"And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934."

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"And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934."

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"Also, people are not often aware of the way the United States' policies influence what happens in places like Haiti or El Salvador or Nicaragua. Or in Columbia right now."

People

"People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it."

People

"In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of."

People

"People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places."

People

"People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I don't think that's limited to Haiti."

People

"There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness."

People

"In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States."

Politics

"Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money."

Money

"To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence."

History

"Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment."

People