Friday, March 18, 2011

UH OH! HAITI’S EX-PRESIDENT ARRIVES HOME DESPITE U-S

(blackmediaSCOOP) The US kept asking him to stay away until the presidential elections were over but Jean-Bertrand Aristide rolled back into Haiti today after a 7-year exile. The former priest and twice-elected president arrived just ahead of a runoff to determine whether pop singer Michel Martelly or former first lady Mirlande Manigat will be the nation’s next president. Aristide left for South Africa in 2004 following an armed rebellion and US pressure. He says he wants no part of politics and is there to work on his education foundation.  But the US, including President Obama himself, is skeptical given the timing and pressed Aristide to delay out of fear he’d have a “destabilizing” effect on the election. It’s not clear exactly what effect that might be, but Aristide remains hugely popular with the nation’s poor. 
SOURCE: REUTERS


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