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I've been reading the Haiti Trilogy by Madison Smartt Bell, but out of order. It might be good for the study of writing (Bell is also the author or Narrative Design) to read the books out of order. There are a lot of characters and it can be hard for to keep track of the African, Creole, and French names, like all those similar-seeming names in Lord of the Rings or other fantasy series books. I can see how making a lot of movies and "fanfic" about this trilogy could be great for more unified and accurate views of the world: especially USA foreign policy, immigrant-bashin and "typical Antony Blinken" lying in the course of his work as the Secretary of State for the USA.... At the end of the thrid book one character is sacrificed as "a fanatic" so that soldier in transformatin can save another character. Getting to the second book after the third one made me more sensitive to the creation of "a fanatic": even if the term was used by a character who probably didn't really feel that way about the scarred man...

.> Madison Smartt Bell, author of a three volume series on the Haitian Revolution that begins with the masterful All Souls’ Rising, (all souls being the English translation of Toussaint), wrote this about Toussaint’s end:


.> .> In fact, Toussaint survived a little more than seven months at the Fort de Joux. In the conclusion of his memoir he had written, with a certain insight into Napoleon’s plan for him: “Is it not to cut off someone’s legs and order him to walk? Is it not to cut out his tongue and tell him to talk? Is it not to bury a man alive?” No one wanted to make him a martyr. His bones were lost in a potter’s field, but his spirit, never to be suppressed, helped carry the Haitian Revolution to ultimate victory.


.> Speaking of Haitians being moved around the globe by nonHaitians: today, 61 Haitian migrants who were deported from the US to Haiti in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak here. Haiti had already closed its borders last month in hopes of preventing an outbreak of the virus, but the US was allowed to violate that with this deportation.

https://amywilentz.com/deportations-on-the-anniversary-of-toussaints-death/

#AmyWilentz #HaitiHistory #DeportationsToHaiti #USAdeportations #MadisonSmarttBell #HaitiTrilogy

#^Deportations on the Anniversary of Toussaint’s Death

It’s been 217 years since Toussaint died of cold, exposure, and neglect on April 7, 1803, at the Fort de Joux, on a high hilltop in the Doubs, France. He’d been arrested treacherously i…

I've been reading the Haiti Trilogy by Madison Smartt Bell, but out of order. It might be good for the study of writing (Bell is also the author or Narrative Design) to read the books out of order. There are a lot of characters and it can be hard for to keep track of the African, Creole, and French names, like all those similar-seeming names in Lord of the Rings or other fantasy series books. I can see how making a lot of movies and "fanfic" about this trilogy could be great for more unified and accurate views of the world: especially USA foreign policy, immigrant-bashin and "typical Antony Blinken" lying in the course of his work as the Secretary of State for the USA.... At the end of the thrid book one character is sacrificed as "a fanatic" so that soldier in transformatin can save another character. Getting to the second book after the third one made me more sensitive to the creation of "a fanatic": even if the term was used by a character who probably didn't really feel that way about the scarred man...

.> Madison Smartt Bell, author of a three volume series on the Haitian Revolution that begins with the masterful All Souls’ Rising, (all souls being the English translation of Toussaint), wrote this about Toussaint’s end:


.> .> In fact, Toussaint survived a little more than seven months at the Fort de Joux. In the conclusion of his memoir he had written, with a certain insight into Napoleon’s plan for him: “Is it not to cut off someone’s legs and order him to walk? Is it not to cut out his tongue and tell him to talk? Is it not to bury a man alive?” No one wanted to make him a martyr. His bones were lost in a potter’s field, but his spirit, never to be suppressed, helped carry the Haitian Revolution to ultimate victory.


.> Speaking of Haitians being moved around the globe by nonHaitians: today, 61 Haitian migrants who were deported from the US to Haiti in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak here. Haiti had already closed its borders last month in hopes of preventing an outbreak of the virus, but the US was allowed to violate that with this deportation.

https://amywilentz.com/deportations-on-the-anniversary-of-toussaints-death/

#AmyWilentz #HaitiHistory #DeportationsToHaiti #USAdeportations #MadisonSmarttBell #HaitiTrilogy

#^Deportations on the Anniversary of Toussaint’s Death

It’s been 217 years since Toussaint died of cold, exposure, and neglect on April 7, 1803, at the Fort de Joux, on a high hilltop in the Doubs, France. He’d been arrested treacherously i…

