Haiti
Description
Haiti holds the distinctions of being the first independent nation of Latin America and the Caribbean, the first black-led republic in the world after it gained independence in 1804 as part of a successful slave revolution, and the poorest country in the Americas. Government instability due to political violence is the norm. This episode examines the political situation in Haiti, including an interview with then exiled Haitian president Jean Bertrand Aristide. The former Catholic priest, who was elected with 67% of the vote, served barely six months in office before being ousted in a military coup. Also featured are David Korb's film "The Other Haiti" about the grass roots democratic movements there, a report from Andrew Tyndall on television news coverage in Haiti, and the country's peasant democracy movement and its music?
Runtime
26 min
Series
Subjects
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
[2013], c1994
Database
Films on Demand
Direct Link
Similar Films
Javedanfar. Iran sanctions are working
President Obama on the way forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan
President Obama's statement on Libya
Breaking the Taboo. Have We Lost the War on Drugs?
Following Antigone
UN Sex Abuse Scandal
Big Noise Dispatches No. 2
A Massacre foretold
Episode 5, Scene of the Crime (JFK Declassified, Tracking Oswald)
Don't Panic. How to End Poverty in 15 Years
Child Labor. Part 2
The Rising of China Arctic
The Willmar 8
Haiti. Where Did the Money Go?
Putin and the Presidents