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...upstairs dancehall—stage lighting fixtures above the floor were swaying as the crowd bounced euphorically to the rolling Caribbean rhythms. The crowd, including a huge majority of Haitians and a flag or two, sang along with dreadlocked bandleader Theodore “Lolo” Beaubrun, Jr. and his wife Mimerose Beaubrun, who provided a female vocal counterpoint. The music was unrelentingly energetic, but at times suffered from being almost too eclectic. The dexterous guitarist served up ringing riffs that jived perfectly with the group’s pan-Africanist outlook but occasionally slipped into solos that were...
...House of Blues, with its motto of “Help ever, hurt never,” was a safe bet for Beaubrun to give free range to his political and spiritual beliefs, both those about wicked politicians and those about it being time to “unite what we say, what we think and what we do.” Though he was sometimes incomprehensible through crowd cheering and a creole accent, Beaubrun’s connection with his audience was palpable: when he bounced, they shook the floor. When his fist came up, the stage was obscured...
Without law and order, says Theodore Beaubrun Jr., leader of the voodoo rock band Boukman Eksperyans, "everyone makes their own justice." Mobs play judge and jury, hacking people to death for crimes real or imagined. The omnipresent "popular organizations," self-proclaimed local leaders who act as watchdog, pressure group and enforcer of political correctness, command the masses and own the real power. "The popular organizations control this city," says Jean Robert Lalannes, a Cap Haitien radio-station director threatened with death after he criticized Aristide. "The vacuum of state authority is complete...
White House staffers traveling with Clinton today downplayed the importance of allegations that Haitian Interior Minister Mondesdir Beaubrun was involved in the murder of an opposition leader this week . (Aristide said flatly that Beaubrun was innocent.) U.S. officials told TIME White House correspondentJames Carneythat they disclosed the charges in order to demonstrate that the U.S. government will not condone political retribution in Haiti. Even so, they took no chances on risky photo-ops today: "There will not be an encounter," a State Department official said curtly when asked if Clinton and the minister would cross paths. "They will not shake...
...senior Clinton Administration official tellsTIME Miami bureau chief Cathy Booththat the U.S. has "serious concern" thatHaitian President Jean-Bertrande Aristide's interior minister, Mondesdir Beaubrun, may have been involved in the assassination of Mireille Durocher Bertin , a political opponent of the president, on Tuesday. "There are some real thugs still involved as Aristide supporters on the left and they're settling accounts from the past," the official said. The matter has taken on political urgency because President Clinton plans to visit Port-au-Prince on Friday -- the first U.S. president to do so in 60 years. Booth reports that...
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