An Interview With Ben Dupuy Aristide’s Ambassador-at-Large Talks About Haiti’s Past, Present and Future

Publisher Website
Google Scholar
Abstract
Ben Dupuy is one of Haiti’s foremost radical journalists. In 1984 he founded the Committee Against Repression in Haiti. From 1983 until 1991, he was the editor of Haiti’s leading opposition newspaper, Haiti Progres. By the late 1980s, Haiti Progres had become the voice of Lavalas, the political movement that swept Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power in the December 16, 1990 elections. When Aristide took office in February, 1991, Dupuy was named ambassador-at-large. Aristide held power for eight months, until the September 1991 military coup forced him into exile. The coup claimed thousands of lives, closed down the independent press, and precipitated a flood of refugees. (See articles by J.P. Slavin and Anne-Christine D’Adesky, December, 1991, and Bill Frelick, July, 1992 in NACLA Report on the Americas.) As of this writing, the de facto government established by the coup remains in power, as U.S.-brokered negotiations between Aristide and the military continue. Since the coup, Dupuy has remained ambassador-at-large for Aristide’s government in exile. He was interviewed in his Brooklyn, N.Y. office by NACLA staff member Catherine Orenstein.

This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: