Word: pascale
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Chaos and violence descended upon Haiti in fall 1991, when a military coup toppled the fledgling elected government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Aristide supporters fled the island to escape persecution by the new regime. A pregnant Pascal was beaten—leading to a miscarriage—and burned with cigarettes before she decided to leave her husband, two children, and mother behind in search of safety. Sailing northward on dangerous makeshift rafts, refugees were rounded up by the U.S. Coast Guard...
...Coast Guard started sending Haitians home without stopping at Guantánamo. In a defeat for the Yale team, the Supreme Court eventually upheld the Bush policy. Koh also had to juggle a separate case before Johnson that urged the release of the remaining HIV-positive refugees, including Pascal, from the squalid conditions on the naval base...
...technicalities of the process. Instead, he infuses the narrative with dialogue and glimpses into the minds of the lawyers and students. These insights are built upon interviews with nearly all of the key participants—Goldstein notes that he formally sat down with Koh 27 times and Pascal 34 times. The character-centered thrust of the book and the easy language makes the complex story accessible to everyone...
...also makes it easy to develop emotional attachments with the students—who are alternately discouraged, distraught, and joyous, but always passionate—and with Pascal, who leads a hunger strike on Guantánamo and represents the other refugees in demanding respect and freedom...
...that the remaining 267 HIV-positive detainees had to be released: “The Government has failed to demonstrate to this Court’s satisfaction that the detainee’s illness warrants the kind of indefinite detention usually reserved for spies and murderers.” Pascal was finally flown off of Guantánamo and settled in New York, where her children and her mother later joined...