Volume 40, Number 19 · November 18, 1993
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)
On a sunny Columbus Day afternoon, Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide, president of the Republic of Haiti, walked slowly down the steps of the Georgetown house in which he has made his home for much of the last two years, and faced a restless crowd of reporters and photographers. Even as he began to speak that October 12, the troopship USS Harlan County, which had arrived in the bay of Port-au-Prince the day before on a mission to land two hundred American 'combat engineers and trainers' in Haiti, was beating an ignominious retreat. Onshore the 'armed thugs' whose threats had prevented the troops' landing were dancing and celebrating in the streets. Yet another agreement to return President Aristide to Haiti's National Palace seemed near collapse.
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