I am an avid watcher of Wide Angle but I was appauled by this documentary.

I watched it recently on a friend’s vcr. The filmmaker spends 10 minutes filming one of the leaders of the coup and presented him as the candidate of hope for Haiti.

I believe that the film is a propaganda piece for the people who organized the coup against Aristide.

A president was elected five years ago by an overwhelming majority of Haitians with a mandate of five years. There would not have been such chaos in Haiti if the opposition had accepted the Caricom’s (Caribbean Community) power-sharing plan agreed by Aristide in the beginning of February 2004.

Instead the international community let a gang of well-armed thugs take over half of Haiti and pressured Aristide to leave. This was a slap to democracy and to the history of the first black republic that was learning a new language for the first time. With Aristide and his movement, a process was taking root after 200 years of violence, murders and 33 coups d’etat.

What is going on in Haiti is not so complicated. A good majority of Haitians don’t understand why their leader was sent in a plane to Central Africa.

Even if people are allowed not to agree with Aristide’s policy or Lavalas’ progressive agenda, they need to accept one crucial fact which is that Haiti went to chaos for at least three years following the coup.

The ones who continue to fingerpoint Aristide for his bad governance are guilty today for having supported the coup or at least not denounce it in time. I sense that some of the ones who cheered Guy Philippe in 2004 as their freedom fighter feel extremely uneasy today.

Today things are a b it calmer in Haiti but the Lavalas party is still being oppressed and Aristide (its leader) is still not allowed to come back from exile.

Not sure what Ms. Regan think about that??