Aristide and the Endless Revolution

While mystery still attends the abrupt 2004 departure of democratically elected Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide — did he voluntarily resign or was he literally kidnapped and forced into exile? — Nicolas Rossier's well-researched documentary draws its own definite conclusions. In many quarters, Aristide's "resignation" on January 29, 2004, was nothing short of a coup, and the subsequent savage violence at the hands of exiled rebel forces — many of whom secretly returned to Haiti in the previous weeks — served as further evidence that Aristide's departure was anything but voluntary. Throughout 2003 the Haitian president was embroiled in a p...