{"id":19756,"date":"2011-03-21T10:17:27","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T17:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=19756"},"modified":"2011-03-21T10:17:27","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T17:17:27","slug":"aristide-returns-to-haiti-ahead-of-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2011\/03\/21\/aristide-returns-to-haiti-ahead-of-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Aristide Returns to Haiti Ahead of Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-032111\/2011_03_21_ives.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-032111\/2011_03_21_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/a\/p\/ap\/20110318\/capt.36eb79b1270d495f9b0075444d563c21-36eb79b1270d495f9b0075444d563c21-0.jpg?x=400&#038;y=269&#038;q=85&#038;sig=2UpmNbZs.XkKTi2kUUd_Cg--\" alt=\"Aristide\" \/>On Friday, former Haitian president Jean Bernard-Aristide arrived in Haiti, ending his seven-year exile to South Africa, to attend the country\u2019s presidential elections on March 20. Upon arriving in Port-au-Prince, Aristide was accompanied his wife, Mildred, Pacifica journalists Margaret Prescod and Amy Goodman, US attorney Ira Kurzban, and actor Danny Glover among others. The Haitian government issued the former president a passport on February 7. However, the United States has been pressuring both the South African and the Haitian governments to delay Aristide\u2019s return until after the Haitian elections are complete. Last November&#8217;s elections in Haiti were declared void after being tainted by fraud, voter intimidation and lack of organization. Following that, the United States has expressed concern that Aristide\u2019s presence would destabilize the Haitian elections. Under the Haitian constitution, Aristide is ineligible to run for election a third time. Rather than attempting to influence the elections, the former president has said that he will instead teach and support educational community projects. Aristide has criticized the Haitian electoral council\u2019s decision to exclude his political party, Fanmi Lavalas, from presidential elections. Lavalas supporters have denounced the council\u2019s reasons for the party\u2019s exclusion, and some have boycotted the elections in protest. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Kim Ives, journalist with Haiti Liberte newspaper, and a host on WBAI Pacifica Radio in New York<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, former Haitian president Jean Bernard-Aristide arrived in Haiti, ending his seven-year exile to South Africa, to attend the country\u2019s presidential elections on March 20. Upon arriving in Port-au-Prince, Aristide was accompanied his wife, Mildred, Pacifica journalists Margaret Prescod and Amy Goodman, US attorney Ira Kurzban, and actor Danny Glover among others. The Haitian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}