Rezistans

Myriad voices are loosely woven to recount the tale(s) of Haitian rezistans, and American intervention, during the early 1990s-a period covering the presidential election of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the military coup d'état, and Aristide's eventual reinstatement. While we hear from "Titid" himself, Noam Chomsky, and the Haitian poet Felix Morisseau-Leroy, the more fascinating and astonishing figures are less well known: the heroic businessman who uses his contacts and wealth to support the populist movement; the Dominican priest who radio broadcasts the news to Haitians in their own creole, singing the stories to the tune of "We Shall Overcome"; and the anti-Aristide priest who assuredly justifies his own support of the Cedras regime as following the will of a "qualitative" rather than a "quantitative" majority.-Barbash/Taylor

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