I've been reading the Haiti Trilogy by Madison Smartt Bell, but out of order. It might be good for the study of writing (Bell is also the author or Narrative Design) to read the books out of order. There are a lot of characters and it can be hard for to keep track of the African, Creole, and French names, like all those similar-seeming names in Lord of the Rings or other fantasy series books. I can see how making a lot of movies and "fanfic" about this trilogy could be great for more unified and accurate views of the world: especially USA foreign policy, immigrant-bashin and "typical Antony Blinken" lying in the course of his work as the Secretary of State for the USA.... At the end of the thrid book one character is sacrificed as "a fanatic" so that soldier in transformatin can save another character. Getting to the second book after the third one made me more sensitive to the creation of "a fanatic": even if the term was used by a character who probably didn't really feel that way about the scarred man...

.> Madison Smartt Bell, author of a three volume series on the Haitian Revolution that begins with the masterful All Souls’ Rising, (all souls being the English translation of Toussaint), wrote this about Toussaint’s end:


.> .> In fact, Toussaint survived a little more than seven months at the Fort de Joux. In the conclusion of his memoir he had written, with a certain insight into Napoleon’s plan for him: “Is it not to cut off someone’s legs and order him to walk? Is it not to cut out his tongue and tell him to talk? Is it not to bury a man alive?” No one wanted to make him a martyr. His bones were lost in a potter’s field, but his spirit, never to be suppressed, helped carry the Haitian Revolution to ultimate victory.


.> Speaking of Haitians being moved around the globe by nonHaitians: today, 61 Haitian migrants who were deported from the US to Haiti in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak here. Haiti had already closed its borders last month in hopes of preventing an outbreak of the virus, but the US was allowed to violate that with this deportation.

https://amywilentz.com/deportations-on-the-anniversary-of-toussaints-death/

#AmyWilentz #HaitiHistory #DeportationsToHaiti #USAdeportations #MadisonSmarttBell #HaitiTrilogy

#^Deportations on the Anniversary of Toussaint’s Death

It’s been 217 years since Toussaint died of cold, exposure, and neglect on April 7, 1803, at the Fort de Joux, on a high hilltop in the Doubs, France. He’d been arrested treacherously i…

I've been reading the Haiti Trilogy by Madison Smartt Bell, but out of order. It might be good for the study of writing (Bell is also the author or Narrative Design) to read the books out of order. There are a lot of characters and it can be hard for to keep track of the African, Creole, and French names, like all those similar-seeming names in Lord of the Rings or other fantasy series books. I can see how making a lot of movies and "fanfic" about this trilogy could be great for more unified and accurate views of the world: especially USA foreign policy, immigrant-bashin and "typical Antony Blinken" lying in the course of his work as the Secretary of State for the USA.... At the end of the thrid book one character is sacrificed as "a fanatic" so that soldier in transformatin can save another character. Getting to the second book after the third one made me more sensitive to the creation of "a fanatic": even if the term was used by a character who probably didn't really feel that way about the scarred man...

.> Madison Smartt Bell, author of a three volume series on the Haitian Revolution that begins with the masterful All Souls’ Rising, (all souls being the English translation of Toussaint), wrote this about Toussaint’s end:


.> .> In fact, Toussaint survived a little more than seven months at the Fort de Joux. In the conclusion of his memoir he had written, with a certain insight into Napoleon’s plan for him: “Is it not to cut off someone’s legs and order him to walk? Is it not to cut out his tongue and tell him to talk? Is it not to bury a man alive?” No one wanted to make him a martyr. His bones were lost in a potter’s field, but his spirit, never to be suppressed, helped carry the Haitian Revolution to ultimate victory.


.> Speaking of Haitians being moved around the globe by nonHaitians: today, 61 Haitian migrants who were deported from the US to Haiti in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak here. Haiti had already closed its borders last month in hopes of preventing an outbreak of the virus, but the US was allowed to violate that with this deportation.

https://amywilentz.com/deportations-on-the-anniversary-of-toussaints-death/

#AmyWilentz #HaitiHistory #DeportationsToHaiti #USAdeportations #MadisonSmarttBell #HaitiTrilogy

#^Deportations on the Anniversary of Toussaint’s Death

It’s been 217 years since Toussaint died of cold, exposure, and neglect on April 7, 1803, at the Fort de Joux, on a high hilltop in the Doubs, France. He’d been arrested treacherously i…

I've been reading the Haiti Trilogy by Madison Smartt Bell, but out of order. It might be good for the study of writing (Bell is also the author or Narrative Design) to read the books out of order. There are a lot of characters and it can be hard for to keep track of the African, Creole, and French names, like all those similar-seeming names in Lord of the Rings or other fantasy series books. I can see how making a lot of movies and "fanfic" about this trilogy could be great for more unified and accurate views of the world: especially USA foreign policy, immigrant-bashin and "typical Antony Blinken" lying in the course of his work as the Secretary of State for the USA.... At the end of the thrid book one character is sacrificed as "a fanatic" so that soldier in transformatin can save another character. Getting to the second book after the third one made me more sensitive to the creation of "a fanatic": even if the term was used by a character who probably didn't really feel that way about the scarred man...

.> Madison Smartt Bell, author of a three volume series on the Haitian Revolution that begins with the masterful All Souls’ Rising, (all souls being the English translation of Toussaint), wrote this about Toussaint’s end:


.> .> In fact, Toussaint survived a little more than seven months at the Fort de Joux. In the conclusion of his memoir he had written, with a certain insight into Napoleon’s plan for him: “Is it not to cut off someone’s legs and order him to walk? Is it not to cut out his tongue and tell him to talk? Is it not to bury a man alive?” No one wanted to make him a martyr. His bones were lost in a potter’s field, but his spirit, never to be suppressed, helped carry the Haitian Revolution to ultimate victory.


.> Speaking of Haitians being moved around the globe by nonHaitians: today, 61 Haitian migrants who were deported from the US to Haiti in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak here. Haiti had already closed its borders last month in hopes of preventing an outbreak of the virus, but the US was allowed to violate that with this deportation.

https://amywilentz.com/deportations-on-the-anniversary-of-toussaints-death/

#AmyWilentz #HaitiHistory #DeportationsToHaiti #USAdeportations #MadisonSmarttBell #HaitiTrilogy

#^Deportations on the Anniversary of Toussaint’s Death

It’s been 217 years since Toussaint died of cold, exposure, and neglect on April 7, 1803, at the Fort de Joux, on a high hilltop in the Doubs, France. He’d been arrested treacherously i…

.> If the US record were not so terrible in Latin America generally, it would be astonishing how backward and destructive the economic and political attitude of the world’s richest, best-armed superpower has been toward this desperate neighbor. After all, throughout its history Haiti has remained reasonably friendly toward the United States: no popular front, no powerful Communist or socialist party, a weak and fractured left, with much of its potential for resistance destroyed at conception by the US Marines’ occupation of the country from 1915 to 1934.

2024/09/11

.> “Three years ago, the Department of State disavowed any desire for another UN peacekeeping mission, apparently acknowledging the fact that Haitians despise UN operations because of past atrocities, massacres, and sexual exploitation of women and children. Plus [the UN force] reintroduced cholera into the country 120 years after it was originally eradicated. Now the US is going for another military intervention [the Kenyan police] that’s not been requested by anyone but the US puppets. The irony: Secretary Blinken does all this while saying the plan is Haitian-led.”


.> “The Blinken visit is just a repeat of the traditional American playbook,” says Daniel Foote, former US special envoy to Haiti:


.> ... many Haitians—and most foreign economic analysts—believe that much of this aid has gone to reinforce and enrich corrupt governments and their business friends, rather than to provide social programs and development for the population. Several of these friends were also darlings of Bill and Hillary Clinton, and benefited from their valuable support.


.> Conille himself had to show up to receive Blinken: the United States is still Haiti’s “best friend” in terms of humanitarian aid and other support, but Haiti’s status as a test tube for ruinous US experiments in democracy is not gaining the Americans any popularity, and Conille did not make a big occasion out of the visit. Neither did Blinken, who traveled through Port-au-Prince via convoys of armored cars from one location secured by US forces to another. A five-hour visit, from landing to takeoff.

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/vance-blinken-haiti-us-aid/

#AmyWilentz #AntonyBlinken #TypicalBlinken #AwfulBlinken #USAinHaiti #PityTheNationHaiti #DanielFoote #DanFoote
#AmbassadorDanielFoote #BillClinton #HillaryClinton

#^JD Vance’s Slanders Are Far From the Worst Thing the US Has Done to Haitians

After years of strenuously ignoring the country's agony, Secretary of State Antony Blinken finally visited Haiti last week. For five hours.

