by the strong anti-US and anti-France approach. I was troubled by his strong emotions. Second, it disturbed me to realize that his anger at the US and France for kidnapping Aristide may be justified. The difficulty I had was in determining whether what he said was based on fact or emotion. I was forced to decide that while the account is very emotional and therefore likely to be slanted, it is also probably accurate.
The author was an eye witness in the Central African Republic and he did hear from those who talked with the President of that country about Aristide and his house arrest.
I had to conclude that the US and France were culpable of kidnapping a president of a sovereign nation because he posed some kind of a threat to the US? To France? Or was the threat to the elite of Haiti who didn't like his attempted reforms of a very corrupt society and government?