- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Haitian
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- Nov 07, 2020
To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence.
- Frustration
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's whatever news topic, whatever political process any country is going through - whenever they are in the news, that's when they exist. If you don't see them they don't exist.
- Said
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I don't think that's limited to Haiti.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Or even the state of Florida, where they are prepared to execute children. Umm, well, you hope that at least that there is something there to be claimed.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary ways, sometimes. What happened recently in Spain affects us here and brings questions up. It is too bad that people have to be shaken up in that way.
- Chunk
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- Nov 07, 2020
Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of.
- United
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when It's at its extreme. And that's what they end up knowing about it.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to grasp what is happening and I am still trying to understand and to reach family back home.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020