![]() ![]() I thought, however, that I'd come too late – that I'd be studying the dynamics of blood politics in retrospect, as an exercise in historical inquiry. It was that tumultuous recent history that had drawn me in, and the suspicion I'd formed that Haiti might be the paradigm –perhaps "boiling point" would be a better term – for the ways in which global power and politics had played out in the latter half of the 20th century. ![]() "We are learning to live in the world again," as President Aristide said, reflecting on what might be called the miracle of his presidency, coming as it did after the corrupt, brutal reign of the Duvaliers from 1957 to 1986, and the string of military juntas that convulsed the country until Aristide's election in 1990. At the time, it seemed that Haiti was on the cusp of a new era. M y first visit to Haiti was in May 1991, four months into the initial term of Haiti's first democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |