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Title: The Uses of Haiti, Updated Edition by Paul Farmer ISBN: 1-56751-242-9 Publisher: Common Courage Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.71 (7 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: PAUL FARMER USES HAITI
Comment: On February 29, 2004, Jean-Bertrand Aristide ran for his life as a popular revolt forced him from power. Peaceful demonstrations, against his violent, dictatorial cocaine regime, were attacked by Aristide police and street gangs. On one occasion 5 were killed, 25 injured by gunfire. One of the dead was a foreign journalist. On several occasions over 300,000 people gathered for anti-Aristide marches. Aristide never managed more than 5,000 even though he paid people to go on the streets for him
Shortly before his departure, one of Aristide's close associates, Jacques Ketant, was sentenced in a Miami court for his part in moving over 30 tons of cocaine into America. He stated that he was Aristide's man and could never have operated without Aristide's support. An indictment of Aristide is in the cards for his control of Haiti's cocaine traffic into the United States and Europe. Aristide has amassed more than a billion dollars from his term in office. Not bad for an ex-priest who had $75 in his bank account prior to his first grab of the presidency in 1991.
Many fell in love with the words, not the man. They were separate elements. Aristide had the opportunity to become Haiti's greatest president. Unfortunately, he was a malevolent, murderous criminal. Sadly, President Clinton expended America's word, and treasure, to return an anti-American, psychotic manic-depressive, Marxist, murdering, thieving, cocaine-smuggling ex-priest to power. My apologies if I left anything out.
Paul Farmer has probably done a great deal in the search for an AIDs cure. Unfortunately, he has become a mouthpiece for Aristide and his band of murderous cocaine killers. THE USES OF HAITI is a fatally flawed piece of pro-Aristide writing. Someone should look at Farmer's pre-Aristide and post-Aristide bank accounts. Paul Farmer is now a wealthy man because of his association with Haiti's ex president.
Rating: 5
Summary: Uses of Haiti, Or what happens when we wage war on the poor
Comment: Dr. Paul Farmer has had incredible amounts of experience, close to 20 years, living and working for the poor people of Haiti. The key word here is poor, because regardless of what detractors like a fellow reviewer on this page might say, the plight of the poor people of Haiti has forever been slighted and undermined by subtle but draconian US policies. What Dr. Farmer exposes in Uses of Haiti, is the true nature of the war being waged against the poor of Haiti (and similar situations occur worldwide), and he uses meticulously researched details that are not very well known to the general public. I would rather take the word of a medical anthropologist who for close to two decades has been treating the poor people of rural Haiti for free over the word of someone who claims to have "been there" and endorses the right of a military junta to overtrhow a popularly elected president. Uses of Haiti is a riveting read from top to bottom and comes from someone 99.9% of people would agree has his heart in the right place i.e. alleviating the plight of the Haitian poor.
Rating: 1
Summary: Full of inaccuracies and lack of information
Comment: I was in Haiti at the time that a lot of this was going on, knew a lot of people who were principally involved, and have studied Haiti's past and present quite a bit. This book is missing a lot and inaccurately portrays a lot more. It seems that Paul Farmer, like a lot of others at the time, bought into a lot of Aristide's propaganda. From afar, he looks like a great man and a great thing for Haiti, but up close, from those paying attention within the country, he was exactly the opposite. He hasn't done anything at all for the Haitian people. His speeches are full of veiled threats and have incited his Lavalas supporters to riots, decoutage, and public murder of his opponents.
He also left out some things such as: the American Ambassador was also key in helping Aristide to escape the country with his life. General Cedras' men were the ones who began the coup, but he did not know what had happened until it had already begun. Claims that the interim government, whether good or bad, committed mass murders of crowds of Aristide's supporters were all investigated thoroughly and no evidence was ever found. The mass graves that would have undoubtedly resulted have never been found - even after all these years. Aristide was overthrown in part because of some questionable instances that occured in the short time leading up to it, including some killings. Aristide did nothing at all for his country before he was overthrown. He was no angel, as the academics seem to want him to be.
Farmer wrote this book with a biased slant and without fully checking his information. Take it from someone who was there in the almost year before Aristide was overthrown, and years afterwards. I wish that Aristide had turned out to be what he campaigned to be - but unfortunetly reality shows quite a different story.
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Title: Mountains Beyond Mountains: Healing the World: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer by TRACY KIDDER ISBN: 0375506160 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor by Paul Farmer ISBN: 0520235509 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues, Updated Edition With a New Preface by Paul Farmer ISBN: 0520229134 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 05 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Haiti in Focus: A Guide to the People, Politics, and Culture (In Focus Guides) by Charles Arthur ISBN: 1566563593 Publisher: Interlink Pub Group Pub. Date: 18 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame (Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care, No 33) by Paul Farmer ISBN: 0520083431 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: August, 1993 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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