Illuminating the Arts-Policy Nexus 

Countries:

• Haiti
  
• Cuba
• Dominican Republic
• Grenada

Haiti:

France comes to make us slaves. God gave us liberty; France has no right to take it away. Burn the cities, destroy the harvests, poison the wells, show the white man the hell he comes to make. —Toussaint L’Ouverture, founder of the second American republic, 1801

You are peasants; you are poor. You are the same color I am. They don’t like you. Your hair is kinky, same as mine. They don’t like you. Your children are not children of big shots. They don’t like you. —President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, December 2002

Uneven enforcement of criminal law and efforts to revive army imperil troubled nation’s future:

• International Herald Tribune, April 2004: Haiti after Aristide: The danger of a revived army

Haiti’s problems are the product of a deeply-divided and dysfunctional society, not just failed leadership:

• World Policy Reports, March 2004: Democracy and Human Rights in Haiti

Exorcising Haiti’s ghosts:

• World Policy Paper, February 1996: Haiti: An Agenda for Democracy

Why Aristide should have completed the three years stolen by the military coup:

• Journal of Commerce, December 1995: Let Aristide Stay in Office

International human rights law calls for the restoration of democracy, but not foreign intervention in the democratic process itself:

• Newsday, September 1994: U.S. Must Not Handicap Aristide

Haiti is not Somalia: the case for intervention:

• The Oregonian, July 1994: Should America send military to Haiti? Yes: Objective is to rid police reign of terror

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Cuba:

How Washington unintentionally helps sustain autocratic rule in Cuba:

• Washington Post, May 2001: Playing Into Castro's Hands

A leftist caudillo’s police state:

• Douglas Payne, INS Resource Information Center Perspective Series, October 1999:Human Rights in Cuba Since the Papal Visit
• Douglas Payne, INS Resource Information Center Perspective Series, December 1998:Cuba: Systematic Repression of Dissent

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Dominican Republic:

Blind octagenarian holds on to power through vote fraud:

• Miami Herald, August 1994: Convene a new Dominican election

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Grenada:

Revolution and invasion:

• The Christian Century, April 1984: What went wrong in Grenada?
• Christianity & Crisis, 30 April 1984: Grenada as looking glass: Playing the “Russian game” in the Americas

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