For the majority of the people it is a difficult place to live. That's a reality that we can't ignore. But there is also great beauty to it.
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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.Edwidge Danticat
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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So at least the people who have another voice and people who are interested in other things can have a place to put their information and be heard.
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To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence.
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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.
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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.
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