The demagoguery must stop. What Haitians need, if they are to consign
to the archives of history the dehumanizing poverty they have long been forced to endure
or improve their material conditions, are real and sound economic policies, including the
rule of law, not handouts from a de facto and totalitarian president who does not know the
role of government. Professor
Yves A. Isidor, wehaitians.com executive editor |
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| Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide carries a bowl of soup at a
breakfast for the poor on the steps of the National Palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on
Monday, Dec. 23, 2002. Hundreds of poor Haitians from all over the capital came to receive
gifts from Aristide as part of the government's two-week 'Christmas of Solidarity and
Sharing' program . The program, which includes gifts, free concerts, 20,000 15-day jobs,
and food and money hand-outs, is costing the government about $1.6 million, according to
Prime Minister Yvon Neptune. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel) |
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| Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his wife Mildred Aristide
pray before a breakfast with hundreds of poor Haitians from all over the capital on the
steps of the National Palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Monday, Dec. 23, 2002. After
breakfast Aristide would distribute gifts as part of the government's two-week 'Christmas
of Solidarity and Sharing' program. The program, which includes gifts, free concerts,
20,000 15-day jobs, and food and money hand-outs, is costing the government about$1.6
million, according to Prime Minister Yvon Neptune. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel) |
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| Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide speaks to a poor woman before a
breakfast on the steps of the National Palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Monday, Dec.
23, 2002. Hundreds of Haitians from all over the capital came to receive gifts from
Aristide as part of the government's two-week 'Christmas of Solidarity and Sharing'
program. The program, which includes gifts, free concerts, 20,000 15-day jobs, and food
and money hand-outs, is costing the government about $1.6 million, according to Prime
Minister Yvon Neptune. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel) |
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| Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is seen at a breakfast for the
poor on the steps of the National Palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Monday, Dec. 23,
2002 where hundreds of Haitians from all over the capital showed up to receive gifts from
Aristide as part of the government's two-week 'Christmas of Solidarity and Sharing'
program. The program, which includes gifts, free concerts, 20,000 15-day jobs, and food
and money hand-outs, is costing the government about $1.6 million, according to Prime
Minister Yvon Neptune. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel) |
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| Isali Barolet stands outside of her tin-shack house in Petion Ville,
Haiti on Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2002 'I don't have to tell God how discouraged I am. He already
knows,' said Barolet, 35, whose relatives help pay the rent for her one-room shack. (AP
Photo/ Daniel Morel) |
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| Toy cars made out of recycled plastic bottles by Haitian youth who are
selling them to pay school fees in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Monday, Dec 23, 2002. (AP
Photo/Daniel Morel) |
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| On a roadside, 26-year-old Getchen Desir, center, is trying to sell toy
automobiles and helicopters made of discarded plastic items in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on
Monday, Dec.23, 2002. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel) |
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| Children play outside Isalie Barolet's tin-shack house in Petion Ville,
Haiti on Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2002. 'I don't have to tell God how discouraged I am. He
already knows,' said Barolet, 35, whose relatives help pay the rent for her one-room
shack. (AP Photo/ Daniel Morel) |
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| Haiti's National Palace in Port-au-Prince decorated with Christmas lights
which are lit all night during the Chrismas season on Monday, Dec. 23, 2002. Most Haitians
do not have electricity and those who do habitually receive only a few hours a day or
less. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel) |
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| The different extremely sad faces of Michèlle Montas, prominent radio
journalist Jean Léopold Dominique's widow. |
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| The private residence of Michèlle Montas in the Pétionville suburb of
Port-au-Prince. In the early morning of April 3, 2000 Montas' husband, Jean Léopold
Domonique, who repeatedly questionned bestial dictator Jean-Bertrand Aristide's fortune,
was gunned down in the courtyard of his Radio Haiti-Inter. More than two years later, or
on December 25, 2002, about 5:30 p.m., two heavily bandits opened fire on Montas'
residence, killing one of her bodyguards. |
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| Haiti's President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his wife Mildred stand at attention for
the national anthem before the inauguration of a public park near his house in Tabare,
Thursday, Dec. 26, 2002. In separate speeches this week, Aristide called members of the
opposition 'cowards' and 'traitors' for preventing progress and obstructing the electoral
process. (AP Photo/ Daniel Morel) |
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