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Edwidge Danticat

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

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

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"I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when It's at its extreme. And that's what they end up knowing about it."
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"Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy."
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"Or even the state of Florida, where they are prepared to execute children. Umm, well, you hope that at least that there is something there to be claimed."
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"That's whatever news topic, whatever political process any country is going through - whenever they are in the news, that's when they exist. If you don't see them they don't exist."
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"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."
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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."
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"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."
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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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"In fact that is the struggle that most Americans - As rich as this country is, most Americans are very limited in their interaction with the world, unless the world comes to us in a very shocking way."
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"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."
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