PRO-ARISTIDE PRIEST ARRESTED (Rev. Gérard Jean-Juste - again)

[Mika]

PRO-ARISTIDE PRIEST ARRESTED
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/americas/12152654.htm
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PORT-AU-PRINCE -- Authorities have again arrested Rev. Gérard Jean-Juste, a fiery priest whose sermons on social justice electrify worshippers who see him as Haiti's future president, his lawyer and supporters said Friday.

They said the priest, a supporter of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was arrested Friday at Port-au-Prince airport as he returned home from Miami, where he led a protest against the interim government and U.N. peacekeeping force installed after Aristide fled a rebellion in February 2004.

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Haiti's interim government earlier this year accused Jean-Juste of inciting violence and hiding pro-Aristide gunmen and jailed him for weeks before freeing him amid an international outcry that he be released if authorities could not produce evidence.

I thought that this related to this thread, (US backed) Council: Bar Aristide Party From Election , but is big news that warrants its own thread.

I have heard Gérard Jean-Juste speak in Miami and this man absolutely and resolutely condemns violence by all sides.

:argh:

[K-W]

1. The title Pro-Aristide is ugly propaganda.

People who support the return of the elected government are democrats and should be labled so.

[Mika]

2. What would one expect from the Miami Herald?

It (the M-H) is dominated by rightwingnut Cuban "exiles" who ooze hatred for social justice and liberation from Uncle Sam's stranglehold on Caribbean islands.

[K-W]

3. Ugly Propaganda. EOM

[mom cat]

4. The arrest of Gerard Jean-Juste is an outrage! US style democracy

means that Bush appoints the new ruler.
Thanks for the post on this!...reccomended!