Haiti: Dangerous Cross Roads

Shining Path Exchange In recent months, readers of this magazine have been treated to an increasingly common specta- cle on

The killing of ex-Sandinista soldiers in Esteli, the hostage crisis, the often Machiavellian role played by Humberto Ortega, and the

The mountains of Colombia, December 2, 1992 Sefiores Antonio Caballero, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nicolas Buveaventura, Fernando Botero and the other

The Rights of Venezuela's Colombians As North Americans debate the questions of cross-bor- der class relations raised by NAFTA, Antonio

The U.S. government saw the emergence of Haiti's popular movement as a threat, which it attempted to contain and counter

Utopia Unarmed: The Latin American Left After the Cold War by Jorge G. Castafieda, Arthur A. Knopf, 498 pp., $27.50

“The Haitian mind, you know, is just different,” says Robert McCandless, a Washington lobbyist described as “the most vociferous advocate”

Antonio Navarro Wolff, a coman- dante of the former urban-based guerrilla movement M-19, is now running for president as the

Essentially, the movement which formed around President Aristide's candidacy represented an alliance of Haiti's traditional merchant bourgeoisie with an array

Like their southern cone counterparts who, while living under the harsh repression of authoritarian regimes, came to reevaluate their earlier

Many of Haiti's popular organizations trace their roots back to the Ti Kominote Legliz (TKL), for it was in these

Nearly one out of every four Haitians now resides outside the country. Its size and strong ties with the homeland