On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away. Edwidge Danticat Read Quote
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. Edwidge Danticat Read Quote
And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934. Edwidge Danticat Read Quote
Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up – with that heroic Delta force – people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment. Edwidge Danticat Read Quote
Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to grasp what is happening and I am still trying to understand and to reach family back home. Edwidge Danticat Read Quote
In fact that is the struggle that most Americans – As rich as this country is, most Americans are very limited in their interaction with the world, unless the world comes to us in a very shocking way. Edwidge Danticat Read Quote
In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States. Edwidge Danticat Read Quote
In terms of the idea of long-term occupation – I have been reading a little bit more about this period – and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren’t aware of. Edwidge Danticat Read Quote
More and more people are able to access information – thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago. Edwidge Danticat Read Quote