.> If the US record were not so terrible in Latin America generally, it would be astonishing how backward and destructive the economic and political attitude of the world’s richest, best-armed superpower has been toward this desperate neighbor. After all, throughout its history Haiti has remained reasonably friendly toward the United States: no popular front, no powerful Communist or socialist party, a weak and fractured left, with much of its potential for resistance destroyed at conception by the US Marines’ occupation of the country from 1915 to 1934.

2024/09/11

.> “Three years ago, the Department of State disavowed any desire for another UN peacekeeping mission, apparently acknowledging the fact that Haitians despise UN operations because of past atrocities, massacres, and sexual exploitation of women and children. Plus [the UN force] reintroduced cholera into the country 120 years after it was originally eradicated. Now the US is going for another military intervention [the Kenyan police] that’s not been requested by anyone but the US puppets. The irony: Secretary Blinken does all this while saying the plan is Haitian-led.”


.> “The Blinken visit is just a repeat of the traditional American playbook,” says Daniel Foote, former US special envoy to Haiti:


.> ... many Haitians—and most foreign economic analysts—believe that much of this aid has gone to reinforce and enrich corrupt governments and their business friends, rather than to provide social programs and development for the population. Several of these friends were also darlings of Bill and Hillary Clinton, and benefited from their valuable support.


.> Conille himself had to show up to receive Blinken: the United States is still Haiti’s “best friend” in terms of humanitarian aid and other support, but Haiti’s status as a test tube for ruinous US experiments in democracy is not gaining the Americans any popularity, and Conille did not make a big occasion out of the visit. Neither did Blinken, who traveled through Port-au-Prince via convoys of armored cars from one location secured by US forces to another. A five-hour visit, from landing to takeoff.

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/vance-blinken-haiti-us-aid/

#AmyWilentz #AntonyBlinken #TypicalBlinken #AwfulBlinken #USAinHaiti #PityTheNationHaiti #DanielFoote #DanFoote
#AmbassadorDanielFoote #BillClinton #HillaryClinton

#^JD Vance’s Slanders Are Far From the Worst Thing the US Has Done to Haitians

After years of strenuously ignoring the country's agony, Secretary of State Antony Blinken finally visited Haiti last week. For five hours.

.> If the US record were not so terrible in Latin America generally, it would be astonishing how backward and destructive the economic and political attitude of the world’s richest, best-armed superpower has been toward this desperate neighbor. After all, throughout its history Haiti has remained reasonably friendly toward the United States: no popular front, no powerful Communist or socialist party, a weak and fractured left, with much of its potential for resistance destroyed at conception by the US Marines’ occupation of the country from 1915 to 1934.

2024/09/11

.> “Three years ago, the Department of State disavowed any desire for another UN peacekeeping mission, apparently acknowledging the fact that Haitians despise UN operations because of past atrocities, massacres, and sexual exploitation of women and children. Plus [the UN force] reintroduced cholera into the country 120 years after it was originally eradicated. Now the US is going for another military intervention [the Kenyan police] that’s not been requested by anyone but the US puppets. The irony: Secretary Blinken does all this while saying the plan is Haitian-led.”


.> “The Blinken visit is just a repeat of the traditional American playbook,” says Daniel Foote, former US special envoy to Haiti:


.> ... many Haitians—and most foreign economic analysts—believe that much of this aid has gone to reinforce and enrich corrupt governments and their business friends, rather than to provide social programs and development for the population. Several of these friends were also darlings of Bill and Hillary Clinton, and benefited from their valuable support.


.> Conille himself had to show up to receive Blinken: the United States is still Haiti’s “best friend” in terms of humanitarian aid and other support, but Haiti’s status as a test tube for ruinous US experiments in democracy is not gaining the Americans any popularity, and Conille did not make a big occasion out of the visit. Neither did Blinken, who traveled through Port-au-Prince via convoys of armored cars from one location secured by US forces to another. A five-hour visit, from landing to takeoff.

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/vance-blinken-haiti-us-aid/

#AmyWilentz #AntonyBlinken #TypicalBlinken #AwfulBlinken #USAinHaiti #PityTheNationHaiti #DanielFoote #DanFoote
#AmbassadorDanielFoote #BillClinton #HillaryClinton

#^JD Vance’s Slanders Are Far From the Worst Thing the US Has Done to Haitians

After years of strenuously ignoring the country's agony, Secretary of State Antony Blinken finally visited Haiti last week. For five hours.

