Word: bertrande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...marked contrast to the intense political strife in his homeland of Haiti, exiled President Jean Bertrand Aristide spoke calmly and quietly in a talk before 70 students and faculty in Lehman Hall yesterday...
...agreement calls for the eventual return to office of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a populist priest and champion of the poor; the formation of a Cabinet of national unity under Prime Minister-designate Rene Theodore, a former Aristide rival and Communist Party moderate; and a general amnesty for those involved in the coup...
...days later, The Washington Post revealed that U.S. business leaders had pressured the administration to relax the sanctions. Most poor Haitians say they will suffer anything to get back their beloved leader, Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide. The New York Times captured the junta's response to the Bush move in a simple headline: "Leaders of Coup Gleeful After U.S. Loosens Its Embargo...
...back home is rarely easy. Those seeking a better life pose one of the more painful questions for a nation philosophically committed to an open door. While Administration officials acknowledge that the | political climate in Haiti has worsened since the Sept. 30 coup that deposed democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, they maintain that most of the boat people are economic migrants whose free-floating fears of persecution are not grounds enough for asylum. Backed by a Jan. 31 Supreme Court decision, little can now deter the Administration's plan to empty the detention camps, save a public outcry...
...Haiti's poorest citizens, the term "quality of life" is a cruel mockery. Since the Sept. 30 military coup that deposed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and precipitated a hemisphere-wide economic embargo, malnutrition and disease have spread at a rate well beyond the usual disquieting norm. In rural areas, hungry peasant farmers eat the seeds they should be planting. Twenty miles from the capital, immunization programs have been curtailed, a casualty of government efforts to conserve fuel that make refrigeration of vaccines impossible. As a result, children are dying of measles. Yet in the slums, people do not complain...