Word: haitians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another. The rural police, notaries and Tonton Macoutes also seize property with a flourish of phony documents and a bag of city tricks. Even those who try to help the peasants often end up hurting them. When African swine fever hit the pig population of Haiti several years ago, Haitian authorities, under U.S. insistence, slaughtered all the peasants' hardy black Creole pigs. Unable to afford the new, imported white pigs or provide for their finicky tastes, most peasants suffered a severe decline in their standard of living...
Simon Smith, immigration counselor for CHAMA, (Cambridge Haitian American Association), said that lower income Haitians will suffer as a result of the increasing land values and rental rates in the square. "When you have new businesses, displacement of the poor results. There are plenty of examples, Roxbury and the South End, to prove it," saysid Smith who adds that he is skeptical of MIT's plan to provide low-income housing...
...Prosper Avril. The atrocity added considerably to the mystique surrounding the slight, bespectacled 35-year-old Roman Catholic priest, a socialist who is widely called a "prophet." Formerly a little- known worker among the dispossessed of his parish, Aristide is the only authentic leader who has emerged from the Haitian masses during the chaotic period since the despised dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier was overthrown...
...directive came not from the Haitian government but from Father Aristide's superiors in the Salesian Society of St. John Bosco, the 129-year- old religious order popularly known as the Salesians. Upset by Aristide's strident political activism, they commanded him to leave his homeland by the same date, Oct. 17, and to go into exile in Canada. Last week, as that date passed, it was clear that Aristide was not about to leave...
...SHADOWS. Haitians long suspected that Lieut. General Henri Namphy, ousted as President last month, had links to the dreaded Tontons Macoutes. But photos found after his overthrow have shocked even the most cynical Haitians. One shows Namphy with his arms around two Macoutes assassins killed by mobs during the coup. Namphy apparently also had a nasty temper; a Haitian businessman claims he vowed to murder two U.S. legislators if they showed up to observe last November's elections. (They never came.) No wonder no country has offered Namphy political asylum...