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...during a brief respite in the Haitian War of Independence, French officers sought a meeting with recently retired Haitian General Toussaint L’Overture. Under false pretenses, Toussaint was arrested and forced aboard a waiting frigate bound for France. He died of neglect in the Fort de Joux dungeon nine months later. This was the first forced regime change in Haitian history...
...last moments before his kidnappers forced him to leave, Toussaint L’Overture said, “In overthrowing me, you have cut down in San Domingo only the trunk of the tree of liberty. It will spring up again by the roots for they are numerous and deep.” In his first public address from the Central African Republic, Aristide drew upon these words to urge his supporters to non-violently resist this U.S.-led regime change. As the poorest of the poor continue to struggle for democracy and equality, the crucial question remains, who will...
...Toussaint G. Losier ’04 is a social studies and Afro-American Studies concentrator in Leverett House. He is a member of the Harvard Haitian Alliance, a group which is sponsoring a teach-in tonight at 7 p.m. in the Parlor Room of Phillips Brooks House...
...Philippe is the muscle behind the movement, Dany Toussaint is the kind of shadowy power broker who could emerge as the country's next leader. Toussaint, who is patiently waiting out the civil war inside his mansion overlooking Port-au-Prince, next to a commercial shooting range he owns, is a former Aristide bodyguard who once headed Haiti's police force. He adroitly made a clean break with the President and his Lavalas Party last year when it seemed Aristide's popularity was plummeting. Toussaint, 46, is no stranger to controversy; he has been investigated by Haitian and U.S. officials...
...chim?res, who for days had been terrorizing and murdering Haitian citizens in anticipation of a rebel assault. By Monday morning the joint rebel-police squads were finished, and Philippe rode triumphantly into Port-au-Prince in the back of a pickup as crowds chanted ?Libert?!? ?He is the second Toussaint L?Ouverture!? said fork-lift driver Andre Charles, 36, referring to the hero who won Haiti?s independence from France 200 years ago. ?He delivered...