{"id":4570,"date":"2008-08-19T15:45:34","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T22:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=4570"},"modified":"2008-08-26T14:02:41","modified_gmt":"2008-08-26T21:02:41","slug":"a-step-up-for-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/19\/a-step-up-for-haiti\/","title":{"rendered":"A Step Up for Haiti?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mich\u00c3\u00a8le Duvivier Pierre-Louis, the new Haitian prime minister, is having some trouble getting ratified by parliament<\/a> — and the Haitian Constitution is no help in pointing the way to a resolution. It’s about time Haiti had a female kleptocrat — it’s quite progressive. No but seriously, Ms. Pierre-Louis seems a lot better<\/a> than former president Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide<\/a>, who hoodwinked the significant and comparatively wealthy Florida Haitian community into rooting for him, only to pull off the angelic democrat mask and reveal his true diabolic dictator face. He’s now in exile in Central African Republic, one of the only places on earth worse than Haiti. Pierre-Louis split with Aristide’s party seemingly over its promotion of mob violence. Not a fan of the P\u00c3\u00a8re Lebrun<\/a>, I guess.<\/p>\n

Here’s to hoping Haiti, that could-be Caribbean paradise, can finally liberalize and knock it off with the mud-eating<\/a> crap already. Communist Cuba has a better standard of living, to give you an idea of how wretched Haiti is.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong> I have picked the wrong blog for flippance. I don’t have the time or inclination to debate with most of the offended commenters, mostly because I actually agree with most of you. I was not placing all the blame on the Haitian people for the centuries of political tragedy that continue to befall them, just making silly observations in poor taste. I simply wish to apologize for any misunderstandings and hurt feelings and promise to be more serious and substantive in my future contributions here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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