Aristide gets celebrity welcome

Jamaica Observer - Saturday, March 19th, 2011 at 9:31 AM
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Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide returned home from seven years in exile to a celebrity welcome yesterday, and immediately took a swipe at the decision to bar his political party from the country’s presidential election.

Aristide, addressing reporters and a Haitian public that clustered around TVs and radios throughout the country, said the decision not to allow his Lavalas Family party disenfranchised the majority in a sharply divided nation

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4 Comments

  1. SWEET GURLS
    March 21, 2011

    I DO NOT KNOW WHY THEY ALLOW HIM TO BACK TO THE COUNTRY FOR

    BEFORE HE LEFT THE COUNTRY HE CAUSED ALOT OF CRIME

  2. only
    March 19, 2011

    This is either a media ploy or everybody over there is crazy. I am sure that he came back for a reason and that that reason has not yet been disclosed.

  3. GOD is good
    March 19, 2011

    here he comes

    • The devil is good too
      March 19, 2011

      when & where there is corruption.he reigneth supreme like El Supremo.
      In the case of comrade Aristide, he was a priest so who would know better about god being good and the devil when and where corruption rule supreme?

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