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...that's exactly what Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has on his hands these days. In office for only three months, he insists he is trying to reform the nation; but political violence has left several people shot and a schoolgirl killed in a bomb blast--and new questions about whether Aristide is still the populist hero the U.S. saved seven years ago or a Creole caudillo who may send another tsunami of Haitian boat people onto beaches run by Bush's brother, Florida Governor Jeb Bush. "Americans," says Aristide, 47, "ought to know that I am the democrat they...
...Indonesia, and as oligarchic nations like Mexico elect more democratic presidents, De Soto's timing is propitious. His Third World clients hope that property-title reform will especially benefit industries like clothing, auto parts and agriculture--where the foreign-trade potential for extralegal businesses is enormous. Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide wants to slice through medieval red tape and legalize his nation's extralegal assets, which amount to $5.2 billion--four times its legal assets. "We would," he says, "finally put our people in partnership with the system and with foreign investors...
...impossible to estimate how many others like the Pembroke Pines girl, nicknamed Little Hope in the Haitian community, are laboring in American households. But Romer and other Haitian- American social workers report that current and former restaveks are coming to them in greater numbers now for help, largely because the Pembroke Pines case galvanized support for such victims. Several organizations have set up hotlines for kids seeking help; they offer ex-restaveks assistance in finding homes, jobs and opportunities for schooling...
...turns out, however, being a restavek in the Haitian community in the U.S.--where immigrants acquire a higher self-image--is usually a source of more shame than it is in Haiti. Whereas restaveks in Haiti spoke freely with TIME, all the Miami restaveks interviewed pleaded that their real names not be used and their photos not be taken...
Still, that the community is acknowledging the practice at all is a start, and a sign that Haitian Americans, like Cuban Americans before them, are beginning the passage from huddled refugees to more confident immigrants and players in the U.S. "We are not going to let Haitian traditions like restavek flourish here because we know now that America is the great equalizer among us," says attorney Phillip Brutus, who in November was elected Florida's first Haitian-American state legislator. "We're making giant leaps from where we were 10 years ago in that sense...