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"We came to City Hall because we don'tunderstand why the RCB repeatedly approves rentincreases," said Ehrl LaFontant, a staff organizerof the Eviction Free Zone. He said the tenantsstaged the protest because of the landlord's lackof response to complaints.
Precisely how the coup got rolling is still unclear, but the army left no doubt it had been unhappy with what it saw as Aristide's high-handedness. It ! had demanded that Cedras and other senior officers be confirmed by parliament and that Aristide disband a new 50-man presidential...
Cambridge resident Earl Lafontant, of the Haitian, advocacy group Club CIBAO, spoke about the problem of toxic dumping in Haiti and other foreign countries. He said that the U.S. had transformed the small Caribbean nation into "a dumping ground for foreign toxic waste" in recent years.
The surprise arrest stemmed from a takeover attempt led by former Duvalierist strongman Dr. Roger Lafontant after the populist Roman Catholic priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide won the presidency in the Dec. 16 vote. Pascal- Trouillot has said that she was kidnapped from her home and held hostage for 10 hours...
The military's backing for the constitutional process was anything but certain when Lafontant initiated his coup. The swaggering ex-Interior Minister had defiantly returned from five years of exile in July, but the army had failed to act on a warrant for his arrest, even after he declared that...