T&T: Oh, please! a hagiography of Aristide

The reported kidnapping by the United States of America military of Haitian President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his family and their being spirited out ot Haiti, is an uncanny and shameful repeat of history. It followed by a little more than 200 years the kidnapping of Toussaint L’Ouverture who had led the world’s only successful slave revolution. Then Haiti was known as Saint Dominique or San Domingo. It was Toussaint L’Ouverture who would change the name to that which had been given it by its indigenous people — Haiti! And as in the case of Aristide, L’Ouverture’s wife and family had also been abducted and removed from Haiti. Perhaps CARICOM countries will issue travel advisories against the United States with appropriate warnings.

The world knows Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and Jean-Bertrand Aristide is no Toussaint L'Ouverture. Read the rest of this unreflective rant yourself.

I should have kept my mouth shut about the good sense of Caribbean journalists. They seem to be as reflexively left-wing as their brethren across the globe.