haitian president jean bertrand aristide

You are looking at two leaders being closely watched by US policy makers. Former Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide being welcomed by the leader of Cuba, Fidel Castro

Jean Bertrand Aristide, former President of Haiti, has always been amenable to working with the Cuban Government. During his Presidency, educational services and health programs launched by Aristide and the Lavalas party had been undertaken with assistance from their Caribbean neighbor. Haiti and Cuba began a humanitarian relationship in 1998 through which Haitian doctors received training in Cuba, and doctors from Cuba moved to work in the rural parts of Haiti. Throughout the years up until the January 2010 earthquake, nearly 600 Haitian doctors had been trained in Cuba.

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Here is a picture of former Jean-Bertrand Aristide's security, Oriel Jean, who was charged on cocaine smuggling.

Oriel Jean, 39, a former security chief for the ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was arrested on charges of cocaine smuggling; he appeared in a Miami Federal Court on March 22, 2004. This arrest, in some way, supported the U.S complaints that the Aristide government was soft in narcotics trafficking. Jean was a high level officer even in the middle 1990s when the country was run by anti-Aristide military and police officers. A week before his arrest, Oriel Jean was extradited from Canada on a conspiracy charge of cocaine trafficking. He had served as the chief of presidential palace security from the beginning of 2001 until June 2003, well after U.S cancelled his visa on trafficking allegation. Different sources reveal that Jean used to charge $50,000 for each plane-load of cocaine that landed in Haiti during the period between 2000 and 2003. Furthermore, he used to collect a percentage of profit from the drug traffickers. Prosecutors were able to convict Oriel Jean, the former official closest to Aristide. It is no secret that even former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide had been under investigation for drug trafficking and money laundering.

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Here is the picture of a huge crowd welcoming former Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide from Exile in South Africa.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide (61), the former president of Haiti ended his seven years exile in South Africa when he landed on the grounds of Toussaint L'Overture Airport, Port-au-Prince on March 18, 2013. Thousands of his supporters were waiting to welcome him at the airport. His American civil rights and immigration lawyer Ira Kurzban, had earlier announced his plan to return to Haiti. Before his departure from a small airport in Johannesburg, South Africa, Aristide had spoken to about 50 reporters in several languages. The South African Foreign Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane accompanied the former President Aristide, his wife, Milfred and two daughters, Christine (14) and Michaela (12) to the airport. His children have passed half of their formative years in exile. Before departing Johannesburg, the former President spoke in Zulu to announce---"the great day has arrived to say goodbye before returning home. Haiti is eagerly waiting as their dreams will be fulfilled on my return. The Haitian people will mark the end of exile and coup d'etats while peacefully we move from social exclusion to social inclusion."

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National Security Agency Spied on Former Haitian Leader Aristide

Fallout from Edward Snowden's release of National Security Agency (NSA) files continues. Ira Kurzban, a Miami Attorney, revealed classified material from the Clinton administration, now available, showed in a 1994 file the NSA had been listening in on former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's phone calls.

Kurzban said the media considered hijacking Aristide's conversations to ". . . violate the U.N. charter and international law . . ." Public knowledge at the time; it did not change the government's behavior.

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Haitian Caribbean News Network, a pro Government news site has reported that Former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has been placed under house arrest. Also from the same source, the residence of former Haitian leader located in Tabarre will now be guarded by agents of the prison administration (APENA). Also, based on the last order issued by Judge Lamarre Belizaire, the perimeter of the residence will be under the control of the Central Directorate of the Judicial Police (DCPJ ).

Haitian Caribbean News Network also reported that from now on, only Judge Lamarre Belizaire could authorize anyone to visit Jean-Bertrand Aristide, in his residence in Tabarre.

Pawol Pale, Pawol Komprann!

Mezanmi, me sa ke mwin tande: Non selman ke Jean Bertrand Aristide pa ka pati kite peyi-a, konyè-a, li pa kapab kite lakay li non plis. Sa ponko fini. Li paka recevwa moun lakay li non plis si Jij Lamarre Belizaire pa aprouve.

Se yon sel ti problem mwin jinyin ak tout sa se sous koze yo. Koze sa soti nan sit web Haitian-Caribbean News Network ki ape dirije pa Guyler C. Delva. Anpil moun di ke Guy ape travay pou Gouvenman-an

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Here is a photo of Danny Glover And Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide.
, a friend of haiti, is currently over 65 years old and as such has been able to see most of the changes we only read and hear about. He is thus in a better position to see and identify potential easily including that of an upcoming country.

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