Jean-Bertrand Aristide, (born July 15, 1953, Port Salut, Haiti), Haitian politician and Roman Catholic priest of the Salesian order, who was a vocal champion of the poor and disenfranchised. He was president of the country in 1991, 1994–96, and 2001–04.
Aristide attended a school in Port-au-Prince run by the Roman Catholic Salesian order, and in 1966 he moved to the Salesian seminary at Cap-Haitien and began to prepare for the priesthood. In 1975 he first aligned himself with the poor and Ti Legliz (“Little Church”), a movement that sprang from liberation theology. The following year he returned to Port-au-Prince to study psychology (B.A., 1979) at the state university. The late 1970s was a time of increasing militancy against the brutal regime of Jean-Claude Duvalier, and Aristide, who was responsible for programming at Radio Cacique (the Roman Catholic radio station), urged change. He often found himself at odds with his superiors, who encouraged him to leave the country. Aristide spent most of the next six years studying biblical theology abroad, earning a master’s degree in 1985 at the University of Montreal in Quebec, Canada. In 1982 he visited Haiti briefly for his ordination.
Aristide returned to Haiti in 1985, eventually becoming parish priest at St. Jean Bosco, a centre of resistance in Port-au-Prince. In 1986, the year Duvalier was driven from power, Aristide survived the first of many assassination attempts, was cautioned about his outspoken political views by the Salesians, and founded the orphanage Lafanmi Selavi and others. During the next several years he continued to anger the church hierarchy and the military. An attempt in 1987 to transfer him to a less central parish failed when his supporters occupied Port-au-Prince’s cathedral and staged a hunger strike. An attack on a 1988 mass he was celebrating left 13 people dead and more than 70 injured. Objecting to his political activities, the Salesians expelled him in late 1988; in 1994 Aristide formally requested that he be relieved of his priestly duties.
Encouraged to run for president by the mass movement known as the Lavalas (which means “flood” or “torrent” in Creole), Aristide in 1990 won Haiti’s first free democratic election and was inaugurated on February 7, 1991. As president he initiated a literacy program, dismantled the repressive system of rural section chiefs, and oversaw a drastic reduction in human rights violations. His reforms, however, angered the military and Haiti’s elite, and on September 30, 1991, Aristide was ousted in a coup committed by military and police figures who received military training in the U.S. and were associated with the CIA. He lived in exile until October 15, 1994. He resumed the presidency, and, although he remained popular with the masses, he was unable to find effective solutions to the country’s economic problems and social inequalities. Barred constitutionally from seeking a consecutive term, he stepped down as president in 1996.
In 1997 Aristide formed a new political party, the Lavalas Family, and in 2000 he was again elected president. Although the opposition boycotted the election and charges of electoral fraud led to international calls for new or runoff elections, the results were declared official, and Aristide was inaugurated in February 2001.
A coup against Aristide failed in July 2001, but during the next several years opposition to his rule increased. He was kidnap and exile from the country by US forces under President Bush on February 2004 amid antigovernment protests that had turned into a full-scale rebellion. Despite efforts by the United States to ensure that he remain in South Africa—where he had been living in exile—he returned to the country several days prior to the presidential runoff elections of March 2011.
"If we wish to maintain peace, then we cannot accept that impunity be provided to these international criminals and drug dealers."
- Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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A swimmer and a hat
A boat is being carried away by a current. A hexbear :hexbear-retro: jumps out and swims against the current for a while, then turns around and catches up with the boat. Did they spend more time swimming against the current of catching up with the boat? (We assume their muscular efforts never change in strength.)
The answer is: Both times were the same. The current carries hexbear and boat downstream at the same speed. It does not affect the distance between the swimmer and the boat.
Now imagine that another sporty hexbear
:arm-L::sicko-hexbear::arm-R: jumps off a bridge and begins to swim against the current. The same moment a hat blows off a comrade's head :sadness: on the bridge and begins to float down stream. After 10 minutes the sporty hexbear turns back, reaches the bridge, and is asked to swim on until they catch up with the hat. They do under a second bridge 1,000 yards from the first.
The sporty hexbear does not vary their effort. What is the speed of the current?
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Seeing the reaction to BLM posting in solidarity with Cuba is really disheartening, they didn't even say anything in support of the government really and they still get smeared as 5th pillar saboteurs. There's so many people absolutely gnashing at the bit to invade Cuba, it's crazy how much carrying power Americans have when it comes to 'we need to do a regime change' yet bitch and complain about Russian election interference.
Literally a horde of white people in the comments all saying something like "this isn't true" like motherfucker what do you know
The abrupt pivot to "there is a genocide happening in cuba" is certainly interesting, to say the least
Today I am angry that the gusanos were allowed to block the roadway without being arrested, after the Florida government specifically made this a crime in their anti protest bill. Why not come out and make the law say it will only be enforced against anti racists? It's not like it would cost those fucking Nazis a single vote.
