It will destroy the country's peasant economy. As a rider, the U.S. army took from the Haitian army headquarters 160,000 pages of documents. The U.S. government refuses to return these documents. The documents show the extent of CIA involvement in the coup which overthrew Aristide in 1991. Lastly, an elegy.
Curtains are drawn, lights go out.
It's as if it never happened. In 1979 the Sandinistas triumphed in a remarkable popular revolution against the Somoza dictatorship. They went on to address their poverty stricken country with unprecedented vigor and sense of purpose. They introduced a literacy campaign and health provisions for all citizens which were unheard of in the region, if not throughout the whole continent. They created an active, spontaneous, pluralistic society.