Threats to Aristide supporters [View All]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, March 18.—Members of the party headed by the deposed president of Haiti, Jean Bertrand Aristide, are being repressed and, according to his former minister Leslie Voltaire, his former aides are under threat.

Voltaire stated today that members of the Lavalas Family Party cannot meet and are being subjected to a veritable witch hunt.


The French government, the former colonial metropolis, has decided that Dominique de Villepin, its foreign minister, will be the first foreign dignitary to visit the country in response to an invitation by the new government. He should arrive in Haiti before the end of the month.

The significance of this act is evident: it will be the first visit from a head of French diplomacy since Haiti’s independence in 1804, according to the AFP news agency.

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