Title........: Aristide and the endless revolution
Runtime......: 82 minutes (main feature) + 23 minutes (interview)
Genre........: Documentary
Languages....: English
Extras.......: Interview, trailer, documents
_____________________________________________________________Summary__
An hour south of Miami is the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation,
Haiti. In 1991 its citizens elected a former Roman Catholic priest
and exponent of liberation theology, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, as
president. Popular among Haiti's poor and disenfranchised, Aristide
become a target of Haiti's business interests (and the political
parties that served those interests) because of his daring policies
which tried to raise the standard of living for the huge majority of
Haitians. During his second term in office, his government came under
increasing pressure from many sides and by 2004 political violence
had escalated sharply. On February 29, 2004, Aristide and his family
left Haiti on a US-dispatched airplane -- according to Aristide,
against his will; the US claims with his full cooperation.
Nicolas Rossier's powerful and informative documentary focuses on
Aristide's later years as president, as he struggled to fulfill his
promises of reform in the face of mounting domestic opposition
(driven in large part by business and military interests) and,
simultaneously, an increasingly hostile relationship with the United
States.
Featuring an exclusive interview with Aristide from his exile in
South Africa as well as the views of a wide range of supporters
and critics including US Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noriega,
Colin Powell, and Noam Chomsky, and intermixed with searing glimpes
inside strife-torn Haiti, Aristide and the Endless Revolution offers
a moving testimony to the Haitian peoples' struggle against oppression
and exposes the tangled web of hope, deceit, and political violence that
brought the world's first black republic to its knees.
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File Size....: 635 MB
Frames.......: 544X304
Video Codec..: XviD
Audio Codec..: MP3 @ 128 kb/s (stereo) VBR