Volume 40, Number 20 · December 2, 1993

The Fall of the Prophet

By Mark Danner
Aristide: An Autobiography
by Jean-Bertrand Aristide, with Christophe Wargny, translated by Linda M. Maloney

Orbis Books, 205 pp., $14.95

In the Parish of the Poor: Writings From Haiti
by Jean-Bertrand Aristide, translated and edited by Amy Wilentz

Orbis Books, 112 pp., $10.95 (paper)

Late on a breezy afternoon, Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the elected president of the Republic of Haiti, descended from his limousine on Capitol Hill and, accompanied by his entourage of Haitian aides and American lawyers, made his way slowly into the Capitol to meeting room S-116, where a group of senators and staff assistants awaited him. They were from the foreign relations committee and they were there to discuss strategy.



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