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After addressing the OAS last week, deposed Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide met for 45 minutes in his Washington hotel suite with TIME's Amy Wilentz, author of The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier. Excerpts from the interview...
...have no doubt that, even in exile, I am President of Haiti, and that I will be reinstalled in my rightful place, rightful because that is where the Haitian people want me to be -- that is where they voted me to be . . . and the world community is simply reinforcing their will...
...dominate the beast of the Haitian army for seven months was no small thing for my government. It's like a lion in the circus. The trainer is there in the cage with the lion, and he tries to find every weak spot of the animal in order to maintain his control. But if he fights the lion with force and violence, the tamer will lose, because he does not have the same physical power. Therefore he has to use intelligence. Sometimes, though, the beast strikes at you for no reason...
...surprised that the U.S. has sent Marines to Guantanamo in order to be ready to protect the lives of its citizens living in Haiti. But the U.S. must also allow the OAS to follow its peaceful route. We are looking for ways to liberate the Haitian people, and military intervention is not one we even consider . . . Military intervention also raises ugly memories in Haiti, and we cannot exist if we forget our history. Neither U.S. officials nor Haitian officials support intervention...
...city's Haitian population of about 10,000 owns its own taxicab company and dominates a number of local parishes. Last year, the City Council voted to make Port-Au-Prince one of its sister cities. And last March, a month after Aristide was elected, the city sent a goodwill delegation to tour the small Caribbean country...