.> If the US record were not so terrible in Latin America generally, it would be astonishing how backward and destructive the economic and political attitude of the world’s richest, best-armed superpower has been toward this desperate neighbor. After all, throughout its history Haiti has remained reasonably friendly toward the United States: no popular front, no powerful Communist or socialist party, a weak and fractured left, with much of its potential for resistance destroyed at conception by the US Marines’ occupation of the country from 1915 to 1934.

2024/09/11

.> “Three years ago, the Department of State disavowed any desire for another UN peacekeeping mission, apparently acknowledging the fact that Haitians despise UN operations because of past atrocities, massacres, and sexual exploitation of women and children. Plus [the UN force] reintroduced cholera into the country 120 years after it was originally eradicated. Now the US is going for another military intervention [the Kenyan police] that’s not been requested by anyone but the US puppets. The irony: Secretary Blinken does all this while saying the plan is Haitian-led.”


.> “The Blinken visit is just a repeat of the traditional American playbook,” says Daniel Foote, former US special envoy to Haiti:


.> ... many Haitians—and most foreign economic analysts—believe that much of this aid has gone to reinforce and enrich corrupt governments and their business friends, rather than to provide social programs and development for the population. Several of these friends were also darlings of Bill and Hillary Clinton, and benefited from their valuable support.


.> Conille himself had to show up to receive Blinken: the United States is still Haiti’s “best friend” in terms of humanitarian aid and other support, but Haiti’s status as a test tube for ruinous US experiments in democracy is not gaining the Americans any popularity, and Conille did not make a big occasion out of the visit. Neither did Blinken, who traveled through Port-au-Prince via convoys of armored cars from one location secured by US forces to another. A five-hour visit, from landing to takeoff.

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/vance-blinken-haiti-us-aid/

#AmyWilentz #AntonyBlinken #TypicalBlinken #AwfulBlinken #USAinHaiti #PityTheNationHaiti #DanielFoote #DanFoote
#AmbassadorDanielFoote #BillClinton #HillaryClinton

#^JD Vance’s Slanders Are Far From the Worst Thing the US Has Done to Haitians

After years of strenuously ignoring the country's agony, Secretary of State Antony Blinken finally visited Haiti last week. For five hours.

.> If the US record were not so terrible in Latin America generally, it would be astonishing how backward and destructive the economic and political attitude of the world’s richest, best-armed superpower has been toward this desperate neighbor. After all, throughout its history Haiti has remained reasonably friendly toward the United States: no popular front, no powerful Communist or socialist party, a weak and fractured left, with much of its potential for resistance destroyed at conception by the US Marines’ occupation of the country from 1915 to 1934.

2024/09/11

.> “Three years ago, the Department of State disavowed any desire for another UN peacekeeping mission, apparently acknowledging the fact that Haitians despise UN operations because of past atrocities, massacres, and sexual exploitation of women and children. Plus [the UN force] reintroduced cholera into the country 120 years after it was originally eradicated. Now the US is going for another military intervention [the Kenyan police] that’s not been requested by anyone but the US puppets. The irony: Secretary Blinken does all this while saying the plan is Haitian-led.”


.> “The Blinken visit is just a repeat of the traditional American playbook,” says Daniel Foote, former US special envoy to Haiti:


.> ... many Haitians—and most foreign economic analysts—believe that much of this aid has gone to reinforce and enrich corrupt governments and their business friends, rather than to provide social programs and development for the population. Several of these friends were also darlings of Bill and Hillary Clinton, and benefited from their valuable support.


.> Conille himself had to show up to receive Blinken: the United States is still Haiti’s “best friend” in terms of humanitarian aid and other support, but Haiti’s status as a test tube for ruinous US experiments in democracy is not gaining the Americans any popularity, and Conille did not make a big occasion out of the visit. Neither did Blinken, who traveled through Port-au-Prince via convoys of armored cars from one location secured by US forces to another. A five-hour visit, from landing to takeoff.

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/vance-blinken-haiti-us-aid/

#AmyWilentz #AntonyBlinken #TypicalBlinken #AwfulBlinken #USAinHaiti #PityTheNationHaiti #DanielFoote #DanFoote
#AmbassadorDanielFoote #BillClinton #HillaryClinton

#^JD Vance’s Slanders Are Far From the Worst Thing the US Has Done to Haitians

After years of strenuously ignoring the country's agony, Secretary of State Antony Blinken finally visited Haiti last week. For five hours.