Also, people are not often aware of the way the United States' policies influence what happens in places like Haiti or El Salvador or Nicaragua. Or in Columbia right now.
From Edwidge Danticat
You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city.
To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence.
There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness.
That's whatever news topic, whatever political process any country is going through - whenever they are in the news, that's when they exist. If you don't see them they don't exist.
Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.
People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it.
People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I don't think that's limited to Haiti.
People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places.
Or even the state of Florida, where they are prepared to execute children. Umm, well, you hope that at least that there is something there to be claimed.
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