How A Widow's Pain Became Haiti's Fight (2001)

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Channel: Journeyman Pictures · 2015 · News & Politics

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An Anarchic Heritage: In 2000, gunmen murdered Jean Dominique Montas. He was a straight-talking popular journalist in Haiti who investigated the corrupt - and that led him into conflict with the government.

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He worked alongside his wife Michele Montas at Radio Haiti. Today Michele opens her own radio show with a recording from her husband; “It’s 7 o’clock – good morning everybody”. His voice from the grave has become a reminder of how delicate Haiti’s stability still is. The young priest Jean Bertrand Aristide was a populist who led an uprising against dictatorship but today he seems to be succumbing to Haiti’s same old violent riddles. Having overthrown their slave masters, Haitians became the victims of a chain of dictators.

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