Edwidge Danticat: evaluation

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…In retrospect, do you think the US restoration of Aristide in 1994 was a mistake? Was it more colonialism? Or was it the best thing that somehow had to be done? I think that was a very difficult moment, and those generals in that moment . . . During that coup d’état, thousands and thousands of people had been killed. At that time, I was working on a film called Tonbe leve, and we were interviewing many people who had been victimized during the coup d’état. One of them was an incredibly brave woman named Anette Bellance who had survived and been really butchered and had lost her arm, and other people. I think at that time, President Aristide was part of that decision, and he wanted to return. At that time, I guess, that was the right thing to do. The generals — they were ready to stay, and people were dying. That was the decision that was made by President Aristide, and he returned. If you were minister of education in Haiti and had a fair amount of latitude, what would you do?…

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