7 Years After Ouster in U.S.-Backed Coup, Former Haitian President Aristide Prepares to Return Home

Democracy Now! Special Report -
Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is preparing to return to Haiti after seven years in exile. Aristide has lived in South Africa since his ouster in a 2004 U.S.-backed coup. Reporting from Johannesburg, Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman speaks with Aristide's attorney Ira Kurzban and actor Danny Glover as they prepare to accompany Aristide back to his country.

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[rickbar123]

Power to Aristide- the true ruler of the Haitian people.

[oliwood82]

Guys get those documentaries because they are very interested: "massacre cite soleil" "Haiti the untold story" "Haiti we bend we will not brake" "Arsitide and the endless revolution" there is one more where they show everything Aristide did i forgot what it's called, but on the "massacre cite soleil" at the end they show the bueatiful villages he built and the nice apartment buildings, so check them out guys.

[ORDHA4YOU]

@rickbar123 Mr Aristide simply refused to feed the lions so the over-educated and the elite group in "Fermate" will forever have problems with him.

[leo8499]

@rickbar123 are u serious....ur def not a true haitian

[rickbar123]

@oliwood82 I don't know what has happened to the USA. Pure greed has taken over.

[oliwood82]

@rickbar123 Amen to that brother...as soon as he started building homes for the poor people, build university,

raised the minimum wage, build schools, put electricity, Washington devils kidnapped him because they saw he was gonna do good even after putting an embargo on Haiti, and Bush commanded the world not to give Haiti any help, dispite all of that he still manage to build 2 villages and so many residencial building for the poor with very lil money Haiti had that's why they took him out.