Word: slum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Allegations surfaced last week that the Namphy government was far more interested in disciplining the vigilante groups than in curbing the thugs. A distraught 19-year-old Haitian woman told the San Francisco Examiner that one day before the election soldiers swept Carrefour-Feuilles, a hillside slum south of the capital, rounding up alleged vigilantes. At the Fort Dimanche military prison, she charged, men in uniform shot and bayoneted to death 46 of her cellmates. The woman claimed that only she and two other women were spared. Namphy's government denied the report, but human-rights groups are urging Amnesty...
...walk in the park is the best cure for the blues," said seminar member Mark Primack, quoting a 19th-century preacher. "While parks are amenities in and of themselves, they are also a place for recreation and relaxation for the slum-dwellers," he added...
David E.'s campaign flyers declare that "they'll do anything to get David E. Sullivan off the City Council," and blame David J's candidacy on "the big-time developers, the slum landlords, the patronage politicians, the fast-buck condo converters...
Among Haiti's tight-knit ruling class, Aristide and his clerical colleagues are hated. But the people from the shantytowns, especially Haiti's eternally jobless young men, believe in him. "He's the messiah," says one youth, lounging in La Saline, the slum behind Aristide's church. During his sermons in the summer, the priest rarely failed to attack the regime and the U.S. government that supports...
Back in the late afternoon heat of the La Saline slum, the election provokes yawns or hoots of derision from the same people who came out in March to vote overwhelmingly for the new constitution. "This government isn't interested in real elections," says Frederick, who will not give his last name because he fears reprisals. "They want their own man in power, so that they can stay there," he gestures toward the hill where the wealthy live amid satellite dishes and swimming pools, "and we can stay here." He sweeps his hand across the tableau that poverty has painted...