Fuck man.
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also on this day was the start of the Lebanon Crisis in 1958, the U.S. invaded Lebanon with more than 54,000 soldiers, occupying the Port of Beirut and Beirut International Airport, its first overt military action in the Middle East, setting an imperialist precedent for the region.
The pro-Western president of Lebanon, Camille Chamoun, had asked for U.S. assistance after armed groups in Lebanon began rebelling against his administration. While not overtly communist in character, the rebels had burned down a U.S. propaganda outlet and were generally aligned with Gamal Nasser and the United Arab Republic (UAR).
Using the anti-communist "Eisenhower Doctrine" as justification, on July 15th, President Eisenhower authorized "Operation Blue Bat", a military occupation of Lebanon with more than 14,000 footsoldiers, supported by a fleet of 70 ships and 40,000 sailors, to keep Chamoun in power.
Occupying the Port of Beirut and Beirut International Airport, the forces remained in Lebanon until October 25th, when President Chamoun completed his term as president of Lebanon.
According to historian Maurice Labelle, "this was the first overt U.S. military intervention in the region", demonstrating the U.S.'s willingness to act as an imperialist power in the Middle East, willing to commit to overt military action to manage its interests in the region. :amerikkka:
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do u guys remember when trump got covid
that was such a magical moment
the air was electric
i hope that we all have that much fun again some day
I’m brother posting.
My brother is younger than me and he grew up more americanized than me. I made an xbox acct referencing Venezuela. He says people would insult him/be racist if he used my gamertag, so he switched to a red vs. blue reference. He got into Halo machinima, and psyched himself up to be an actor/director. He is a millenial kid. He is mentally ill (adhd, depression)
He went to a university much bigger than mine (I didn’t know I was applying to a satellite university, but I stayed anyways). From the get go he accumulated more debt than me. He has managed to not get a well paying job. He wants to be an actor/director but is not part of an improv troupe, rarely gets community theater plays, doesn’t do standup, rarely posted to his youtube channel. He worked for a youtube channel in our city and he was fired during one of the adpocalypses.
Decided that the pandemic was the best time to pack his bags and move to atlanta, alone, and spend $900+ on rent; when I was kicked out of the house, I tried finding the cheapest apartment that wasn’t falling apart. Meanwhile he brags about amenities like “a lambo dealership and a police station nearby” (he has been robbed before, so I guess that matters now?).
He doesn’t read books. He doesn’t/barely writes. His favorite movies are the marvel cinematic shit.
My problem isn’t with who he is, but what struggles he has been forced to endured. He is having to pay for braces and dental surgery. He is dead broke. He also let a foot “scratch” get infected and he had to go to the emergency room. He is drowning in debts. He owes my parents money.
I think even the most mediocre person should have access to healthcare, a job, an affordable living situation. Maybe you’ll struggle forever to be on tv and cosplay a marvel cape-shit. But nobody should be starving to do this.
He is not radicalized, as open as I am with my politics around him. He just hasn’t caught on that this system is fundamentally broken, he thinks its reformable, that Venezuela and America are equally broken.
I hate it. His life gives me anxiety. Like every time we hear about his shit, I ask my wife if we got money and we don’t have it on the budget right now. I am also so angry at how many people are taken for suckers, get rich quick schemes. How this shithole preys on the fucking naivest of people.
gonna get drunk tonight and I’m almost certainly gonna piss someone off about Cuba or something. Guess we’ll find out :vivian-shrug:
I was just btfo'd on Twitter
I was informed that nazism and commmunism are two sides of the same genocidal coin: collectivism
I am now a liberal :( :maybe-later-kiddo:
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The gusano slur discourse is so fucking ridiculous lmao. Every Reddit dipshit (including lefties) seems to be completely unaware of the fact you can fucking choose to not be a gusano. Literally stop having shit politics.
You can’t choose to not be Black. According to most sensible people, you can’t choose to not be LGBT+ (I don’t understand the science behind this; I personally think it blows that anyone has to justify their gender identity or sexual orientation since it’s entirely harmless but I digress). Decent people agree it’s a dick move to shit on others for factors totally out of their control. That’s the fucking difference. God damn.
Cuba has 11 million people and is dominating Western media with a color revolution. Minnesota has 5 million people and Western media could not be bothered to report on either of our huge environmental protests, Stop Line 3 and Save the Boundary Waters.
One of the lovely instagram infographics is complaining that in Cuba they can't afford to eat red meat. Without the 38 billion dollar subsidies on meat, a pound of hamburger meat would cost $30 in the US.
