Word: haitian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...incident, pointedly designed to thwart attempts at political compromise, enraged the Bush Administration, which recalled its ambassador from Haiti last week. Beyond that swift reaction, Washington's Haitian policy is gridlocked by poor options. On the one hand, frustration over Haiti's deteriorating political and economic situation is running so high that in interviews last week with the New York Times, officials raised the remote prospect of military intervention. Yet at the same time, the Administration was petitioning the federal courts for permission to forcibly repatriate most of the boat people, who are currently residing in tents, ships...
...question now is how many of the boat people at Guantanamo will be returned to Haiti -- and how fast. Since Jan. 19, the Coast Guard has hauled 6,235 boat people to safety, bringing the total number of post-coup Haitian refugees to 14,610. Of those, almost one-quarter have been found by officers of the Immigration and Naturalization Service to have a "plausible claim" for asylum, which means they will be permitted to enter the U.S. and present further evidence. Among the most recent boat people, almost three-quarters made...
...grader at Cambridge's Matignon High School, pointed to the cracked wall by her living room sofa, as she complained of the cold temperature in the room. Her mother, Marie, appeared in the doorway buttoning her coat, and slipped out of the door after delivering some last remarks in Haitian Creole...
...rally cries during the march reflected thediversity of the protesters--the majority of whomwere Haitian and Latin American immigrants...
...idea that European culture is oppressive in and of itself is a fallacy that can survive only among the fanatical and the ignorant. The moral and intellectual conviction that inspired Toussaint-Louverture to focus the rage of the Haitian slaves and lead them to freedom in 1791 came from his reading of Rousseau and Mirabeau. When thousands of voteless, propertyless workers the length and breadth of England met in their reading groups in the 1820s to discuss republican ideas and discover the significance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, they were seeking to unite themselves by taking back the meanings...