Haiti's former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide vows to return

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Source: The Guardian

The former president of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, today gives his firmest indication yet that he will return to the country in a move that could further shake up the already febrile political climate.

Writing in the Guardian, Aristide says that his seven-year exile, most recently in South Africa, is at an end. "I will return to Haiti," he writes.

His statement of intent comes just days after the ruling Haitian government removed the major impediment to his return by promising to grant him a passport. Calls within Haiti and around the world for the former president to be allowed back have grown steadily in recent weeks.

Were Aristide to set foot back in Haiti it would be a potentially explosive move. The country has been politically paralysed since the November presidential elections which were marred, international observers said, by deep malpractice.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/05/haiti-former-president-aristide-vows-return

[burrowowl]

1. Go Aristide!

[PDJane]

2. Good.

The day that the US and Canada ousted Aristide was a day that should live in infamy.......disgusting.

[boppers]

5. The Cannibal Army says otherwise.

Messy business, that, with a lot of finger pointing and things that just don't add up.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

3. That would be wonderful for Haiti

[unkachuck]

4. Duvalier....

....Aristide, first lady Manigat, carnival singer Martelly; a virtual list of poor Republican primary candidates....

....good luck Haiti, you'll need it, you haven't suffered enough....it's now time to send you our Haitian super-fixer-upper, Bill Clinton, with more pearls of wisdom leading nowhere....