Chairman and colleagues. for one brief. shining moment. the flame of democracy burned brightly in Haiti in December 1990. Seven months later. it was extinguished by repression. For the first time in the history of Haiti. the country had a freely elected president. whose tenure. last September. was crushed by the forces of Duvalierism and Macouteism. The Haitian people seeking asylum in the United States do not flee a Communist country. they do flee repression in their own land. I will speak about that later. Maybe they are guilty of economic reftgceism. but it is a flight from destitution and desperation.
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