Making Sense of Complexity

[bcholmes]

Background facts: last film festival, I watched a film called Ghosts of Cité Soleil, which I felt was pretty one-sided in its criticism of Aristide. Kevin Pina has recently made a film called Haiti: We Must Kill The Bandits, which seems to take the "other perspective".

This blog entry by Michael Deibert offers a perspective on some of those figures. Deibert's opinions on the people involved seem more consistent with Ghosts (which he says he has not seen), but he writes persuasively. I find some of Deibert's other blog entries less compelling. Nonetheless, I've ordered a copy of his book.

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[bcholmes.livejournal.com]

I don't know that I have a good answer for that.

After my first trip there, in 2002, I just developed an unexplainable love for the place. Because I'd been there, I very aware during (and affected by) the two big events in 2004 -- the coup in January/February, and the flood that spring.

After my second and third trips, that love intensified.